10+ YEARS. NO SHORTCUTS.
JackMonx is Giacomo Monti — swimmer, then triathlete, then 10+ years inside calisthenics. The plans you buy are not theory: they are the order in which one body actually learned.
“Training is not just about training and body. It is about rhythm, balance, mind, soul and spirit.”
It started in water. Years of competitive swimming, then triathlon — a school of work ethic, resilience and patience with long efforts. Then a forced stop: end of 2013 and most of 2014 without doing the one thing that mattered, moving.
At the end of 2014 calisthenics began, with conditioning before skills. The first handstand came in 2015, and with it five years of near-daily practice: mobility, compression, straight-arm strength, press to handstand, straddle and full planche — achieved progressively, without injury.
Ten-plus years later that archive has become a method, documented every week without interruption. Sixty thousand people now follow the process, not the person — this is deliberate. The work has to stand without a face in front of it.
Follow the gesture. The result is a consequence.
HOW THE KNOW-HOW WAS BUILT
- 2006—2012Water
Competitive swimming from a very young age. First medals, first lesson: results are built in silence, lap after lap.
- 2012—2013Triathlon
Racing taught work ethic, team, resilience and pacing — the discipline of long efforts that cannot be faked.
- 2013—2014The pause
A year and a half without training. The absence of movement clarified what the body was for.
- End of 2014The start
Calisthenics begins. Months of conditioning and preparation before the first skill — foundations before tricks.
- 2015First handstand
The first real handstand. The centre of balance of the whole practice, and the entry point of the method.
- 2015—2020Density
Five years of near-daily practice: wrist and shoulder mobility, hollow body, compression, straight-arm strength.
- 2020—2022Skills
Press to handstand, straddle planche, full planche. Achieved progressively and without injury.
- 2021First written guide
The practice becomes teachable: the first structured beginner guide — mindset, mobility, technique, plan.
- 202610+ years
10+ years of continuous practice, documented weekly. 60,000 people follow the process, not the person.
FOUR NON-NEGOTIABLES
Foundations first
Wrist and shoulder mobility, compression, hollow body. The unglamorous work that makes skills safe.
Never skip the warm-up
A good warm-up is already half of your core training. Skipping it is refusing to refuel the engine.
Go small to go big
Planned sessions, honest execution, small increments. Volume without form is a debt paid later.
The obstacle is the way
Plateaus and weak links are the instruction. Progress arrives slowly and never leaves.
THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE
The point of density. The real moment. Not repeatable.
What continues after the event. Invisible stratification.
What remains legible. A trace, not noise.
Reduction to the essential. No superstructure.