Athlete uses calisthenics to elevate fitness
Wyatt Elias is reaching a peak fitness level without hitting the gym. He uses calisthenics to heighten strength, balance and physique.
“It’s definitely a fun sport and I surprise myself every day,” he said.
Wyatt, 21, of Washington State enjoys being able to do his workouts almost anywhere since calisthenics exercises mainly uses one’s own body weight.
“I’ve done weightlifting in the past, but it was for sports,” he said. “It was always a pain to either go to the gym or somewhere else to start the workout. And making it that much easier to start the workout has just been the best part for me.”
Wyatt employs what’s at hand if he’s out and about.
“If I see a bench or something that looks cool, I’ll try some stuff on it,” he said. “I definitely look at random items and be like, I could do handstand push-ups off that.”
Wyatt can also be seen walking on his hands.
“I made a video of that actually,” he said. “I was driving past the campus and I was like, you know what, let’s just record here. It was raining and I like the rain. It was just a mood I was in.”
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Wyatt is working while he saves up enough to resume his education.
“I did two years of college and I have my transfer degree now,” he said. “I got my two-year. That was the cheap part. And now the four-year, I have to build up a little bit more money before I get into that.”
Wyatt’s career path is technology oriented.
“Computer science, so coding for the most part,” he said. “It’s gotten a lot more competitive since I first had an interest in it. It’s quite a bit harder to find a job for it now than it used to be. AI does take the jobs. It makes coding easier, so it’s like in the art world, how when AI started to be able to make art, it made it more difficult to find jobs for that. Well, AI can also code. You can design one that can just code for you.”
Wyatt, who hasn’t ruled out doing content creation full-time, isn’t aiming for his social media followers to obtain something in particular from viewing his posts.
“I don’t really have a goal for that,” he said. “I started at the beginning of this year (2025) posting calisthenics. It’s not even really comparable how much I’ve grown because I did YouTube and stuff before, but it was just gaming videos. But my channel has really blown and I just made a full switch over to fitness.”
Wyatt does want to continue to expand his reach.
“I hope to make a community that would be able to follow me,” he said. “That’s why I try to make my videos more like interactions, show more of me than anything else. It’s a personal level than just look at this guy who’s strong.”
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Wyatt’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@littlew1687
