ToxicBug
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What's your height/weight?My best was 225 for 8 reps clean all the way to the chest last week. I can barely do 3 clean this week... tried on 3 different days already
Maybe I need to get on other muscle groups for a bit.
What's your height/weight?My best was 225 for 8 reps clean all the way to the chest last week. I can barely do 3 clean this week... tried on 3 different days already
Maybe I need to get on other muscle groups for a bit.
Don't care about others, your goals are your own. You are training, that alone is already better than 98% of the population.
What's your height/weight?
185cm or about 5'11 and 92-93 kg, dunno whats that in pounds.
TW how hard was it for you to get to a muscle up? Tis my personal objective this year
Cool, 2 plates for 8 reps is not that bad for someone who weighs 205 lbs. You can definitely do more, though. I'm the same height (185 cm is 6'1" BTW), but I'm 35 lbs lighter than you and I do 10 reps.
BTW, I'm also interested in muscle ups. I saw a trainer at my gym doing one last week, I liked it. I think I can do it, but I'm too scared. Any advice?
TWhy would you be scared of a muscle up, there isn't much that can go wrong really Maybe it's just me cause I've been into gymnastics for a long time and have done all sorts of crazy shit on and off the bar.
As for advice, well I know the techincal bit of it but I've never been able to do it yet. You gotta be good at dips and chinups. Mostly chinups though because the more inertia you build up at start the easier it will be. The trickiest part is the transition from hanging to "standing" on the bar/flip of the wrists/elbows up.
I know I'll get there eventually, chinups is my fav exercise.
Is that you?A LOT can go wrong with muscle-ups. You can easily get a shoulder rotator cuff injury if you're not careful.
Chin-ups and dips won't help that much. What you guys are probably struggling with is the transition and that's 100% shoulder strength. Start doing hand-stand pushups or strict presses to build your strength there. Alternatively you can build up to a real muscle-up by doing:
1. Kipping muscle-up
2. false-grip muscle-up aided by leg push
3. strict false-grip muscle up
Final result should look like this:
TW: what's your snatch PR ?
Is that you?
My gym doesn't have a chin-up bar, they only have wide, medium, and neutral grip handles which are all angled. They don't have rings either. I'm assuming that this makes it more difficult. Should I try kipping muscle-up or go slow? I'm afraid that I'll lose my balance and do a faceplant or something since I've never done any gymnastics. I do strict presses, 145 lbs for 5 reps (military press).