Comments on Start Bodyweight Training: Muscle up progression

Good tutorial, also a bit discouraging too. I am v...

2014-11-21T15:19:13.876+00:00

Good tutorial, also a bit discouraging too. I am very weak and uncoordinated and after reading this I am not sure I will ever be able to do the skill. I have been doing bodyweight training mostly pushups, pullups, and rope climbs for over four years two hours a day 4-6 days a week and was unable to do a russian dip or an archer pullup which I am trying to do now. One thing I wish trainers would stop saying that they come from distance runner backgrounds and therefore getting strong is especially hard. Your strength is determined by your genetics, not what sports you decide to do. I have recently started doing weighted pullups (40lbs) in a desperate attempt to get stronger because I know that is my issue. Do you think it is realistic for me to get this skill My arms are only 13" (used to be 11" before the calisthenics training) so I am still skinny and weak. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

How would the muscle up fit into the regimen of th...

2014-09-12T04:12:40.710+01:00

How would the muscle up fit into the regimen of this stie?

No, but I'm afrequent visitor to the Canaries,...

2014-04-01T01:28:41.478+01:00

No, but I'm afrequent visitor to the Canaries, and I go training there often!

Nice blog!!!! I have found it through a comment T ...

2014-04-01T01:02:28.564+01:00

Nice blog!!!! I have found it through a comment T the GMB fitness facebook. Just out of curiosity, Do you live in Gran Canaria??

Thank you very much for this awesome progression. ...

2014-01-16T20:13:24.191+00:00

Thank you very much for this awesome progression. I'm still far too achieve it but this gives me a very good idea what I'll have to do.

Thanks for the answer! You´re right, obviously, ab...

2014-01-11T20:18:52.467+00:00

Thanks for the answer! You´re right, obviously, about the thing beeing or not for me. Definitively will try the negatives for dips.
Sorry, when I said L-sits, I mean pull-ups with legs outstretched. When a reach 8 8 8 in wide grip pull-ups and couldn´t do archer, I figured other ways to increase strenght. First, half-bented legs, now outstretched. Still, no archer. Perhaps negatives too is a way?

There's no reason this might not be the thing ...

2014-01-11T18:28:41.425+00:00

There's no reason this might not be the thing for you... I'm a 43 year old guy with no explosiveness nor fast twitch fibre whatsoever (I was a long distance runner for many years), and I managed to achieve all this...
If you cannot do modified russian dips, start with negatives, lowering yourself over 3 to 5s.
There's no correlation between L-sits and archer pull ups, so I fail to see the connection. If you cannot do archer pull ups yet, go back in the pull up progression ( http://www.startbodyweight.com/p/pull-up-progression.html ), and slowly build up to them.

Yeah, muscle ups is a very strong achievement, eve...

2014-01-11T13:56:14.427+00:00

Yeah, muscle ups is a very strong achievement, even in a psychological way. Good to see a progression to it, congratulations. However, it seems I have a week link in the basic exercises. Can do 15 forward leg dips, but I feel unable to make the arms swing up and down in the bottom position of russian, like you do in the video. Not even close. Do you suggest some form of learning that? I also can do right now 3x6 l-sits with legs outstretched, but no archer pullup. Maybe the thing is not for me ...