Nick Gordon
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« on: November 30, 2008, 06:16:15 PM » |
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I cannot seem to do them. I'm starting to develop balance going down on my right leg, but I get about 75% there on my left, and then fall back about 3/4 a foot onto my butt. When I do manage to make to the bottom, I know there's no way I can force myself back up with one leg. I can keep my legs in the air fine, once I'm at the bottom I have no problems. I just can't get back up. I know there's such a thing called 'deck pistols' where you go to the bottom, roll back onto your tailbone, and roll back up and use the momentum to push yourself up. That would work wondrously for me, if I could get back up. I get about halfway up on the deck pistol, and then I'm stopped. Is there anything I can do to increase my leg strength in that area? Because as I've started doing pistols more dilligently I've noticed that my running's become easier too, which are my two worst skills.
I can do all the exercises (save the plance, omfg that's hard), except for pistols. Any tips to get through these, or are they just a skill you have to work at and eventually the power comes to you.
I appreciate and thank any help, and I know there's not much that can be done about running, except to run, but I've never been a good runner, I'll just have to work through that with perseverance.
~Nick
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Patrick Yang
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« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2008, 06:34:28 PM » |
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Scale it down while working up the strength to do full pistols. Try doing just negatives (just going down), do more squats (less with good form > more with bad form), the "deck pistols" you were talking about, or other type of assisted pistols (like using your other foot just a bit), sideways monkeys, box jumps, precisions, and so forth.
As for the balance part of pistols, do more rail work. Balance on rails, forward, backward, holding one leg, along the rail, orthogonal to the rail, rail precisions, rail squats, and eventually rail pistols. Just balance on one foot when you're not doing anything, like at line at the sto'.
tl;dr: train moar.
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Chris Salvato
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« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2008, 06:35:53 PM » |
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Check it: http://beastskills.com/Pistol.htmBeastskills is an invaluable resource for bodyweight skills. You will likely like the Band or doorway method -- my preferred method is heavy weighted full ROM back squats...but Jim lays out a lot of nice tips on that site to help if u cant do squats because you dont have access to a gym or something. |
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Corey Cedeno
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« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2008, 09:05:20 AM » |
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Chris' post is great. He's updated quite a bit since I was there last.
When you're doing your Single Legged Squat - Deck, add more momentum to your roll. The faster you do your roll, the less stress it'll put your leg. Keep at it and take away less and less momentum from your roll as you go along until you can graduate to a full Pistol.
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David Boyle
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« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2008, 02:26:23 PM » |
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Buy the "Naked Warrior". A book by Pavel Tstatsouline, the man who brought the kettlebell mainstream to the US.
It goes into the nuts and bolts of pistols and other various methods of bodyweight cals and movements.
Great read and must have imo.
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Steve Low
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« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2008, 06:56:42 PM » |
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Grab a doorway for balance. Slowly phase it out.
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