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Training tips!
Chantelle:
With regards to muscle up and pull up issues, I'd like to say that as a student, I am sitting a lot hunched over. I believe this makes my back muscles lazy, and contributes to me being unable to doing a pull up. I'm pretty strong, but when attempting to do a pull up, I rely too much on my "shrugging" muscles to over compensate for weak shoulder/latius dorsi or whatever muscles squeeze my shoulder blades together. I feel these should be as strong as pecs, because they are the opposite muscles. Back strengthening might be that chick's only problem as well.
A.E.:
I'm such a wuss. I was practicing the landings as described in the apk tutorial and I got tired doing them, even. I was into pk for a long time but then I took a hiatus because of school and work. Now I'm playing basketball and I want to do this, too, again, except focus on fundamentals instead of vaults. I really really want to learn how to jump and land properly, never learned that. Thanks everyone in this thread for providing assistance :)
KaelSeoras:
--- Quote from: Phytolith on April 24, 2008, 06:01:43 AM ---The basic push-up:
Ok, you say, I know how to do a push up, right? Well, I've found that most people new to training Parkour have a lot of “creativity” in their push-up forms. If you do a push-up wrong, you're not building strength. A push-up is usually thought of as an arm exercise, but it really works your core. Start lying on the ground, with your hips, chest and chin touching the floor. Your hands should be right under your shoulders or very slightly outside of your shoulders. Push, using your arms, in a smooth movement until they are straight. Throughout the push-up, your chin, shoulders, hips and toes must all be in a straight line (this is plank position). Slowly let your body back down until you're flat on the floor again. Did any part of your body hit the ground before the other parts? If it did, this means you're cheating.
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This shouldn't cause the wrists to hurt, should it?
TXABI:
--- Quote from: Muse_of_Fire on April 27, 2008, 08:00:39 AM ---The Hollow Rock
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If you need any more tutorials, check out Fitness>Exercise descriptions on the main APK page. :)
Incidentally, if any of these are tough for you, we can always post up progressions in this thread.
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Hello and thanks for the tutorials I have been of great benefit
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TXABI:
--- Quote from: Phytolith on December 14, 2009, 03:20:50 PM ---"Struggle-ups" are a real good description of what I've managed to do for a muscle up. Usually I manage to get one elbow up in the air above the bar and one elbow down (which is a terrible boob-smasher, btw), and then a good hefty kip and I can get all the way up. The next step will be to switch which arm is up and which is down, and then, eventually, to getting both arms up evenly. In your case, working on dips and pullups will definitely help, and I strongly second Brandee's comment about kipping. My only comment would be, rather than the dip machine, do you have access to parallel bars, or, better yet, rings? They can help strengthen a lot of the stability and control muscles of the shoulder than will help you get over the bar.
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Fortunately I have the muscles of the shoulders well developed and strong
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