Yes - why not? As long as you can anchor one end (or just stand on the middle part) - be it with your feet or some object, the imagination is the limit. You can do most of of the movements you do with weights - also press, rows etc. It’s not the same, but it will keep you in the game until the gyms reopen.
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Brozah you can appreciate how squatting is a bitch ahahah
I think that for presses I’ll stick to banded push-ups, dips and HSPU, it should cover it
For the back pull-ups and fat man pull-ups, face-pulls and straight-arms pulldowns. I’ve tried some other kind with bands but it was veryyy meh
I don’t know what the situation is like in France or in your area specifically, but I bet gyms will reopen sooner than you think. I doubt your training will suffer significantly But I’ve been there. I remember panicking earlier this year when I had almost nothing. Definitely get a pull up bar though. When my city shut down they closed off all playgrounds.
For sure. Was jazzing about with a mate in the gym yesterday who almost looks like an Olympic weightlifter while squatting low-bar and has problems stopping at parallel. For kicks we found the stance when I can emulate his depth (high bar for me) and even with just the bar on the ascent I felt the femur and the hip capsule rub shoulders as it were.
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Weird pickup line, but ok…
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Hmm, not sure if I am the best to give pointers, but a couple of things hit my eye. The first is that the width of your grip appears to have your elbows inside your hands a little. Ideal position would have your elbows under your hands.
Second is that the press appears to be slow from the very start, like the leg drive is not giving you as much as it could on the first part of the lift. Not sure it is a matter of depth, might be more a matter of getting your mind in the right place to actually “explode” upwards. Gets harder to do as you increase reps, but when failing a single I find it is often just because my head is in the wrong place and it causes me to be lazy on the leg drive.
There could be other reasons that are hard to discern from a video. Make sure you have shitloads of air in your chest and push it into your lats (if that makes sense) to get super tight. You need your whole body to be like an iron statue before you even start moving.
Oh, and how about suicide grip? Not comfortable with that?
I share in his curse, I could relate to his struggles
See, you know things!
I tried a bit wider this time, but apparently it’s not good ahah
Yeah I tried to push hard with the legs, but probably as much as I could. Probably didn’t help that my legs are crippled from my leg session the day before ahahah. You must be onto something with the mind, because I should have passed 90.
Well i’m training for O-lift so I try to stay as close to the real deal. Helps with my wrists etc
Oh and if I could borrow you a bit more: do you have any tips for muscle-ups, strict or kipping? I think I have the strength to (my heaviest pullup with full rom was with 40kgs) , but I never managed them!
Oh, yeah, well, I would definitely put at least a day between leg work and push presses. Other helpful advice includes, but is not limited to: be angry, chew gum, listen to violent rage music, find shirts that match the shorts. Are those powerlifting shoes on your feet, btw?
Talking MUs is kinda tough, because there are so many parts to it. You probably do indeed have the strength, but do you have the SPEED? That is the first thing I would worry about. Can you pull yourself up to a bar so violently that you can slam your chest on it? Or if neutral grip, your shoulders?
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Indeed this is good stuff. This was the most brutal leg day I ever did. And I wasn’t supposed to do this hard, or do push press that day, but since gyms are closing, I wanted to say goodbye with panache. I tried weightlifting shoes this time indeed instead of my chucks. Don’t know if that helped.
Speed yeah. Supinated, I can bang at least 10 with super speed and banging my lower chest hard into it. Pronated, I have a very hard time touching the bar. Probably my long arms or shoulder mobility. The end range of a pronated is all arms to me. I’ll try pronated to slam into the bar. Yeah when I was doing crossfit, I had a hard time grasping the turnover from a pull-up to a dip. But at the same time I’ve seen guys do strict muscle-up “slowly”, or even once a guy doing it in 30-10-30 fashion
I should probably mention that I cannot even figure out how to kip, but I remember when I was learning how to do it a bit of a gentle swinging helps a lot. The idea is to time it so that as you start the swing backwards, then you start the pull. You are not pulling yourself straight up, you are actually trying to pull yourself BACK. Think like 10 degrees tilting backwards. When you understand this concept, you understand that it isn’t really a transition from a pull to a dip…it is about converting that backwards energy - while twisting your wrists forward - into forward energy. Speaking of twisting your wrists, it cannot be understated that you have to figure out the right amount of grip. Too little and you won’t be able to pull with enough speed. Too much and you will be fighting against friction during the transition, which is basically losing power. Sometimes the bar itself can make things easier or harder as a result, because it can easily mess with the friction.
Kipping, if you can do it, should help you get started. The reason kipping works so well is because it totally exaggerates that backwards part of the pull by making your body start in the exact opposite position, and flexed like a bowstring. But your goal should ultimately be to not require that motion. Initially by figuring out how to get that flex without the kip, and then by figuring out how to not even need the flex.
Anyway, that is probably already too much info. I think you need to figure each bit out in sequence.
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Thank you. Yeah I’m horrible at kipping, never mastered it. Many years of strict work (never used a tiny bit of leg whatsoever) are engrained in my brain. in crossifit I was doing pull-ups and toes to bar strict ahah…
You are better off trying to avoid the kip anyway in the long run. Kipping MUs are not real MUs.
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So i did my first muscl-up yesterday! Yes it has some kipping, but I just watched a couple of vid before trying, they both showed the same tips and cues, and that strict ones were super hard (and I probably can’t right now) but yeah my right wrist tooka beating lol. I did then maybe 5 more but nothing crazy
Otherwise, school is amazing. Monay we did quite a bit of cardio, positioning/speed/agility drills with bands or stuff, shuffles etc that reminded me a lot of the work I used to do in US football. And a shit load of planks and various isometric core exercises. I was doing one and my main teacher approached “let’s see if the big guy can hold” and started kicked in my belly full of rhum from the day before ahahahah
@Voxel @Frank_C I definitely am sure I’ll be able to destroy my legs. Yesterday we started with dancing and Low Impact Aerobic, it was fun lol! Then some CAF (I don’t know how we say in english, but you know, the group courses girls take that are all about abs and glutes) and oh BOY! I wasn’t ready! Bodyweight squats and lunges, and glutes exercises straight for 50 minutes without a pause, with various tempo, triple or 10 contractions in the bottom etc… I reached failure many times, I couldn’t keep up ahahah total leg destruction! i relaly need to work on my endurance and endurance strength. And more circuits (always sucked at that)
This morning, 2 hours of hypertrophy, then 2 hours of Olympic weightlifting. I don’t even want to ttrain tonight i’ll just sleep ahahah. I’m sure my bands will be plenty enough.
Other than that, well I felt I had never been happier (perhaps the first time happy?) and free than this summer, and now, damn, that I’m in this school, I really am living my best life… Coaches and teachers are amazing (Marc Vouillot the “father of French powerlifting” with a beltless 705kgs total in 1980 at a 80kgs BW… French champion in bodybuilding, Olympic lifting etc) studenst are super cool there’s a great spirit and camarederie, I fell in love with a girl lol
Honestly I just want to go to bed to start again tomorrow, even thought it will be 2 hours of cardio ahahah
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Looking back a few months to where you were, it’s been absolutely amazing to see the change in you.
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Yeha thanks! It really helped talking to you guys. I’m aware I’ve always been a weird, unhappy kid, but I don’t know, I guess there finally was a “click” in my head
Oooooh 60 posts on your log ahahah I have some reading for tonight!
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Don’t worry man, that’s like 2 training sessions and a whole lot of talking.
How did you not false-grip that…
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The tutos I saw, the guys weren’t. And when I was doing crossfit I was trying to do their weird false grip on the wrists, caused me pain but that’s it ahah
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Disgusting