I JUST DID 2 CHIN-UPS SLOWLY WITH NO HELP!!!

Way to go!

Yay! Way to go!

Those aren't easy! I'm still working on it! amazing work

WTG!

Nice! Chin ups are far beyond me right now so I definitely appreciate what a victory that is

so impressed with your chins. i'm still doing negatives from the top end and cable pulls from the bottom, and happy enough just with that.

my big win is the turkish getup. i always thought that was about the coolest-looking move in the book, and i tried once and just classed them as right out of my league. then my trainer had this 'challenge' one month where you just did tgu reps, and i learned the proper way to do them from him. that lower-leg part used to just defeat me, but i can bridge up now with real confidence, and hold it for as long as it takes till i'm ready to bring that lower foot back and through. now the 'worst' thing about them is the wear in my kneecaps.

i'm a little bit intermittent with them, which is a shame. i don't think there's been anything in all this time which has done as much to settle and clean up my various shoulder issues.

smurfette54 wrote: »

I need in on this Turkish Getup thing!

honestly, i'd go to work and furtively wonder if i could zip into an empty boardroom long enough to get a few of them done.

if you want to try: what made the difference for me was to think of the geometry of the whole thing, all the way through. . idk if this will help you, but fwiw: i take this mental line and draw it from my planted foot to my planted hand. if that line passes 'through' my hips on the way, i find that i'm usually pretty solid. the times where you have something else on the ground is just bonus i think i try to plant the knee of the bottom leg on that same line as well, actually. it's another one where the negatives seem to be easier and come more intuitively too. so a way to approach them just to test your overall readiness and mobility.

so really, the tgu is a tripod thing. it's all about lines. you get a straight line vertically from your top hand to your elbow or other hand on the ground, and then you get a straight line horizontally from weight-bearing hand to weight-bearing foot. and i really try to use it at the end of my warmup moves as a kind of overall everything-integrator. i can do planks and stuff, but i love the tgu for going into that other dimension. you actually use that core tightness while you move through multiple different levels and plains.

also: a little weight goes a LONG way when you're working it out

That is amazing!