the muscle up training frequency/tips

[dream]

i know at least a couple people here can do a muscle up, so how often do you think its appropriate to train, and do you have any tips?

[Steve]

How's your pullup strength?

How's your dip strength?

I never trained for them specifically.

[Jeanette401]

Whassa muscle up?

I thought when I saw the title it was putting on big muskles

[Steve]

[i_love_muscle]

If you want to be a gymnast or a parkour pro, you could do muscle ups. But I'm not so sure they are that practical for most people. I'm not saying don't do them ..

However, I'm wondering why somebody would do them if they didn't have to

[Steve]

Because they're badass

[Focus]

Question is so loaded and lacking conntext I give up in despair before I'm done organizing my essay response.

How about telling us what can and are doing right now? ^_^

[dream]

right now, i can do around 20 pullups, 20 dips.

i want to do them because theyr awesome. plus, they probably develop a lot of back power to pull yourself up that high. plus, iv heard that you can do a "slow muscle up" and that would take tremendous strength.

as steve said, they are badass. im getting rings so im going to be practicing them on those too.

i do parkour, and im getting into gymnastics. so yeah, i need to be able to do them.

i learned about them like a week ago, and started training them by first learning the kipping pullup. after i got them down, i started on a low bar and jumped a bit to get the movement down.

now i practice them by just hanging from the bar and try to kip and pull hard enough to get my chest over the bar, rotate my wrists, and then press up.

i would do like 5 attempts every day, give or take a few. i got my first one on saturday, sunday i got 3 out of around 8 attempts, monday i got 1 out of like 15(i was stubborn and i wanted to keep trying). so i am guessing i needed more rest and thats why my performance dropped.

il probably practice them like 2 times a week in addition to my normal chinup training and 1 arm chin training.

i keep the volume extremely low, and i train like pavel taught in Power To The People, greasing the groove by training frequently with low volume and medium to high intensity.

i hope that helps

[tic]

It seems like Muscle up is he new FAD atm. I've seen lots of folks doing it at the gym the past month. In my younger years, I did them for kicks to show-off but it's a ton of pressure on the shoulder / elbow. I am with Mo, here WHY do them beside showing off ? If I recall corectly, the trick is to build fast momentum on the pull up motion and ride it 3/4 way up of the pull ups and transition to dip.

Not sure if I can do them nowadays and not sure if I want to, it's like Leno's clip "What do you think is going to happen?"

How have you been Jon? Long time no see, how is school / life?

[Focus]

Originally Posted by dream

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i hope that helps

Ah, okay. It sounds like you've already figured out the general gist of it (are on the right track).

Meant to reply to this a lot earlier but apparently I just saved it instead of sending it. Just noticed it sitting there on a bookmark bar. Sounds like the new program's going well, good to hear.

Beyond what you're already doing, if you find you're still having trouble, I would go so far as to replace some of your chin training with them and see if that helps, since there's a lot of crossover there.

[dream]

thanks, focus : ]

tic, i know what you mean. its just a cool skill that i would love to be able to do i guess, its not high priority, but i do love to freestyle on the pullup bar.

and everything is going well, i hope it is fr you too! i really hope you'r doing amazing!

[dream]

update. i can do muscle ups now. they are very simple, actually.

the secret was in the false grip and to pike at the top if the transition is too hard.

as of now, im still practicing with a pike, but as i get stronger, i will reduce the pike.

[Bobbus]

I need more work on them as well. Apparently the front lever benefited from doing the muscle up

[peterson]

Training for more than this moves the body towards a hormonal state more favourable to the destruction of muscle mass.The best times to consume protein are immediately after training, just before bed and immediately on waking. These are the most important moments for your muscle to have protein available to them in ample quantities.

[wes]

Originally Posted by peterson

Training for more than this moves the body towards a hormonal state more favourable to the destruction of muscle mass.The best times to consume protein are immediately after training, just before bed and immediately on waking. These are the most important moments for your muscle to have protein available to them in ample quantities.

AND protein gives you a fitness too.

[tic]

Originally Posted by peterson

Training for more than this moves the body towards a hormonal state more favourable to the destruction of muscle mass.The best times to consume protein are immediately after training, just before bed and immediately on waking. These are the most important moments for your muscle to have protein available to them in ample quantities.

So the rest of the time, it's NOT favorable to consume protein? I guess like I will skip on the chicken for lunch and tuna for dinner and just take my WHEY only for breakfast, before bed, post workout? How many scope should I consume?

[dream]

what the heck? why did peterson randomly start talking about macronutrient timing out of the blue? this thread is about the muscle up.

[i_love_muscle]

Originally Posted by dream

what the heck? why did peterson randomly start talking about macronutrient timing out of the blue? this thread is about the muscle up.

Because it is very difficult to read properly when a person's head is up their ass. Have you tried doing that? You can't see very well ..

[tic]

We are poking fun at peterson b/c well.... it makes no sense in this thread...

[janysek]

Intensity Cycling is best tips.When you use these tips on how to build muscles fast, you can begin testing and experimenting with different exercises, training gaps and training days.