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Posted 04 August 2009 - 01:31 PM

View PostFK Pimp, on Aug 4 2009, 02:24 PM, said:

MU's are easy when you know how - if it hurts your elbows you're doing it wrong. I'm with mark though - if you can do dips and pull ups then you are getting everything you could out of a muscle up really.


Nah, it hurts my elbows because of past football injuries, not technique (although it probably is an exacerbating factor). I also get pain when doing clean and Jerks, front squat, press... You get the idea.
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Posted 04 August 2009 - 02:17 PM

View PostFK Pimp, on Aug 4 2009, 02:24 PM, said:

MU's are easy when you know how - if it hurts your elbows you're doing it wrong. I'm with mark though - if you can do dips and pull ups then you are getting everything you could out of a muscle up really.


what about functionality? You can do all the dips and pull-ups in the world, but if you can't scale a wall or pull yourself up a tree branch then it's useless.
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Posted 05 August 2009 - 08:17 AM

View Postgreg, on Aug 4 2009, 03:17 PM, said:

what about functionality? You can do all the dips and pull-ups in the world, but if you can't scale a wall or pull yourself up a tree branch then it's useless.


you don't need to muscle up to scale a wall or pull yourself up on a tree branch - my four year old can't muscle up but he can do both.
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Posted 05 August 2009 - 09:21 AM

It took me about 2 weeks after getting my first muscle up (a huge kipping affair) before I got my first deadhang one. What seems to be the deciding factor in whether someone can get a strict muscle up is their strength through the transition point. I always did my ring dips as deep as possible and so I can pull myself to a much lower position than others and still press it out.

Really slow negatives with an emphasis on a deep dip should get anybody a strict muscle up. I'm up to 3 full turn out deadhang muscle ups at the minute.
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Posted 05 August 2009 - 04:15 PM

View PostFK Pimp, on Aug 5 2009, 09:17 AM, said:

you don't need to muscle up to scale a wall or pull yourself up on a tree branch - my four year old can't muscle up but he can do both.



Gregg I am def with FK on this. I have been involved in functional/real fitness all my life. On joining the military I was trained to scale walls, climb, rope climb etc and at no point did the PTI's / Coaches that I have had say "Right lets look at the muscle-up".

It is an over indulged exercise, and people have wasted many hours in its pursuit. If you can do a full ROM Pull up & Tri-dip you can do a muscle up, the weakness is either in the grip or the transition.
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