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@nickale Sled dragging. Get a used car tire, 3/8th eyebolt and nuts. Some nylon rope/ratchet straps, and diy a sled. Wedge a small price of 2x4 in the middle of the tire so you can put weight on it. 20-40lbs is a good start. Take to a park. Drag. Pretty simple. Front drag, backwards drag...

@graced1257 Do the same thing but holding the top of a chin up, sternum to bar. Try for 1 minute. May take a year or so of practice to reach that.

@learnandbloom Dan John is the man. I've used his explanations for training the deadlift for over a decade with hundreds of clients. He talks I listen.

@gewineda One of them isn't reading??? Btw, I don't downvote unless I think it's propaganda or bots/shills. So I won't downvote you. I'm not trying to get his view disappeared. Fitness is full of anecdotes and science is always behind in trying to figure out why certain things work.

@liamdude5 Some people want scientific studies to know if something works. They dont want to look at just Olympic Gymnasts, Prison inmates, Martial Artists or Indian Wrestlers.

@beaud20 A bench is not a OHP. I wonder if gymnasts could OHP a good amount without training it?

@beaud20 Eventually with enough consistency, yes. Had a wrestling coach back in the day. Did Ironman events. Dude was a unit, 100 pushups was a warmup. I think he did rope climbs in his sleep. He never lifted weights. We got him to bench one day. He weighed near 180lbs but ramped up to 250...

@maninan It's one of those beginner exercises that got branded as the only ab exercise you need. Look at gymnasts, hanging straight leg raises to the face. But you have to have the grip and hamstring mobility to make that work and most people never train those.

@eian At first the very high rep stuff took two hours. I could have ramped up but just jumped in. After two months, it came down to about an hour, leg day was faster. Pullups is where rest time was needed most.

@brohoho I used to powerlift. Had decent but not super impressive numbers for my weight but I had fun. Really helped kickboxing. I noticed when my deadlift reached over 400lbs, no one liked being kicked by me anymore. Later I added very high rep calisthenics and cut the main lifts way back...