Most impressive weighted muscle ups

[januszpedal2]

@thomaslowrens I am 36 y.o. and I can't even do a single muscle up. I feel like I missed the boat on this

 

[thomaslowrens]

@januszpedal2 No matter what is your level I think in 1-3 years you can surely achieve strict muscle ups. Slow false grip ones may be a good idea.

To learn them, here is a possible approach:

• Train the false grip from the start, at the beginning do it feet assisted until you can dead hang in it. Take your time with the progression to avoid wrist pain.
• Train pullups, then you can go weighted or do them in a false grip until your chest touches the bar and your forearms are horizontal.
• Train dips, you can start on parallel bars with straight legs on the floor or negatives if needed, then progress to straight bar and improve your range of motion and go chest to bar or deeper.
• Train the transition with foot assitance, as described here.

This is the minimum you would need to train for a slow muscle up, which will give you a strong transition, making it much easier when you do them kipping if you choose so.

 

[dogcat]

@thomaslowrens I weigh 180lb.

I can do a 25lb strict MU on a bar.

I've done 3x5 at 35lb strict on the rings.

It's never occurred to me to try for a max weighted ring MU. hmmmm...

 

[deborah123]

@thomaslowrens My best was strict rings +70 lbs at 135 lbs.

Elbows felt like they were going to explode, so I stopped training them.

In general, not super useful overall but a fun exercise to do once in a while

 

[prestontg]

@deborah123 135 lb ≈ 60 kg

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[thomaslowrens]

@deborah123 That's awesome. Do you think it is possible for someone to do a slow muscle up with one arm?

 

[deborah123]

@thomaslowrens Unlikely, because holding/turning the hand is difficult while doing the transition with one arm which is much harder than a OAC/OAP. There's always going to be a "little" bit of a kip

 

[thomaslowrens]

@deborah123 So it would be a one arm chest to bar/chest to ring followed by a one arm impossible dip?

Though the pullup in the video does not have the same range of motion of an actual two arm chest to bar, and I have not seen full range one arm front lever rows either.

 

[deborah123]

@thomaslowrens Yeah, I've never seen the transition without momentum or assist... it's probably similar to the difficulty of the fabled one arm handstand pushup lol

 

[thomaslowrens]

@deborah123 We have the one arm wall HeSPU and the strict one arm elbow lever to handstand, which are the closest things I have seen to a OAHSPU.

 

[deborah123]

@thomaslowrens Well, yeah, but those aren't true HeSPU because of the massive body contortions.

 

[thomaslowrens]

@deborah123 It's true, but I have not seen anything closer.

Still, I am excited for the future of bodyweight training, since there are a lot more people doing them worldwide and in the next years we will see movements no one had succeeded at before.

 

[deborah123]

@thomaslowrens Same

 

[vikuteee9]

@thomaslowrens Magnus Mibto can sort of do a one arm muscle up video

 

[thomaslowrens]

@vikuteee9 His form is decent, not absurd kip. Here are some of the least kipping one arm muscle ups.

 

[nom]

@thomaslowrens I’ve done a straight bar muscle up at 60kg body weight with 25kg added. Currently out of training but getting back into it. Is this a good number? What weight would I need to hit at 60kgs body weight to equal the ratio record? I’m guessing around 32kg for straight bar?

 

[thomaslowrens]

@nom That's an advanced level I guess. World record with decent form is around 70% body weight as far as I know, so for 60kg it would be 42kg added. Not sure what's the record for your weight class in competition with judges.

 

[margierosie]

@thomaslowrens I am still trying to do 5 one arm muscle ups... Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[thomaslowrens]

@margierosie If you can already do one that's impressive.

Edit: actually do you mean one arm only or one arm at a time as in chicken winging? There is quite a difference.

 

[margierosie]

@thomaslowrens I was joking, can anyone do a one arm muscle up? I am still working on my first two arm muscle up..