Charlie’s first muscle up
No joke, the footage is Charlie’s FIRST attempt at a muscle up. We’ve done the progression drills once or twice, and on this morning we reviewed the progression drills for a minute or two and then attempt #1, resulted in muscle up #1! Great work Charlie! Ironically enough, there is a video on the CrossFit main site today that shows CrossFit gymnastics coach Jeff Tucker teaching his progression to the muscle up. It’s totally different from the progression I teach and doesn’t practice the kip, or use of the hips. This will make the muscle up almost purely a strength movement, much like gymnast perform it. With a kip, an athletes limiting factor is only whether or not they can perform a ring dip. Jeff’s reasoning behind it is to prevent someone who doesn’t have control of the rings from going too far forward.
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Wednesday’s WOD:
A.)
Hang Power Clean
5-5-5
Hang Squat Clean
3-3-3-1
B.) 3 Rounds
8 Hang Power Cleans
8 Front Squats
5 Burpees
Cool video. I’m with you, Nabil. I teach M-Ups from the seated position so the athlete has to kip the hip.
How many people can do the strict muscle up? Not many. And those that can (that I know) all started with the kipping m-up.
Congrats Charlie.