Learning the Frontlever│Alexander Megos

A lot of people requested a front lever tutorial. So here it is! Enjoy the video give us some feedback in the comments. Let us know what else you want to see.
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Edit: Christoph Hanke

[@spanktheplum]

Gonna stick to one armers, front levers, and swinging around on a ring with one hand while bouncing an exercise ball rather than waste any more time with this whole climbing thing.

[@lucaroffare6616]

It would be very nice to see a fingerboard plan, maybe one for power and one for endurance. Thanks guys ✌🏻

[@alexandermegos8129]

Coming soon !

[@anorangewithadvil]

@@alexandermegos8129 You're awesome, I love all of the content ya'll have been making (:

[@haveawonderfulday279]

The book "training for climbing" from Eric Hörst is awesome. You can find everything you need to make your own plans in it :)

[@nub0rn]

Damn, I wasted my time climbing instead of doing front levers all these years. Thanks for showing me the way chris!

[@AllegraClimbingPsychologist]

Great stuff! Including the final comments of the fact that most of you didn't need to train for it (got it directly from climbing in steep overhangs/roofs) and that might not have a lot of transfer depending on your style. It's about motivation! If you have a calisthenics mindset and enjoy training for skills, go for it! Otherwise, you might need to decrease your climbing load to actually see some improvements.

[@alexandermegos8129]

True words!

[@willemhekman1788]

plus light legs - someone else did an extensive video on the biomechanics, worth checking out.

[@TheMovementAthlete]

This is a great video because it’s a clear, concise, and helpful tutorial. No wasted time. The advice is direct and practical Really … it’s all right there. Thank you.

[@abelabel3664]

Instructions unclear. Ended up with a rubber dead dragon lifting a bell. Help.

[@alexandermegos8129]

That was the plan 😉😅

[@arneberlin3518]

Big fan of this trio! Looking forward to new content

[@epincion]

Really good I loved the whole tutorial. Alex wearing that somewhat manky yellow Patagonia T reminded me that I used to have one like it and wore it everywhere on the rock even when it got full of holes so my climbing buddies took it and cut it up into strips cause they were sick of it.

[@evanmaclean943]

I feel the real benefit of the front lever is more the power from the armpit muscles when not only pulling yourself up as in campus but also outward. Like those muscles are key for bigger throws and keeping body away from current position. But great vid. As well the pinky finger board hang is crazy. I’d definitely hurt myself attempting that.

[@paulhoulden]

It looks like Alex is constantly trying not to laugh! Bet its such a good vibe in there with these boys!

[@ceeroo6736]

If you train your front leaver with rubber support make sure the rubber is connected straight over your feet. If the rubberband is applayed to the bar and connected to your feet it will push you away from the bar and the shoulder angle gets worse.

[@epincion]

Good point thanks

[@scytaletleilax]

So you will progress faster 😉

[@VangelisStavroulakis]

Very nice thanks

[@aidanscarffe5256]

Nice! good luck in the RRG on the project!

[@eugenenomarch4285]

Danke Alex!

[@user-bx4zq7fx7e]

Sick! Been stuck on a few seconds for a while, trying to approach 10 seconds

[@BodhiJMSRyder]

Thanks dude!

[@borisbolshoi7317]

Never thought about using the plates and pinch block to do the flag that's really good

[@Hey0CaptainjAK]

i usually put the resistance band near my hips

[@chuckspjr]

German climber Alex Megos, 29, is currently on a trip visiting the Red River Gorge in Kentucky. Although he’s there to work on a harder, bigger project,

[@chuckspjr]

I got this on my news feed. Is it true??

[@thomasanderson1882]

Great tutorial 👌 I'm a tall climber at 195cm (6'4); Do you think it may be more difficult for longer bodied folk to acquire strength 💪 for front levers?

[@alexandermegos8129]

Yes...The angle of the joints is also crucial. If you look at competitive gymnastics, this is why joints are measured in childhood.

[@whelmking6497]

Good video. Only thing I think is incorrect: straddle legs is easier than bent legs. The final progression: straddle, bent both legs, bent one leg, full lever.

[@dargly]

the thumbnail is peak humour

[@Yorrhto]

Go look in their KZbin shorts 🙈

[@HD-ty8ng]

That's my favourite tempeh

[@jeremiemorel7611]

Great video and tutorial. Even though I am nowhere near as strong as any of you, here's my two cents : One exercice could be set up better, the one with the rubber band. the band should actually be connected to the bar and to your waist, not your feet. because it is far from your center of mass, and it teaches you to push down with your feet into the band, which leads to dropping down when there's no band. with the band around the waist you just get support, and closer to your center of mass. Other than that it's great !

[@alexandermegos8129]

Tanks for your feedback!

[@gabriel_mignacn]

very nice tips. I will be using these ones very soon. But a better mic would be perfect to a nicier experience on watching the vídeo

[@alexandermegos8129]

Noted!

[@CrispyClouds]

Nice one! Could you do a human flag tutorial? Even though it doesn't really apply to actual climbing, I've always wondered how to go about doing that.

[@namyak-bf9od]

That would be nice, but here's what i picked up after trying to learn how you can read if you'd like you have to pick which arm to put higher up, and which to put lower on the bar when you become the flag the arms have different things to do, as the one higher up you use to pull, and the one lower takes most of the weight of your body. and train accordingly your arms sideways planks might be a good training for this as well, at least for the core stability

[@gezzapk]

It’s not too hard. Most of its just technique. Literally learned it today

[@6996Gunslinger]

its a dangerous exercise just for showing off not worth putting time into risking serious injury

[@Charlie-ww9mv]

The beanie in the thumbnail 😂

[@menaserver1147]

His forearms 😍 3:03

[@eliclarke24]

Show us the Warm Up

[@XCrovaX]

Könnt ihr so ne Art Serie machen, was man am besten trainieren sollte wenn man von einem Level zum nächsten mochte also so ne Serie v0-v1, v1-v2,v2-v3 etc.

[@kingkrzes7121]

wait hold up the old thumbnail was gold 😭

[@swaggerman3]

Alex is a tempeh enjoyed I see

[@tonieja2351]

Does any of you have germanlangaged KZbin chanell or maybe someone knows germanlangaged KZbin chanells?

[@yeoweehuathuat8926]

Look easy but take yrs

[@Sepp2009]

6:20 Popeye is that you?

[@v2plantpot]

einfach mehr tempeh essen, direkt gainz

[@maggusragnar9368]

ihr seids supersymphatisch manchmal sogar witzig, aber bitte so Bierernst wie in den ersten 6 Minuten brauchts ned sei (... ist ein sehr ernstes Thema, ich weiß) 😁🤙

[@alexandermegos8129]

😅

[@user-mv5ib9jd2q]

the front lever doesn't involve the lower back. The lower back pull the hips towards the back which causes an arch in the back. In the front lever we use the abdominal muscles because they pull the hips to the stomach and keeps our hips from dropping down and arching.

[@alexandermegos8129]

...of course ..completely no involvement...than you can't even stand on the ground ...The back extensor, by the way, starts at the lumbar spine. So to speak in the lower back 😉

[@clayton6095]

Looks like you guys are stuggling on the Dragon flags, I know some dads who can teach you a thing or too

[@danielpetroski3456]

first

[@KSSyu13]

Surprised a climber is offering a front lever tutorial. A front lever is a cool move, but being able to do a front lever has very little translation to climbing. It's better served as a benchmark. Most strong climbers can eventually do a front lever without any real training. But climbers who trained the front lever don't climb anywhere near as hard as those who achieved it without training.

[@alexandermegos8129]

.. because we got asked for 😉 the frontlever is one of the main wanted exercises next to the one arm pullup...and has a long tradition in climbing history (John Gill) father of modern climbing did it one handed 😉

[@winedineclimb]

Have you seen the video until the end?