My Best Stuff Post-50 #4

Calisthenics and bodyweight strength training advice for older athletes.
All the best muscle-ups that I got on video after age 50 - at least five different kinds (depending on your definitions). And a little bit of a story about how I trained for them.
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#OlderAthlete #FitOver50 #AgingWarrier #Calisthenics
#BodyweightStrength #BodyweightFitness #muscle-up
#slow muscle-up #fast muscle-up #kipping muscle-up

[@stephenp4563]

Very impressed - inspirational stuff!

[@paulmarshall9189]

Good stuff. One of my projects for this winter is a slow MU with just a standard pullup grip. So you have to rotate the grip as you go through the transition and the lever arm is longer than it is with a false grip or normal MU over-grip. My approach is to progress the movement using shorter and shorter blocks until I'm at the ground position I use for a normal dynamic MU. I'm also regressing the rate of pull/power aspect a bit. I started the cali stuff at 57, and I'll be 60 in March. There's plenty of growth left in the tank. :-)

[@skymoo5094]

absolutely legendary. ive been working at it for 4 years and I've almost got one bar mu.

[@Ksamenk]

me too, same as you ..I'm 52 now

[@franciscogoncalves333]

I have one solucion for this

[@The_Aging_Warrior]

Good job! Keep going - I'm sure you're get it!

[@skymoo5094]

@@The_Aging_Warrior I got it :)

[@mray3308]

Congrats, you are an inspiration to us. I'm 48 yo, recently achieved fast muscle up (max. 3 in a row) and also tried doing slow muscle ups with false grip without any luck. I can do 5-6 chest to bar pull ups with false grip but I stuck at the top position. The problem is my elbows started to hurt and I'm afraid of an injury which already might have started happening. I see you are wearing wraps around the elbows, do you also feel pain? Have ever injured your elbows?

[@The_Aging_Warrior]

Thanks! Yeah, I've had some elbow problems. I hurt my right elbow almost 5 years ago doing really deep handstand pushups, and I started wearing the elbow wraps. I don't know if they helped or not. But in the meantime, because of all my shoulder problems, I've taken so much time off that my elbow problems faded away. I do get some pain at the top of high pullups now, but it's not too bad. But if I ever get a sharp pain again, I'll immediately back off.

[@The_Aging_Warrior]

...also, if you still want to work on slow muscle ups, negatives are probably the best way. They're a lot easier on all your joints.

[@franciscogoncalves333]

Ola, eu vi seu video! Excelente. Mas me diga como melhorar( aumentar) a quantidade de ring muscle ups?

[@The_Aging_Warrior]

Thanks! About the ring muscle ups - I don't really know. But if you can already do them, just keep practicing. Doing a lot of negatives would probably help. And also doing positive reps with assist (like - one foot on the ground). And doing pullups on rings with a false grip, and deep dips.

[@franciscogoncalves333]

@@The_Aging_Warrior thank you for your atention. I am your fã. Great atletha

[@itai90f11]

Can you please elaborate on the things that went quickly downhill? And are you trying to overcome this things

[@The_Aging_Warrior]

Yeah, sorry - I shouldn't assume that everyone has followed all my videos. Very soon after the muscle up videos from 2021, I injured my right shoulder pretty badly. Then last year I injured my left shoulder and ended up breaking a biceps tendon. So now it's almost 3 years later, and I've had one surgery and almost continuous physical therapy the whole time. I am still trying to overcome all my problems, and at the moment it's going pretty well. Incidentally, I don't think my injuries were directly related to muscle ups. When I first hurt my right shoulder, I was working on a planche.

[@itai90f11]

@@The_Aging_Warrior I'm recovering from a shoulder injury myself this two months. I think it was caused by me trying weighted calisthenics and by not doing enough warmup before the workout. Thanks for responding. Hope you fully recover. Godspeed

[@dvorakgigachad1444]

@@The_Aging_Warrior how's it going?