My Painful Journey Learning to Muscle Up

Big thank you to Carlos for helping me with learning to muscle up!
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Thanks as well to Kim for helping out and getting over the final hump.
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[GoalGuys]

Good luck on your own Muscle Up Journey!

[patrickroach]

I’m 77 and have trained myself and others for quite a while. Your training ethic is admirable and so is your dedication. I recommend that you discontinue your time frame goals and listen to your body and avoid overtraining. With serious goals such as yours, think tortoise vs hare. Patrick

[andrewsomers]

for your next challenge you should learn how to do the human flag

[iamfitphil]

I made it my goal to muscle up. It took me about 7 years. I got it this year. I was overwhelmed with pride joy and other emotions

[Rascal]

Man. When you get that muscle up. I am just so happy lmaoooo

[josephbXIX]

Man, one thing i love about your channel is that is pure reality in the aspect that there is doubt, that many times you dont achieve exacly what you wanted, but you always improve and is better then at the begining

[matthewpeinado]

If you’re interested in developing a really strong upper body and a new skill maybe try climbing regularly. There’s a lot of technique to learn a and it’s a lifelong sport.

[inaa]

This is so inspiring! I'm working my way on being able to do a pull-up. At first I couldn't even grab on to the bar for 3 seconds, now I can do pull ups with a band!

[FitzFilmandEdit]

It took me over a year of consistent training to get from 3 pullups to the muscle-up myself. I think you did fine.

[wilhelmhesse]

Dude I can assure you most Youtubers who claim to get the muscle up on time didnt or already knew how to do them and werent being honest. Muscle ups from scratch are hard because there is a lot going on, you have to train the body, the back, the arms, the hands, strengthen the muscles, the abdominals etc etc

Your journey was a true representation of what it takes the averagely fit joe to do a muscle up and thanks for sharing.

[davisg]

The tip about pre-activation through isometric workout helped me nail my first muscle up today. That was the missing piece of the puzzle. Thanks a lot.

[korayalkankarakoc]

Hello! I watched your video 2 days ago and i scared to get injured, scared to do muscle up attempts. But today, (2 days after to watching your video) successfully i did my first muscle up on first try. And did it in 1 month progression. I did nothing extra, just simple push ups, pull ups and bar dips. In short, trust the progress, trust yourself, believe in yourself. Just try and you will see, you can make it, you will make it. Stay strong, peace. 💪🏾✌🏾

[arsalanchaudhry]

For any one that wants to try a different technique that worked for me here is my brute force secret. Instead of doing strict pull-ups, the KEY is explosive pull-ups (shoulder width) with 2 mental components. The first is that you are trying to get as high as you can. The second, when going for the transition think of slamming a car hood as hard as you can. With this in mind, do 50 reps of explosive pull-ups every other day or every workout. (doesn't matter if its even leg day just do 50) I guarantee you in 2 weeks you'll have so much strength that you can get your chest above the bar and from there its an easy dip. Hope this helps anyone :)

[pandacorn]

Watching this while I eat cake


"I'm getting so motivated!"


But I'm super happy for you!

[oscarsamuelespinozalovera]

I remember my first muscle up, i shed a couple tears of joy.
That view at the top....isn't beautiful, don't you?.

[thedrakkennest]

That excitement you had after doing one muscle up reminded me of myself when I did one! Keep at it, you got this!

[sabeelm]

Past few weeks I've been looking up muscle ups, and I knew you didn't have a video on it. But today, look what comes up on my feed.

[odysthenics]

Bro that's the meaning "never give up"
Best motivation and inspiration

[dannywelsh]

Thanks for posting this. Too many videos out there that make out the MU is easy. They show the start point, miss out the 6 months of solid training and obsessing about getting there and then just show the end result. Like it's really simple. I have been doing this myself now for about 5 to 6 months and I have experienced all the same set backs and challenges you have. I too, can manage just about 2 unassisted on a good day. So no shame in how long it took, because I know I've worked hard and it just takes that long.

[justgeniusgeertthings]

Great video man. I love the peptalk about being consistent despite feelings of doubt. I'm training for a muscle up too. I gave myself the entire year, so I'm just training every other day and I'm sure that if I keep it up i'll get it before the end of the year!