How Much Exercise Do You Get?

Sunbiz1 said:

xKuroiTaimax said:

I've been working up to those dragonflags for a month, and still can't pull back up...that's 80% of your own body weight. Most professional athletes can't even do those.

I'm big on stability/medicine balls as well, they force you to stabilize with your weakest muscles.

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I had to do it in stages at first, isolating what muscles I was using because I'm uncoordinated like that. Ballet works in stages, too (like holding an attitude before going into arabesque, or developpe holding your leg turned out and bent at the knee before extending rather than relying on momentum. It's these muscles, then these ones- make sure x part of you is solid before extending/tensing y etc) The tension and carriage gym and ballet drill into you are part of it. Actually, I find controlling going down harder than pulling up, but gym and trapeze (I do a bit of trapeze/rings) incorporate more of the pulling up. I won't lie, it did not come naturally. I have heavy, powerful muscly legs and a comparatively scrawny torso. I'm still working on it. But yeah, going down feels like my middle is going to rip in two sometimes..

I've only tried the medicine balls a few times in my high school gym. I will give them a try at my current gym some time.

My weakness is instability due to hyperextension, weak wrists/forearms, lower back and turnout muscles. There's still much to do..

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