This is a relatively new feat of mine (nearly as exciting as my first chin-up [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] ), and the first time I've done them in a couple of months, so I thought I share and get some pointers. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
Right leg I can get 3 (this time I only got 2.9 with an itty bitty foot touch). Then I proceed to use my hand for a little push from the bottom. Left leg I haven't gotten any yet, but want to work on getting same to right leg by the end of this 4wk program.
cappy,
I can't see the video, but am assuming you are referring to single leg squats (one leg out in front). They are a major challenge to balance and it means you are squatting your body weight on one leg. Great job.
Awesome work Cappy! That is an impressive feat. Guess what I will be working on for the next 5 weeks. Your flexability actually looks a little better when on your left leg though. Even though there is a slight push, your right leg stays extended better.
Good job girl! Those are tough to do. And your legs are wicked looking! Keeping you arms extended forward is better for me. Give it a shot. Also, keep your abs real tight and "spread the floor" on the way up.
Have you seen this video? http://spidersport.com/pistol.php
Thank you galya! I knew I'd get some great pointers by posting here. Now that I think of it, the pics I've seen in Craig's pics are with his arms forward too!
That video is awesome...talk about wicked arms! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
Sheesh, Cappy, that is truly impressive. I can't get out of the hole on those. Damn, now I feel like a real wuss. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]
Yes, forward is better. There was a time when I did them holding onto the extended leg, I don't know how you will find that, but it was as stable as it gets. I hope my knees are better for the retreat so we can pistol together.
Hey chris, use the little push tricks...that helps mucho.
LOL, we can pistol and cook together at the retreat. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] I do hope your knee gets better. btw, do you have a foam roller? when my quads get tight I find my knees get relief from the roller.
No, I don't, but i get a lot of massages (colleagues, massage therapists at the studio and my husband all help every day). A foam roller is on my list of things to get.
Chris, you can hold on to a cable from a crossover machine to add weight for the trip up. Milko uses this with clients who can't do a pistol.
Oooo, Galya, that's clever. I workout at home with no cables, but I can use that counterbalance weight notion to come up with something. Worse case, I'll do them when my boy is around, and he can give me a bit of help getting up!
And, I just checked out that spidersport video. Very nice. I've got to be able to do that, just to show off and challenge my students. LOL
Cappy must confess when I read this this morning I though gosh that looks a very untaxing exercise so I tried one at the gym earlier! My goodness how wrong could I be
Cappy, one doesn't have any idea how hard that is until they try it themselves. I almost popped a vein in my head just trying to go down. Impressive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do try them if you never have, and you'll see why it's a fun feat. I actually discovered by "accident" that I could do them all the way down. It so happens that Buk was at JP's and we were talking about how Kuri can do about 6,000 at once and how we could barely do them. I tried right then and there, and voila, I had one! (remember that Buk?)
Prior to that I did them holding weights onto a low bench. JP tried to get me to do them to the floor and I thought, No way, I'll bust my boutay. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Once I tried them all the way to the floor, even with the little push up, it was harder than doing them on to the bench holding db's. Really gets your quads in a different way.
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