@Harald Motz or anyone else, ever do double swings a+a?
After a few years of snatching i am tending to prefer the simplicity of heavy swings these days.
I did not. But if you want to do them, do them.
1. At what point does doing TGUs cease to be the best way to improve TGUs?
The get up has two "hard parts" 1. roll to ellbow 2. lunge to standing.
it might be a pretty good approach if one wants to go really heavy on the get up to overload these parts by doing some volume work on these two elements.
And, yes, TGUs do offer a lot of benefits in movement quality and what we might call "functional strength." So they're a great exercise for strength training beginners, minimalists, and for everyone to do at least
The get up is the '(oldtime) strongmen mentor' like it's paraphrased in s&s. The mere fact, that it 'slows' or calms one down. The get up in itself has its duration and I am ever enjoying the fact that you do a getup, collect yourself breathe in and out and when you are up to it you do the next. It goes a bit beyond the reps × set mentality. Lifts can be practiced. Get ups, bent press anyhows and the likes like to be practiced.
Could it be that Harald uses a higher percentage of slow-twich fiber to do what he does, relative to most of us when moving heavy weight?
Interested in any thoughts... especially @Harald Motz @Al Ciampa
When we think of the muscle fibers we begin to differentiate. Some voices say there are three types, another might say there six...or ten. At least there is one organism.
I like 'Uphill Athlete' viewpoint also the containing statement: all models are wrong, some are useful.
Slow fibers mitochondria as a sink for the fast fibers pyruvate production. Slow fibers mitochondria are built by long easy endurance work. Then for athletic performance HIT is used sparingly (before comp) to "shuttle" the pyruvate built in the fast(er) fibers into the slow fibers mitochondria. They can make use of it to produce some energy/ATP. With that lactate accumulation is kept low(er) when compared to poor aerobic development.
The probability that I've trained the slower fibers in my upper body via rowing is rather high, as I usually keep my intensity far below MAF, and I accumulated a few 10k rows over some years now. The fruits of aerobic development hang really low. A nice picture is the bee flying from flower to flower accumulating nectar. Flowers are often close to the ground.
I also wonder what is Harald‘s max TGU. I think I saw him doing 10 TGU @ 60Kg on IG... so maybe around 70Kg? This would mean 48kg is 68% of his RM...
Here is my heaviest 'up' as I was to weak to be getting down again. Note that the technique or lack thereof is not 'standard' I cheated onto the elbow, and struggled from lunge to standing.
But I think your thinking is not far off. The % model is quite useful. But also wrong as my 100% today can be 95 or 105 tomorrow...haha.
