Old Forum Crawling tips,progressions,GLOVES?

[MikeMoran]

Been on a crawling kick lately. Had some serious increases in performance on the mat from it!
Figured we needed a catch all thread on crawling.
Progressions,loading, and Glove recommendations? I live in the desert so grass is not common here.
Right now I have some old cheap "weight lifting" gloves that I am using but they have big finger holes and sometimes bunch up on my digits.

 

[rhgo5]

Madgrip work gloves from Lowes,Home Depot are great.

Just have fun--spider-man crawls,leopard,crab,etc. forward/backward/side-ways/circles;bear crawls backwards going up steps--all good.

 

[MikeMoran]

Thanks for the tip. I was gonna go to Lowes anyway(or ACE) to get some stuff for the house.

 

 

 

[yorkshirecomrade]

Best place to look at crawling info/options? Something I'm really interested in.

 

[MikeMoran]

I got started from Original Strength. Check out originalstrength.net

 

[Aaron]

Can you tell me how often you add crawling to your work out? Do you just set a timer for 10 minutes three days a week? I went to the OS website and it is intriguing. I may buy the book.  Thx

 

[Jeff]

Leopard Crawls are tough, for me anyway.  I live in an apartment and do them on the sidewalk because I don't like crawling in dog poop.  One set for me will consist of crawling 60 feet forward and 60 feet backwards, slow and controlled.  Three sets and I know I've done something.  Five or six sets and I won't do anything else for that workout.  I don't know if it is related to my age, but it isn't getting easier at a rate that I would like.  But, I am convinced it is a worthwhile part of my S&C.   I wonder how others fare with this amount of Leopard Crawling.  I will wear canvas sneakers to prevent blisters on my toes, but bare handed.

Backwards is definitely harder than forwards.  It doesn't look like it would be, but it feels quite a bit harder.  If I was going to go for 10 minutes, I would just go forwards.  But, as hard as crawling backwards is, it must be something I should continue doing.

Crawling is so hard, it takes away from other things I might otherwise do.  I wonder if I would be better off just doing one or two sets to leave plenty of gas in the tank for other things.

 

[23rdwave]

Lots of quality ground movement here.

Foot awakening:

Toe wiggles - http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=frLkfFCWtpQ

The ministry of silly walks - http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hxg4zCGVMao

Balancing and hopping - http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GBwbJyyvNWc

Spiral movement transitions:

Rotating - http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j-yHTcG8SQQ

Rolling - http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bVnuDPPBG3k

Following the eyes - http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xVBmfN1EUIo

 

[Train2Train]

Google breakingmuscle tim anderson crawling and you will find a simple and free 4 week crawling program that I found very beneficial. if you stick to the entire thing your crawling performance should have vastly improved by the time you finish.

 

[Aaron]

Thx. One more thing...my workouts during the week are extremely diverse. Do you think a couple days a week added to a rigorous training schedule would be beneficial, or is this something that folks add once a day?

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[MikeMoran]

I add in a bit of crawling as a warm up. I started with baby crawls and leopard crawls. Then added more time to them. Then started backward leopard crawls. That got me to Spider-Man Crawls. Now I can do Spider-Man crawls forward and backward. Backwards are much more taxing and hit the core pretty good. I would say the whole OS Reset program has enabled that along with S&S and my KB Strong workouts.

So generally I might do 5-10 minutes of crawling 3-4 times a week as part of my warm up.