jgruginski
Level 3 Valued Member
It seems like an easy enough task. "Just push it straighter!" I would tell myself, but the elbow always felt "soft", especially during getups. I tried crushing the handle, but it didn't give me that solid feeling. I've been going through the S&S program for the past month and really enjoying the progress, but hadn't yet gotten that solid elbow lock until I just played with my wrist angle a bit. When I first started with the getup a few years ago, I had a lot of success trying to work isometric wrist flexion and crushing the handle. What I didn't realize was that I had forgotten about pressure with my pinky, probably because the size of the handle didn't put pinky flexion in as advantageous a position. As I was playing with my wrist angle recently, I found that just trying to add a little ulnar deviation and pinky pressure got my elbow to lock completely. It definitely makes the roll to elbow, up to half sitting, and the "get down" feel so much easier.
The one thing I've noticed is that while my elbow is more solid, my tricep fatigues faster. This has improved greatly over the last week but I'd imagine that it's due to using the same nerves for pinky flexion, ulnar deviation, and tricep activation(C7 & C8 from my recollection). The daily TGU practice is probably not as effective as GTG, but I'm seeing enough improvement that I'm not going to deviate from the program. At any rate, I don't know if this little tweak will help anyone else, but I figured that I would share.
The one thing I've noticed is that while my elbow is more solid, my tricep fatigues faster. This has improved greatly over the last week but I'd imagine that it's due to using the same nerves for pinky flexion, ulnar deviation, and tricep activation(C7 & C8 from my recollection). The daily TGU practice is probably not as effective as GTG, but I'm seeing enough improvement that I'm not going to deviate from the program. At any rate, I don't know if this little tweak will help anyone else, but I figured that I would share.