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Bodyweight What's The Most Interesting Strength-Transfer/Carry Over You've Seen?

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I like the farmer walk, really like it. It fixes my posture. And it transfers to everything.
Also i like some heavy deadlift. On the summer i worked hard to get a full planche, i can flex my abbie but cannot totally tense my butt. Few sets of heavy dead before the planche training and everything was much different. Much more stronger and firmer the planche.
 
Yesterday I did some testing after a year with S&S. I surprised myself by being able to dead lift all my KBs which resulted with a 2xBW(66kg) DL (140kg). But it was not pure as I had chained them and wasn’t pulling all at once of the ground. And I had been feeling hammered the last 24h.

I had never attempted a Barbell DL in my life, might run a test later this month.
 
While in a period of doing heavy Get ups, going for a country walk with one child in a papoose on my front with another child in a pack on my back and carrying a third child like a barbell in a Zercher squat having to scramble up sand dunes and climb over waist high walls. Didn’t lose my balance and my legs just seemed to know how to get me over the obstacles with ease.
 
I would not necessarily call it interesting because it was to be expected. I found it interesting with the extent of the carryover.

So I used to do old-school calisthenics type training: lots of push-ups, pull-ups, dips, etc. All unweighted. Started off skinny, no weightlifting background. Height 1.72m (about 5'78) and weight about 65kgs (143 lbs).

Did a 1RM bench press of 90kg. I was impressed by the weight, especially with no weightlifting background.
 
I climbed El Capitan more or less off the couch in regards to vertical pitches climbed in the months leading up. A bit of jugging fixed lines, a bit of technical aid practice (less than 50 pitches in two months) and off we went.
 
Hello,

@Karen Smith
Do you load you SLDL ? How does it transfer to regular DL for instance ? Do you follow any protocol regarding this move ?

Kind regards,

Pet'
My apologies.. with the holiday around the time of this post I missed your tag. I do SLDL’s both loaded and bw with great carry over! So much so that I now have a workshop strictly on the SLDL and OAPU called Simple Strength.
I will be teaching it again on Feb 9th in San Clemente California.
I design programs according to my goals at the time but normally my method of choice is 3x week waving the load and not to exceed 5/5 in any given workout but always waving volume, progress load between each session. I stay On a program for a minimum of 4 weeks before modifying.
 
If this would be that simple, training the pull up would almost become unnecessary because press would get the job done for both patterns (push and pull). As an example, specialists of the pull, such as climbers, would extensively train the press. However, they usually train more the pull pattern.

Outside specific instances, a vast majority of climbers don't need to train pullups.
 
If this would be that simple, training the pull up would almost become unnecessary because press would get the job done for both patterns (push and pull). As an example, specialists of the pull, such as climbers, would extensively train the press. However, they usually train more the pull pattern.
We teach the press and the pullup with a very active negative - that's why so many in our world can excel at pullups without a lot of specific pullup training. @JITASIA, have you attended a StrongFirst course or worked with one of our instructors?

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+1 to @Bunn and @Steve Freides ... I stopped doing high-volume pull-up programs several years ago after I had medial epicondylitis in both elbows (it wasn't just the pull-ups, it was also from holding focus mitts). Since then, I've been able to maintain an ~18 pull-up max just through pressing, active & relaxed hanging, and an every so often GTG with pull-ups (2-3 reps, 4-5x/day).
 
@Mike Torres mentions hanging - it's amazing how much this can help pullups. Many people don't realize that their grip is the weak link in their pullups. One person I work with went from 3 pullups to 8 after practicing _zero_ pullups, just hanging from the bar GTG style, a few times every day.

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If this would be that simple, training the pull up would almost become unnecessary because press would get the job done for both patterns (push and pull). As an example, specialists of the pull, such as climbers, would extensively train the press. However, they usually train more the pull pattern.

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Pavel once wrote that a man did nothing but OAPUs and, months later, did a One Arm Chin Up effortlessly.
 
Pavel once wrote that a man did nothing but OAPUs and, months later, did a One Arm Chin Up effortlessly.
Yes, he mentioned this in his early SF article about best press lift. That said, that was a special operator or so, thus not a measuring stick for most people.
 
GHRs made my sprints much quicker and fixed my knee and lower back pain.

Yokes have made it so no conventional lift feel "heavy". Which I know is an odd way of describing it because I definitely am not strong enough to hold a deadlift or squat record.
 
Using primarily mini band loaded backwards crawls for no more than 10 minutes (usually closer to 5) - for almost daily movement... allowed me to achieve a one arm pushup (precious PB = 0) .... 22 rack pullups (precious PB = 18) .... a 50 minute non stop backwards crawl.

Richard
 
Interesting thread.
From my own perspective, coming from a traditional endurance background where strength work is typically neglected, or conducted in a fatigued state, I’d often lose time descending on a mountain bike off road, or carrying a bike over my shoulder up ‘un-rideable’ terrain.
Twelve months/year and a half later, although considerably heavier body weight, I’ve no issues swinging a bike over my shoulder, short sharp hike up and over, and away I go. Sometimes it’s the little things, hurdling over gates/fences.
Can’t point specifics on exercises as I spent 18 months in a gym only using barbells, but currently running RoP.
 
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