Questionfear
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I am in my first week of Rite of Passage, and I am incorporating a pull-up progression alongside the presses. I can't do a pullup, and so I am working on dead hangs and bodyweight rows.
As a bit of background, I have struggled a lot with getting a strict bodyweight horizontal row (as in, legs straight out, laying flat and pulling my chest to the dining room table). Before I started with kettlebells I was following You Are Your Own Gym, so I did a ton of rows, but couldn't get past horizontal rows with my legs bent, or angled rows with suspension straps.
Monday during my light day, I surprised myself by doing 3 strict bodyweight rows alongside my presses. Today I did 6, which proved to me that Monday wasn't a fluke-I really can execute strict, legs straight, body rigid horizontal rows! All without training rows at all for months.
My guess is that this is from heavy kettlebell swings especially, but damn...it's such a small hurdle but it feels amazing to know I can do it...and it gives me so much confidence in general going forwards!
As a bit of background, I have struggled a lot with getting a strict bodyweight horizontal row (as in, legs straight out, laying flat and pulling my chest to the dining room table). Before I started with kettlebells I was following You Are Your Own Gym, so I did a ton of rows, but couldn't get past horizontal rows with my legs bent, or angled rows with suspension straps.
Monday during my light day, I surprised myself by doing 3 strict bodyweight rows alongside my presses. Today I did 6, which proved to me that Monday wasn't a fluke-I really can execute strict, legs straight, body rigid horizontal rows! All without training rows at all for months.
My guess is that this is from heavy kettlebell swings especially, but damn...it's such a small hurdle but it feels amazing to know I can do it...and it gives me so much confidence in general going forwards!