somanaut
Level 5 Valued Member
I was wondering if anyone has gone from being truly untrained to achieving Sinister without any detours?
Or I could ask in a different way with a personal anecdote:
When I was first introduced to the TGU I couldn’t even do it with a 12kg. When I started S&S properly I just did partial TGU with a 16kg, until I could do a full one. Fast forward to today where I can do one with a 40kg (only tested it for 1x1 each side) and the only other thing that I have trained besides S&S was some weeks of OAOLPU (which I have only ever managed one crappy one of on one side, and not repeated the feat, and this was after my first time of reaching Simple goal).
Since S&S was my first strength training program that I have followed consistently, I would be considered untrained (and I still consider myself untrained, I have just paid my entry to the world of strength), as Pavel writes “no longer a boy” however this does not mean you are a man (same criteria for women ofc), since pressing a 32kg is considered the passage from child to adult in ETK.
Anyway my point is that I went from zero to Simple without any detours to further the process. Has any just continued from Simple to practising for Sinister, without detours to ex. snatching, pressing etc?
I am thin and was never strong before (not claiming that I am strong now, just stronger than before Simple), so I assume a strong guy/ girl could power through to Simple and beyond easier than myself, even if they perhaps weren’t allready a strength athlete.
So what I am asking, if anyone of us that struggled to complete any or both of the exercizes continued all the way to Sinister without doing other moves or training modalies?
Or I could ask in a different way with a personal anecdote:
When I was first introduced to the TGU I couldn’t even do it with a 12kg. When I started S&S properly I just did partial TGU with a 16kg, until I could do a full one. Fast forward to today where I can do one with a 40kg (only tested it for 1x1 each side) and the only other thing that I have trained besides S&S was some weeks of OAOLPU (which I have only ever managed one crappy one of on one side, and not repeated the feat, and this was after my first time of reaching Simple goal).
Since S&S was my first strength training program that I have followed consistently, I would be considered untrained (and I still consider myself untrained, I have just paid my entry to the world of strength), as Pavel writes “no longer a boy” however this does not mean you are a man (same criteria for women ofc), since pressing a 32kg is considered the passage from child to adult in ETK.
Anyway my point is that I went from zero to Simple without any detours to further the process. Has any just continued from Simple to practising for Sinister, without detours to ex. snatching, pressing etc?
I am thin and was never strong before (not claiming that I am strong now, just stronger than before Simple), so I assume a strong guy/ girl could power through to Simple and beyond easier than myself, even if they perhaps weren’t allready a strength athlete.
So what I am asking, if anyone of us that struggled to complete any or both of the exercizes continued all the way to Sinister without doing other moves or training modalies?