Comments on: Pulling A Muscle At Muscle Beach Santa Monica

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:25:21 +0000

I don’t blog about Crossfit much. I haven’t been back in a while. However, Kelly blogs about it all the time.

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:28:44 +0000

Heh sorry about that. I’ve edited it to say “core training” as opposed to “endurance” after reading Kelly’s post.

BTW how is the crossfit training going? Blog it!

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By: Kellyfrankson

Kellyfrankson — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:09:41 +0000

From the Crossfit standpoint, the point of kipping pullups is not to make them easier (as leo pointed out, whether they are easier or not depend on what muscle groups you have developed more), the point of them is to do more work in less time as well as develop range of motion in your shoulders and teach your body to generate power from your hips (two things that become very important for the olympic lifts). Rather than just working the lats, you are recruiting other muscle groups making it more of a full body workout than an isolation workout. And since you are recruiting more muscle groups, (once developed) you can do more of them before your body tires. However, at the begining, most guys find them much tougher than regular pullups.

And the idea of using a wider grip can be done with kipping pullups as well, but what it does is shorten the range of motion. I widen my grip when I want to do them faster.

I never do the traditional “static pullups”, except for odd occurence when we do them weighted or do L-pullups (static pullups holding your legs straight out in an L position) but yet I jumped up this morning to see how many I could do and I did 22 in a row. (however I can do 42 kipping in a row, so the statics were considerably less than my kipping max).