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runt
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Front levers??
March 25, 2004, 08:31:30 pm
Anybody been bothering to do these for a bit, and noticed anything useful apart from a sore back? Waste of time or the nuts??
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Bubba
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#1 Front levers??
March 25, 2004, 09:14:10 pm
Well if you can do levers then your body tension must be superb which is going to give huge benefits on steep rock, cutting down on swinging legs and cutting-loose, etc.
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runt
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#2 Front levers??
March 26, 2004, 04:46:20 pm
If only I could do a load of them!
Just meant d'you reckon it's worth perservering with em? Or are they more an abstract gym strength thing
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Bubba
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#3 Front levers??
March 26, 2004, 04:52:38 pm
Have a read of this:
http://www.powerathletesmag.com/pages/frontlever.htm
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Paz
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#4 Front levers??
March 26, 2004, 06:05:32 pm
They've got to be fantastic for showing off with.
Wish I could do one
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#5 Front levers??
March 26, 2004, 06:15:53 pm
I've never done one one - I blame it on my rather beefy thighs. Saw Chris Hamper do a one armed one many years ago though - he was a strong boy.
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Paz
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#6 Front levers??
March 26, 2004, 06:21:25 pm
It wasn't `just' a `side lever' was it? And is Stanage Far Right's best trough-dodging slopey traversey Hang named after him?
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#7 Front levers??
March 26, 2004, 06:29:10 pm
Yes, it was mereley a side lever, but is still one of the most impressive demonstrations of power I've ever seen. Can anyone do a one-armed front lever where their back stays parallel to the ground? That would be quite something.
Hamper's Hang was originally the challenge of hanging the crimps on the Joker/Ace - I've no idea how it mutated into the traverse at Stanage Far Right, unless there was more than one Hamper's Hang, in a similar fashion to the myriad Jerry's Traverses
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runt
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#8 Front levers??
March 27, 2004, 02:05:30 pm
Good lever link, don't think I'll be risking the local playground for a spot of training though :roll: It'd either be a kicking or a face plant onto a load of syringes
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T.H.
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#9 Front levers??
March 28, 2004, 07:19:06 pm
Oh come on boys, they ain't that hard! :wink:
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runt
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#10 Front levers??
March 28, 2004, 10:42:55 pm
too many pies I expect!
You been boshing the sets out then T H? :wink:
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erm, sam
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#11 another site
April 26, 2004, 03:58:37 pm
If you are a lanky floppy fucker like myself, front levers could really help maintain a tenuous locked off position on shit feet. I hope.
I am intending to be able do one in mid 2015, or so.
Dragondoor.com is a wicked site. It focuses on bodyweigt training, which should help not cack the back quite so much. I hope.
Particularly usefull I think is the emphasis on holding a static postiion for ages, before progerssing to the next stage. Have a look.
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erm, sam
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#12 oh, one more thing
April 26, 2004, 04:00:20 pm
I bet T.H. is no taller than 5.10. and mesomorphic. If you have a body like a plank, they be rock hard.
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Scouse D
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#13 Front levers??
April 26, 2004, 04:22:16 pm
just started trying these in earnest and managed to knock one out in the bogs at work today. I also did a quality front lever on the frame of the toilet cubicle this morning.
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#14 Front levers??
April 26, 2004, 04:37:39 pm
new signature suggestion: "cofe gets injured while taking a shit".
i wish it wasn't true :cry:
careful with the front levers - i reckon it was my delight at being able to do them and then doing them in earnest all the time that fucked my elbow - now i don't even try to lock off anymore.........
even though i know i could
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T.H.
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#15 Front levers??
April 27, 2004, 11:11:15 am
You ain't wrong Sam.
I barely reach 5'8'' and I don't think I could be more mesomorph if I tried.
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#16 Front levers??
May 06, 2004, 03:53:03 pm
Young man, glad to see we are taking it al seriously!! Front levers rock - hold them for ten seconds, let go and do 20 more - you will turn to steel!!
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#17 Front levers??
May 07, 2004, 10:09:24 am
Fuck me! 10 seconds is a long time!
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runt
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#18 Front levers??
May 07, 2004, 11:40:02 am
Does it count if I shake like a kango for the whole ten seconds?? thought not! chin up bar anyone? 5 quid :?
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T.H.
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#19 Front levers??
May 07, 2004, 11:48:41 am
I can do about 10 seconds for a few goes, then it all goes to pot.
I don't really include them in any training session because if I do them first I can never do anything else, and if I do anything else first I can never do them. What a drag.
I might start working them a bit more now on C.J.D's advice.
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#20 Front levers??
May 11, 2004, 12:56:45 pm
Not sure why but i hold front levers all day long Come from a gymnastic background and did loads of martial arts at a young age. Helps considerably on steep ground that requires lots of body tension. Trying to work on one armed front levers ... Desperate!!!
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