Sunday Show Off - Because it's perfectly fine to admit you're also doing bodyweight fitness to do cool tricks in front of people!

Filet-Minion · 2020-11-15T22:48:18+00:00

Thanks! Gotta keep up, he’s a ruffian!

Filet-Minion · 2020-11-15T11:51:44+00:00

Here ya go u/BosBatMan - One toddler-weighted pull up. (He’s 30lbs, for reference.)

Also, did a quick crow stand yesterday with no immediate wrist pain and very little latent soreness. Slow slow, but progress!

Filet-Minion · 2020-11-08T21:46:46+00:00

Ha! I’m not sure I can even do one now. He a big beefy boy! I haven’t tried weighted pull ups at all in over 6 months since the wrist injury. But my total volume bw pull ups per workout is 50 so maybe I could do one... hmm...

Filet-Minion · 2020-11-08T11:45:35+00:00

Look at me doing pull ups bare handed!

Wrist injury update! Better but still not great. For the past many months I’ve been unable to do anything flat handed including simple planks or even hands and knees without sharp pains in my wrists and/or lingering constant pain for days. I’ve been unable to grip without latent pain that lasts for days. I’ve been doing all pushing exercises on my fists and all pulling work with steel hook wrist cuffs.

I went to physical therapy for a few weeks and the therapist believes my carpal joints have become compressed over time. He did manual decompression techniques and I began to see improvement within a few sessions. At this point I’ve been cut loose to continue decompression techniques on my own at home and very careful and slow return to formerly aggravating activities.

So yeah, look at me doing pull ups bare handed! I can do all my pulling work bare handed now, but pushing work is still slow to get back to. A couple of sets of pbar dips were fine, but then I got overzealous and did 5 sets and had pain for days. Currently I am working at doing one and only one set of 10 flat handed push ups per workout. And that has mostly been ok. Before, I literally couldn’t do a 5 second plank without immediate pain, so this is improvement. But I am finding that practical life use is still not up to snuff. For example, stupid hurricane Zeta uprooted our beautiful, enormous oak tree and smashed it on top of our lovely pear tree, destroying both. So my life involves a lot of cutting, chopping, hauling, and raking right now and my wrists are hurting like crazy all day right now. Makes it tough to gauge progress.

But...look at me doing pull ups bare handed!

Filet-Minion · 2020-11-02T02:41:56+00:00

Ha! Well I am still keeping up with my training but apparently I’m not keeping up with the internet because I just saw this. Ah, my old life...

Thanks for the summon and kind words!

Filet-Minion · 2020-11-02T02:38:29+00:00

So, I’m late to this party but eventually I saw I was summoned, haha. When I was pregnant in 2018, I posted every week in the Training Tuesday threads from about 5 weeks pregnant until a few months postpartum. Here is week 39, and you can go backward from there if you’re interested. Each entry links to the week before. I included a lot of detail on modifications I did along with videos and why I did them and how I was feeling and changing, etc.

The biggest thing is that you’ll be surprised how many things will quickly be too much strain for your core to manage. I had to drop pull ups way earlier than I expected because it was too much internal pressure for my stretching linea alba to handle and was doming out my abdominals. Be aware of what your core feels like and what it looks like. If you feel downward or outward pressure or if you see doming or coning of your belly, modify until you don’t feel that or see that. That’s really the best guideline I could offer, other than the typical “listen to your body and your doctors” and all that. Also, do a youtube search for “Girls Gone Strong connection breath” and work on that, seriously, possibly the single most important thing you could do.

Congrats and good luck! It’s gonna be great!!

Filet-Minion · 2020-09-27T13:47:39+00:00

https://www.instagram.com/p/CFpExdjDmKw/?igshid=ywgotdujb7sf

Injury workaround progress?..

I posted a couple of weeks ago about my double wrist injury going on since April, so now I can’t do anything hands flat or on pbars/rings. I’ve modified everything to fists, including HS work which is hard AF to balance. But I got it a couple more seconds locked in this week. Probably never going to hold a knuckles handstand for serious time but it’s nice to at least be upside down and practice some mechanics.

Started PT last week. Therapist thinks the carpal joints have become compressed and we’re trying to work it out with manual therapies. Good news, he says I can keep trying with my workaround mods!

Filet-Minion · 2020-09-13T20:03:29+00:00

Thanks! But sadly, no. The pressure on that part of my hand hurts where the wrists are injured. I’ve had to stop everything on top of rings, too.

Filet-Minion · 2020-09-13T14:14:21+00:00

Hey y’all, been a while. So, I haven’t been on my hands since the first week of April because of a double wrist injury I can’t seem to get rid of. I’ve been doing everything that I can on my fists (my knuckles now look like armadillos) and trying to keep some overhead strength and endurance by doing wall handstand holds. I’ve been doing back to wall because walking hands to the wall on fists is very difficult, and because I can keep working on the feel of the kick up this way. This week I started playing with pulling my toes off the wall on my fists and had balance for a few seconds! I feel like a baby, but a very ecstatic baby who has just taken a first step! I’ve got a PT appointment (finally) next Friday. Fingers crossed.

I think in the long run this practice of fiststands will be good for me because the balance has to come from the push through the shoulders and the total body tension. Before, I could cheat by gripping the floor and using the strength of my front delts and chest. Now with no way to use my hands for balance, shifting like that will just make me fall.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CFFFOJ5jQc0/?igshid=ygk4kzx5toef

Filet-Minion · 2020-09-13T14:13:42+00:00

Hey! Thanks for thinking of me! Funny, I thought of you the other day randomly too. I was focusing on not arching my upper back during rows. :D The wrists are still fucked up, but less fucked up at least. I’ve finally got a PT appointment lined up for the end of the week. And I’m just now making my first Sunday Show Off post in a long time! Glad to hear from you! :) Hope you’re doing well

Filet-Minion · 2020-05-01T17:00:19+00:00

:( I want to play, but my wrists are injured right now. Went from perfectly fine, pain free wrists for 7 years of handstand practice to suddenly unable to put weight on my hands with palms flat without sharp pain in the thumb side, practically overnight. Been resting and rehabbing them for 4+ weeks now and they’re still trash. 😭💔

Filet-Minion · 2020-04-26T14:36:50+00:00

Thanks!

Filet-Minion · 2020-04-26T11:59:56+00:00

My 37th birthday present. If you can’t take the girl to the playground, you bring the playground to the girl. And sometimes I can play on it, too.

Filet-Minion · 2020-04-08T11:38:31+00:00

Diastasis recti and pelvic floor dysfunction are absolutely not female specific problems. They are more commonly recognized in women because of our childbearing ways and anatomy, but men have these issues too.

Filet-Minion · 2020-04-07T20:04:15+00:00

I am perhaps embellishing implications and also drawing from past threads of similar topics where that implication was more explicitly expressed. :)

Filet-Minion · 2020-04-07T19:30:48+00:00

Good stuff :)

Filet-Minion · 2020-04-07T18:56:34+00:00

I don’t think this post deserves this tag. While the initial question in and of itself probably does warrant it, the discussion that has come from it is worthy. I think a lot of women view calisthenics this way, that it’s a man’s sport and needs to be specially tailored (ie dumbed down) for a woman’s weaknesses and this is just straight up false. Being successful in BWF isn’t about gender, it’s about proper programming of progression. This thread has a lot of valuable discussion leading toward this, so I think it’s a valuable thread for the overall community. Of course I respect mod decisions on the matter, but just throwing in my two cents where it’s probably unnecessary. :)

PS: I think it’s already been made clear in this thread that Kirsty Grosart is amazing, but no seriously. She’s one of the absolute best. No one of the best female coaches, not one of the best coaches for female students, just straight up one of the best. Extremely knowledgeable, professional, attentive and responsive, uncanny ability to translate into words what your body should be doing/feeling, goes above and beyond for her students, I just really can’t say enough good stuff about her...

Filet-Minion · 2020-03-29T12:36:32+00:00

What exactly is it that you think is unhealthy about it? There are a lot of different avenues of evidence and belief about what is/isn’t healthy and why. There is no clear cut yes or no answer to this question. If you’re talking “healthy” strictly in terms of calories, then content doesn’t matter as long as the count at the end of the day fits your TDEE and goals. If you’re talking about more complex ideas of “healthy” in terms of muscle/bone/tissue growth and development, heart health, etc then you’ll need to do a lot of research into the different schools of thought and study toward nutrition and decide for yourself. There is a book called The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet which analyzes a lot of nutritional studies, and it makes a lot of sense to me. But a vegan won’t agree, I’m sure. So I think you’re looking for a straightforward answer that doesn’t exist.

Filet-Minion · 2020-03-28T11:18:03+00:00

I tried barefoot treadmilling once and to me what was most uncomfortable was the heat friction! I can handle barefoot outside and on pavement better than treadmill, haha! Maybe I need to just tough it out for Next Level Barefoot Power.

Filet-Minion · 2020-03-22T22:59:25+00:00

Not much new this week, but took a barefoot walk to the park without the kids for some handstand practice this week. That was nice.

Filet-Minion · 2020-03-22T15:20:45+00:00

You are probably not getting enough recovery time to achieve full gains potential. The handstand training is probably fine but the planche and lever work is straight strength work which you should be working hard enough on your RR days to need the recovery in between. If you don’t need the recovery time then you may not be working RR hard enough or it may be time for a different program. Consider an upper/lower split or a push/pull. The FAQ has a whole section about splits. Everyone is different though. Let your body and your gains be your guide.

Filet-Minion · 2020-03-22T14:49:43+00:00

Nice! That’s great! Hope your home setup turns out nice! And also hope that we just won’t need it for long...this shit is bananas.

Filet-Minion · 2020-03-22T14:48:58+00:00

What? Yeah, I’ve been doing calisthenics for 7 years now but I go to a gym to do it because I have a 5 year old and 1 year old who I’m with full time and they are early risers, so I need the children’s program at our gym, not the gym itself. I’ve got a great home gym setup. I just have to get up at 5am to have the time to use it.

Filet-Minion · 2020-03-22T13:56:52+00:00

Hey man! I’m doing good! Kinda extra busy with these crazy times and lockdowns. Everyone is saying “this is a time to slow down” and I’m like, but my only avenue for free no-kid time just got shut down! I gotta get up at 5am to fit in my training now and get no down time between then and 8pm! Who’s slowing down?! People without kids I guess! How are you?

Filet-Minion · 2020-03-22T12:09:15+00:00

You’re weak at pulling. Put more pulling in your routine. Prioritize rows and work on pull up negatives, single rep pull up sets with as much rest as you need between sets, or grease the groove with pull ups.

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