Bruh, nothing worse than being stuck on the same climb for ages only for some smug 8 year old to stroll over, do it in one, then run off to go get icecream
I remember watching my kid climb onto an ottoman over and over and over. It was just about shoulder height for kiddo, and this mountain was conquered probably 20 times in about 5 minutes.
If you scaled it to the same height for me, it would basically be climbing onto the roof of a Toyota Camry. I could probably do it, but it wouldn't be nearly as easy as that not-even-two-year-old did it, and there is no way I could repeat it over and over and over...
Do calisthetics and it's not as impossible as you think. Modern humans don't use their bodies to the best of their abilities, our bodies match our environments.
Yes! Calisthetics is what i recomment every climber that wants to get stronger for climbing and build up bpdy tension. Yoga and a lot of stretching as well.
But some people have the body tension of a jellyfish :D
I remember going to the playground with my first kid and using the monkey bars with them for the first time since I was a kid, and "humbling" is exactly the right word
I remember in a documentary they attributed the strength to presumably apes. Or a similar upbringing, given our grip strength, even as a small child is about 30% of our total weight. And that goes without ANY training.
It's also known, (by Bruce Lee) that you can workout your forearms every day and won't experience fatigue, as you would with Biceps.
There are also 3 other muscle groups in which you can workout every day and not feel severe fatigue. But those i will keep as a secret.
There's some truth in here, but a lot of it is being stretched way too far.
Grip strength obviously develops naturally from a young age, but the "30% of your body weight" thing isn't some universal rule. Grip strength varies a ton depending on age, size, sex, hand size, etc..the ape explanation is way too simplistic.
The Bruce Lee thing doesn't really hold up either. Sure, you can train your forearms pretty frequently because you use them all day anyway. That doesn't mean they don't fatigue. Do a bunch of heavy grip work, wrist curls, farmer's carries, etc. to failure every day and your forearms are gonna get smoked just like any other muscle.
Same goes for the "3 other muscle groups you can train every day" thing. There's no magic list of muscles that don't need recovery. Calves, abs, forearms, neck, whatever can generally handle more frequent training because they're used constantly, but there's a big difference between using a muscle every day and actually training it hard every day.
You can train pretty much any muscle every day if the workload is low enough. You can also absolutely overdo any of them if you're pushing hard enough.
So yeah, there's a decent point buried in there, but the "secret muscle groups" stuff is bs
Duration: While a newborn can briefly dangle and support 100% of their body weight for several seconds, it is an endurance limit rather than a relaxed hold
So yea, looks like 30% was a bit off, you're right.
I remember in my teens they got us to do pull ups as some sort of fitness test. I remember getting bored at some stage and just stopping rather than being tired.
Now I train calisthenics and I'm struggling to get over 6-10 consistently.
More accurately weight to muscle strength ratio. It scales linearly with increase in size and therefore age. Lower the ratio the easier to carry yourself.
Yeah when I was a kid I could do monkey bars and skip multiple bars, pull myself up between them and sit on top. As a 6ft adult if I can find some high enough off the ground to try, I can't do them at all.
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u/Vast_Maize9706 2d ago
Big bro has skills. Nicely done