TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - 7:35 - Davide's training background, transition from bodyweight to gymnastics 7:35 - 9:43 - Do you need a coach/proper facility to train rings properly? 9:43 - 11:32 - The importance of "pushing yourself" and the influence of competitive background 12:00 - 13:29 - The role of age, how long can you progress on rings? 13:30 - 19:21 - What calisthenics can learn from gymnastics? 19:21 - 21:28 - Gymnastics point system - is it accurate? 21:28 - 27:43 - How other skills like pullups transition to Front lever? My disproportion. 27:43 - 30:00 - Don't focus on scapulas, the proper body cue in Front Lever 30:00 - 35:00 - The importance of "Core" in Front Lever, and what does it mean really? 35:00 - 47:50 - What is the perfect Front Lever exercise, and which are NOT (and why?) 47:50 - 51:20 - Thoughts on isometrics (static holds) 51:20 - 54:24 - How to program our perfect Front lever exercise 54:24 - 1:07:50 - Why programming in gymnastics is not perfect? (applying strength principles) 1:07:50 - 1:15:42 - Is advanced calisthenics/gymnastics healthy? Sacrificing for the results 1:15:42 - 1:23:00 - The daily life influence on training, Reverse ego lifting, stepping out of comfort zone 1:23:00 - 1:28:42 - Thoughts on "skill work", loose vs strict approach to training 1:28:42 - 1:42:40 - "Moneyball" movie conversation (being critical, not listening to others, choices) 1:42:40 - 1:55:05 - Social media impact on training and results (creating vs executing) 1:55:43 - 2:00:50 - Do we have to make training complicated at all? 2:00:50 - 2:05:15 - What is harder? One arm Front lever or Victorian? 2:05:15 - 2:07:33 - Ending
Thank you very much man for inviting David, and sharing his insights about Front Lever. If someone wants to learn front lever with just one word, it depends haha. Kidding aside, If you are starting out with Front Lever, Train Tuck Front Lever and when you get to advanced tuck front lever, train half lay or straddle front lever with bands, otherwise if you are on half-lay and you can hold 5 seconds or more, same as mine. My mistake, was I still training Half Lay and strengthening, like even straight to the point what David said, if you want to achieve Full Front Lever, train Full. Again, thank you Frinksmovement, you are so underrated in the Calisthenics community brother. but yes I am sure you will be able to help create world class calisthenics athletes through your videos man. Looking forward to achieve that Full Front lever 10 seconds this December, Let's go!
Very good podcast. Next one let the person finish their train of thought. While he was answering you, you cut him off quite a bit. Write down your thoughts on the matter and ask him after he’s answered the inicial question.
Thank you Jose! I did not notice that myself and so Im glad you pointed this out. Im gonna have to be more "patient" in a sense on my next ones. I hope it did not kill the whole discussion and was not VERY annoying. Once again, thank you!
Great discussion!! really helpful content. keep it up! I focused so much into scapula retraction at the beginning and realized late how weak my glutes were^^ Now I'm training it a lot to improve my front lever. Also dynamic exercices helped me so much more like the one he mentionned! i like the idea a whole body tension rather than just talking about core etc
Thank you for sharing! I was honestly never focused on these "little" things and im glad i could have this talk with Davide, and even more glad to share our conversation with others
Hey! Just a message to say : Keep motivation, your channel is so underrated! You use very precise term which are difficult to understand, especially When we are not english ahaha but its good because we want to see that !
I can confirm that people strong in deadlift can be good at front lever, I saw with my own eyes my friend who was just deadlifting heavy, being able to hold a full front lever for few seconds with zero direct work on it. So yeah, I gues deadlifts can help :D
@@FrinksmovementTV Honestly though, this channel has some of the most informative calisthenics content on youtube, presented intelligently, only a matter of time before it starts getting it's dues
@ 31:35 I would say majority of people have the same problem I had with front lever in the "core" is the lower back. I had 10 muscle ups but still couldn't hold a front lever because I always felt something was missing in the lower back even with my abs well developed. So like he mentioned in the video his horizontal pulls felt weak as so did mine so I worked on it daily with reps and holds in different tuck or straddle positions. Before you know it boom u have front lever and still doesn't stop there. Now u gotta do front lever pull ups and increase the bar higher for better performance of your front lever.
Thank you guys a lot for answering those confusing question. This is my question: what is the related between the explosive strength and the 1rm strength.
Thank you for positive words. Well what i can tell you for sure is that the more explosively you can perform movement at given intensity - usually the higher one rep max you gonna have in thisparticular movement. Lets take pullups, if you can do pullup with 20KG very explosively (not using momentum) your 1RM pullup will be higher then person who is less explosive. In temrs of actual training, i always preach striving for fast concentrics for building strength. But i would not say training FOR explosive power is the best way to build up 1RM. Its all about context but I hope my answer is somewhat satisfying. Have a nice day and thank you for engaging once again ;)
I'll chime in too. I'll def start by saying my knowledge in this regard is very limited, so take this as a stimulus to further open up a conversation, not a definitive answer. Obv in any strength sport speed plays a huge role (at the end of the day what we all do while training is impressing acceleration to a given load), to what extent speed is related with 1rm's that's an actually interesting question. As Eryk already said, in my opinion at least, focusing on speed at 90+% intensity is a slippery slope: if something is heavy you're gonna be slow. That's it. So I much rather focus on tension on heavy sets and moving very precisely through the pattern I want. There are some obvious and famous exceptions in the bodyweight context (namely the muscle up), but that would be my take on the relationship between accelaration and 1rm's more or less. But I think there's so much more to say: westside (possibly the most famous PL gym) uses a program (the conjugate) which is based on the intraweekly alternation of max effort (90+%) and speed work (in which they use chains/bands to shift up the accelaration curve of the lift, arguably making a lifter more "complete" in a sense). It'd be interesting to see the westside style approach adapted to bodyweight (I've never seen it yet), although I don't think is a viable system for bodyweight training for a variety of reasons (simply unpractical for certain skills, hard to reduce the intensity of your own bodyweight to such an extent). But I would love to see someone show me it's doable and actually a good periodization option.
@@FrinksmovementTV No need to apologize. Consider it feedback data. The quality of the content in all your videos is top notch. You've clearly thought about the topics you cover for a long time.
I learned so so so much from this video! Still have a question: I have developed a serious bad shoulder injury on the front of my shoulders over the course of several months training the overhand front lever. It's so bad at the moment that I can't even do regular pullups anymore. It's most likely a ''shoulder inpingement''. Tips?
Bro i can relate. Super interview Do you work also on your core and able to do dragon flag ? I am also training a lot weighted cu and pu but also dragon on the side. I am so shocked you are strong in pulling and cannot pass the Advance.
Yeah its all very strange in cali, i dont consider myself very strong by any means, however def adv. tuck is lower than most would expect. Dragon flag is a great exercise, its just i dont have space for them now unfortunatelly ;(
@@FrinksmovementTV I meam you can do Dragon Flags almost anywhere. I used to do them holding on to.my bed with wrist wraps wrapped around my palm and fingers, I have also done it in the monkey bar and pull up (the legs if the bar). I never trained for it. I just trained for the front lever and it came for free. I can hold 5 second clean straddle front lever at this moment. However right now I'm not training it any more.
The Victorian with feet on floor being harder then FL is absolutely insane to even say and Victorian on PB bars is still a advanced move OAFL is about same difficulty is malthease if were talking osvaldo form
Hi I just watched this now and I was wondering if there is a video of the exercise as he describes with starting in a inverted hang- lowering to horizontal-waiting-and back up?
Jesus man let him talk, you keep interrupting him all the time. Be patient, give him some time to express his thoughts and let him finish. Other than that, great video, lots of value provided.
That was my first podcast ever, which caused me to be in too much of a rush out of nervousness. Seems to be a popular mistake but trying to get better from now in the future ones. I hope it did not make the discussion very hard to absorb. Thank you for positive words 👍
@@FrinksmovementTV It's okay, everybody should make mistakes so they can learn from them. I just wanted to point this out because trust me, from a viewer's perspective, the more flow the convo has, the easier it is to watch. Nevertheless as I already said, lots of value provided, so keep them coming.
I might have missied it, but what would you recommend? Front lever raise from a DEADHANG (pulling to horizontal) or from INVERTED position (controlled lowering to horizontal)? Thanks!
25:23 this bit kinda confuses me... When I was in high school I did pullups outside the changerooms and one day one of my classmates grabbed onto my legs and I did 3 reps... He said he was 65kg and at the time I was 58... Any idea why my I would find that easier than you guys seem to imply you do, even though I wasn't very strong aside from that?
@@FrinksmovementTV Yeah... And at the time I didn't think it was impressive because I had no idea what was considered a lot😂 And unfortunately I have gotten really weak since I got a job 4 years ago... I did test myself a last week and struggled to do more than 2 chinups with kettlebells tied to my hips with rope that added to 24kg (I don't have an appropriate belt). Also, I am 70kg now, I have gotten a bit fatter since high school.
@@FrinksmovementTV hey, just in case this makes a difference at all, I'm only 1.68m and I was 19 years old when I did those pullups with the other guy hanging from me. And funny enough, I was training for muscular endurance at the time, not strength.
Thank you for the podcast man, it was really good. If possible in the future could you just let the people you've interviewed do the talking instead of cutting them out so much. Whilst your opinion is valuable we are here for the "specialist" and we want to hear them speak. Good job though
I honestly don’t like GTG style training for anything that has as huge of a CNS stimulus as bodyweight training (or more specifically straight arm skill work). As simplistic as it may seem, I def believe intensity is the primal driver of strength adaptions. And GTG is the exact opposite of enforcing adaption through high intensities. Id simply stick to a classic rep and set scheme increasing throughout the weeks. Again, if GTG was so effective we’d all use it (who doesn’t like to do like 6 little, 5m workouts throughout the day instead of actually having to work your ass off for two hours). Unfortunately what we like and what actually is optimal are two very distinct things.
I dont have a very strong opinion on this one but the last Davide's sentence is really the essence and filter for all things training/nutrition related. Sounds too good to be true? Probably is not true
@@willem-aaronnowe4854 about that i would like to add that greasing the grove works much better for just pull ups than the front lever i always lack in endurance in pull ups so what i did was half reps and after some time i used greasing the grove to get used to proper form again and it works super good but for front lever hold i would sugest dragon pess and of course holds
Well that's exactly the point! Even tough these skills are both pulling and there should be a solid carryover in theory - it still comes down to training the exact thing you want to get better at. Of course there are other factors related to predispositions for certain skills - but that's what Davide emphasized here - You can't predict someones level at certain skill based on performance in other area - and that specificity is king. Cheers
his ig account is private.And the most of his tips for front are wrongg.hahahaha the scapula is the most important to get ur front. i dont know if this guy only think like that or all the gymnastics athletes think like that but who still do gymnast all athletes are now doing calisthenics and other sports
I was accepted on his acc and he does cross to malthese etc. Just request and he‘ll accept. Additionally calistehnics is just blowing up on YT, so your perception is rather biased.
@@fabioesploratore1847 True i watched him he 's a beast but the thing that i dont agree is that he said the scapula doesn't matter for the front and in my opinion that the scapula is a big matter in front
