Post by MMX on Oct 29, 2014 18:16:35 GMT -5
I am a believer myself but for anyone else a very interesting read.
kettlebellworkouts.com/crawl-way-better-squat/
The benefits of crawling are legion, and I’ll get to those in a sec, but first you’re probably gonna want me to prove I’m not full of crap, so here you go…
For about two months I put squatting to the side (shame on me) and started crawling a lot.
Like, a whole lot.
Every type of crawl I could do, I did. This went on for quite a while.
Now, prior to this my max rep set with two 24 kg kettlebells was 10 reps. Nothing special.
One day, I got a wild hair up my you-know-what and decided to have a go at a max-rep set just to see what I could do.
Much to my surprise I nailed 20 reps, and only the last three were tough. Not only that, but I was able to recapture my previous pistol PR of 70 lbs on either leg without doing any pistoling for even longer.
While neither of these is a high-level feat of strength at my height/weight/age, it should give you pause to think about what YOU can glean from it as you work toward your own feats of strength and endurance.
If I put any exercise to the side for too long I start to suck at it big time, regardless of how good I am at it (pullups are a good example). This was the first time I ever actually got BETTER at an exercise without practicing it.
The culprit was the crawl, and if I hadn’t believed in how awesome it was before, I sure as heck did now.
Now, what I did was a little extreme, so I’m not going to ask you to stop squatting – heavens forbid!
kettlebellworkouts.com/crawl-way-better-squat/
The benefits of crawling are legion, and I’ll get to those in a sec, but first you’re probably gonna want me to prove I’m not full of crap, so here you go…
For about two months I put squatting to the side (shame on me) and started crawling a lot.
Like, a whole lot.
Every type of crawl I could do, I did. This went on for quite a while.
Now, prior to this my max rep set with two 24 kg kettlebells was 10 reps. Nothing special.
One day, I got a wild hair up my you-know-what and decided to have a go at a max-rep set just to see what I could do.
Much to my surprise I nailed 20 reps, and only the last three were tough. Not only that, but I was able to recapture my previous pistol PR of 70 lbs on either leg without doing any pistoling for even longer.
While neither of these is a high-level feat of strength at my height/weight/age, it should give you pause to think about what YOU can glean from it as you work toward your own feats of strength and endurance.
If I put any exercise to the side for too long I start to suck at it big time, regardless of how good I am at it (pullups are a good example). This was the first time I ever actually got BETTER at an exercise without practicing it.
The culprit was the crawl, and if I hadn’t believed in how awesome it was before, I sure as heck did now.
Now, what I did was a little extreme, so I’m not going to ask you to stop squatting – heavens forbid!
