#PROGRESS VS REGRESS FULL#

Or with toes to bar you can regress back to doing some kipping drills to practice your swing – making sure it’s generated from the shoulders with the lats identifying where you are losing rhythm noting any mobility deficiencies to work on, etc. Imagine how much better that will make you. Make sure every muscle is firing and that you can feel it and know it’s function. You can use that same idea with pull-ups by making sure each rep is the picture of perfect: active shoulders/scaps/upper back lats pulling down disengaged upper traps (out of your ears) etc. There are tons of drills to improve every part of a toes to bar, snatch or pitch. Even sports skill positions like pitching. High skill movements like gymnastics and Olympic lifting most commonly fall into this category. Regressing a bit in the progression not only assists with strength and ROM as in the examples above, it also helps refine movement patterns so you can move more efficiently which also leads to improvements in all of the aforementioned areas. You might be surprised that these versions feel just as hard, or sometimes even harder than the “Rx” version you’ve been doing!

#PROGRESS VS REGRESS FULL#

Full ROM is generally better for not only building strength and capacity, but also injury prevention. Or, instead of getting 2 inches on a strict handstand push-up with 2-3 Abmats stacked up, go full ROM from a box. This can help increase your kipping pullup volume as well as maintaining them for longer during workouts (aka under fatigue). Strict pull-ups and strict handstand push-ups commonly fall into this category and if you are one of these full-steam-ahead-athletes mentioned above, you are missing out on #gainz.Įven if you have some strict pull-ups…maybe today you throw in a band and complete strict chest-to-bar pull-ups instead to increase the range of motion (ROM) traveled and therefore trained. Meaning, they never perform the scaled or modified versions ever again, which is a huge mistake. Whether it’s lack of knowledge or ego, a lot of athletes never look back once they’ve achieved goals like handstand push-ups and strict pull-ups. From this day forward, take a step back on a regular basis and think about how you perform your movements in each day’s workout and which version on the progression chart do you choose. If that sounds like you, here’s a challenge. Are you missing out on #gainz? There’s a good chance you are if you’re like many athletes who’ve achieved major fitness milestones and have the mindset that forward is the only direction to go.

Progress vs regress