Lock Off, this stuff is made of pure awesomesauce

False Grip Lockoff?  Better call it the bacon wrapped shrimp of SARS work.

This feels so great, words can't describe it.  After over a year of doing straight arms work on rings without it, and now with it... the work sets feel SO much better, and my elbows feel so much better... bacon wrapped shrimp I tell you (or soypaper wrapped quinoa acovado sushi rolls for the vegans I suppose). 

Agreed! I've been battling medial epicondylitis (golfer's elbow) in my right elbow for over a year from too much (poorly executed) handstand, one-arm chin negative, bouldering, and grip work. Since starting Foundation, and especially since adding in these Lock Off holds, my elbow has felt much better!

I am just listening to talk from a physio who has a PhD in tendon rehab. He stated that one of the first things he gets his patients do is isometrics at end range fully contracted. Sounds like the lock off. A full contraction at end range wrist flexion and working isometrically.

A lot of these exercises that we are doing are improving the tendons and joint integrity that will prevent further injury. I am still amazed at how far ahead of the research these exercises are.

Mark Collins said:

 I am still amazed at how far ahead of the research these exercises are.

Yes, it's like everyone thinks they'll mess you up yet they're actually fixing us so well but no-one knows why. You even wonder how gymnastics coaches came up with them. 

Practical genius.

As a group, US National Team Coaches are 100% focused on achieving tangible results; helping our athletes make the US National Team and then moving onward to World and Olympic Teams. Old methods that are no longer adequate for the current training demands must be ruthlessly and swiftly set aside; regardless of how cherished or productive these methodologies may have been in the past.

Our minds prowl; endlessly seeking the answer to an unending quandry - how do we make that which is already nearly perfect - better? Continued progress is only possible by exploring, parsing and then synthesizing from new avenues of information; searching for those rare new nuggets of hard won knowledge. Coaching at a world class level is an unusual blend of determination, wide ranging experience and intuition. There can be no blind adherence to dogma. Only an ever unceasing committment to excellence.

We are patiently impatient. A year or two means nothing to us; we habitually think in 5 and 10 year windows of training. We instinctively respect the human body's inherent physiological time frame for adaptation. We have been slapped down by reality far too many times to fail to respect this aspect of training.

We have the luxury (?) of literally spending thousands upon thousands of hours in our laboratory (I personally have over 16,000+ hours invested in Allan's training over the course of 12 years) working with the finest athletes on the planet, focused on one thing and one thing only; the pursuit of perfection. And expanding the boundaries of what was previously thought of as the limits of human movement.

Yours in Fitness,
Coach Sommer

It is a true blessing that you are teaching us what has taken so long to learn and perfect.

The Lock Off should be done after every single set of SARS, or after a series of sets could be enough?

After each set of sars.

Thank you Alex, would that include Front Lever on rings or just Ring Support?