Pull to front lever or inverted hang

Hi all,

I've been working front levers by jumping up to an inverted hang and then lowering into a tuck lever which i can hold for about 15s. Reading the gymnastic bodies book I saw that it said to pull up into a front lever. When i try this i can barely budge. I can just barely pull to an inverted hang with bent arms and legs tucked. How do i work on pulling into a tuck lever or inverted hang with straight arms? Didn't think doing it with bent arms will translate very well with what i've read on the forum. It seems impossible. Would bands be a good idea? Is this to advanced an exercise to be trying at this time.I wanted to add these as a "pull" for one of my workouts. Any progressions or ideas would be appreciated. Thanks

Phil

Negatives will work, but some technic will help, you have to lay down on to your shoulders moré than trying to pull,at least until you reach the front lever. At first you ll pike a bit but it will let you to arrive to inverted

you can also try inestead from dead hang from chin up top position and try to upsidedown mantaining the body as straigth as you can

From beastskills front lever tutorial:

Make absolutely sure that you bring your shoulders back as you pull downwards. Look at the picture above and see how my shoulders are already behind the hands. Failure to do so will make it physically impossible to come up into the skill.

It is perfectly acceptable to get into inverted hang and lower to FL.

Pulling into the FL generally means you are on a set of rings where you feet are off the floor.

Its also perfectly ok to use bent arms to start with and use straight arms when your straight arm lever is stronger. Bending your arms gives your more leverage so you will be able to pull with more of your bodyweight extended than if you used strictly straight arms. Also the muscles used are a little different, bent arms is more biceps while straight arms is more triceps (for the pull to front lever or inverted hang). Kind of like how a regular push ups is all triceps but a planche has significant bicep involvment.

1) pull with legs piked or stradled

2) pull with legs tucked

3) pull with legs tucked and back flat

4) pull with legs in open straddle

5) pull in full lay out

you might be at number 3 for example with bent arms but only number 1 with straight arms. I'm about 3 with straight, doing negatives with one leg extended.

and another note, it is hard to pull up to front lever from a dead hang position with strictly no momentum, whatever variation.

thanks everyone. I'll try those suggestions out and keep plugging away at it.