Hello everyone! Thank you for taking the time to look at this. I have many questions that I couldn't find the exact answers for in the forums.
First, my main goals are hypertrophy/strength. I have seen pictures of gymnasts and they look really good.
Now, I would like to be able to perform the following exercises: muscle-ups, front lever, planche pushups, and handstand pushups. I am currently confused as to the best way to go about this.
Here is my confusion: I read about 'greasing the groove' and used it to increase my pullups from 0 to 12 in a matter of weeks. Now, I'm wondering if the same principles can be applied to all these exercises:
1. but I'm not sure if you can do them all everyday - is this safe/effective?!
2. what is the best way to progress - doing different exercises on each day or all the exercises everyday?
3. Is it best to do all the exercises 3x a week separated by 1 day of rest (M/W/F)?
Currently, I'm doing the following (none to failure):
M/W/F
3x pullups, 3x planche pushup progression (Back to back, followed by 2 mins rest)
3x pushups, 3x front lever progression (back to back, followed by 2 mins rest)
3x static handstand, 3x v-ups (back to back, followed by 2 mins rest)
3x pistol 1-leg squats
***CURRENTLY don't have rings so I can't do dips!!***
Now, I'm wondering if it is possible to do all this everyday - but decrease the intensity (number of reps). The reason I am asking is because I can't ever seem to increase the number of pullups I'm doing on this routine. No matter how hard I try, I can't increase my numbers - perhaps it's because I'm going to failure on occasion in my efforts? The most significant improvements I noticed were doing the grease the groove workouts everyday pullups, but I'm not sure if doing all this everyday is too much.
My primary concern is CNS overload. I have a huge propensity to do WAY too much because I have a high threshold for pain. I should mention that I used to do a bodybuilding/weightlifting routine and I got pretty big from that. It was high unfunctional though, because you would only destroy 1 bodypart a week and then it would be toast (ex: chest monday, back tuesday, etc...).
Thanks for all your help!!!
PS If someone has a plan set up for how to achieve my above goals, perhaps you could tell me! I'm also wondering about how to 'progress' under one of these programs. Do you continue adding reps or increasing the amount of time in a static hold once it becomes 'easy'? Or is it more planned than that (ie once a week, you add 5 reps etc...)?