An intro of myself

[Harout Aintablian]

Greetings to all of you,

I want to introduce myself a little, am 45 yrs old, Family Medicine MD, live and work in Beirut, Lebanon, I came acroos the site from a link on another forum and really admired the work done by the athletes under Coach Sommer.

Want to share what I did today, after I read the article about the basic exercises beginning from the frog stand to planche and lever. I TRIED TO DO THE FROG STAND....(don't laugh at me) I couldn't even raise my feet from the ground my hands got shaking......but am inspired a lot.

Yes, weak hands, weak body, but lets see where a guy like me can reach, now am thinking in another way to work on static strength till I can do the frog stand...like putting my hands in a table and trying to raise my lower body..after some time if I feel that my hands are read will start the frog stand...any ideas?

I do martial arts, not pro but not bad too, and its mostly chi gung based although I do conditioning, but the exercises don't work on muscles, they work differently, thats why I was searching for good bodyweight conditioning and I found you

Thanks guys

[LJoll]

Perhaps you could try starting with your legs on a chair or sofa and then gradually shift your weight forwards, until you are holding most of it with your arms.

[Harout Aintablian]

tried it, didn't work...the other way seems might work...putting my hands on a table and forwarding myself and raising my feet...although couldn't raise much..just for 2-3 seconds

[George Launchbury]

Hi,

Maybe you should consider taking a step back and work on very basic strength for a while, such as push-ups and pull-ups, dips and rows?

Regards,

George.

[Harout Aintablian]

Thank You,

Did few push ups ( couldn't more than 10)...tomorrow will bring a pull up bar to fix at one of the doors in my place and will start the pull ups too...plus I put put my hands and two chairs and my body between the chairs and raised my body and held the position...although hands shook...but I think this also will help me till I reach doing the frog stand.

Lets see how much time it will take

Kind regards

[Harout Aintablian]

Holding the dip between two chairs and raising my body...few days ago when first did it, couldn't hold more than 120 second, now I can hold for 20sec...good I think...slow turtle progrss till i reach to the very first beginner exercises....cool

Push ups are 15 now.