Front Lever Question

[CalisthenicGod]

How much carryover does the Front Lever have over the L-Sit? I remember in Coach's book, he mentions one of his trainees who is exceptional at Front Levers dominated an L-Sit competition. Also in Killroy70's template, he mentions only doing PL, FL, BL, HS and various FBE's enabled him to achieve a 10 second V-Sit.

So does Front Lever have great carryover to L-Sit? Can someone who is good at Front Lever also do a solid L-Sit?

[MH87]

Yes.

[Blairbob]

So long as you are using the straight back versions of progressions, you'll probably get some carryover without working the L-sit since it works core strength.

I know I definitely feel them being work in hollow hold, body levers, and flat tuck FL, ring support, planche leans on swiss ball and rings, even 60s support on PB ( I don't feel it on BL because I'm focusing on fighting to hold it, heh).

If you can do a FL you can probably have a good strong L-sit since you have to have a strong core to hold the FL.

One of my lil guys had a 3-5s straight FL, slight pike in hips at times. However, for the most part I never got a good test at L-hang or L-sit times because he didn't like holding them for very long and no bribe would work. :x

[ashita]

Yes of course, FL work your triceps a lot and your core, exactly what you need with the L-sit.

Also the L-sit requires more flexibilty than FL, it is another factor.

But it's pretty obvious, if you can't do l-sit you'll never do a FL, l-sit compared to the core strength you need to hold a fl it's a joke lol

[CalisthenicGod]

Thank you all for the responses, and Blairbob you're helpful as always.

I will still be doing L-Sits, but I was just wondering if doing Front Levers will benefit my L-Sits.

My FSP warm-up goes like this:

1. Wall Handstand 2x30 sec

2. German Hang 4x15 sec

3. Frog Stand 2x30 sec

4. Tucked Front Lever 3x20 sec

5. Low L-Sit 4x15 sec

Basically, 5 FSP's for warm-up, which isn't too much yet not too few, and I do that 4x a week with my FBE routines.

[Blairbob]

Sounds good, just make sure you're working some ring support of some kind if you have them scaled toward you in your programming somewhere. Preferably often enough.

[CalisthenicGod]

Sounds good, just make sure you're working some ring support of some kind if you have them scaled toward you in your programming somewhere. Preferably often enough.

Definitely, once I get my rings I'm going to work on ring support more than anything else

[Uzeeh]

Honestly, I think that FL has zero carryover if you have poor flexibility like me. Before I took a break from training, I could do a solid six second straddle FL, but couldn't do a proper L-sit for even a second on the floor. When a guy with poor flexibiulity does L-sit, it looks like a MSH 'cause you can't bend at the hips.