Static holds everday??

[Martyn Grant]

I am new to gymnastic training and working on front lever and back lever at present.

I am making progress but looking for a better way to train.

If i want to train for front lever is is ok to do holds once a day and do the repetition movements twice weekly? e.g do tucked hold daily and do pullups, rows and ice cream makers - all compound movements twice weekly.

Is it also ok to do all static holds daily - back lever tuck, front lever tuck, L sit, etc

[WitnessTheFitness]

Daily as in seven days a week without break? Sounds like overkill to me, but all that really matters is if you're seeing progress or not. If you enjoy doing the statics daily, and are seeing good progress from month to month, or cycle to cycle, then great. But if you're new to gymnastics, then I would be very careful to not overwork the straight arm skills, as tendon injuries are very easy to come by.

Sometimes the most important thing to remember with strength training is that less equals more. It's during our recovery periods that our bodies grow stronger, and if you don't give yourself adequate time to heal then you're going to just be crippling your strength gains, and paving the way to injury.

[Piotr Ochocki]

Rest is as important as training.

Most probably doing these daily you would rather slow down your progress not speed it up (especially when you are beginner).

[Martyn Grant]

I am confused now.

Static holds are a form of isometrics right? And i have trained in isometrics before..not the static holds but pushing against imovable objects etc. I Trained this everday for 6 months and made good progress .. worked up to 70kilo pullups with body weight of 90k. held 2 x 20k plates at arms length for time, dips with 57.5k. 1arm overhand pullup with left arm.I am sure this was due to isometrics and 5 x3 reps every 3 to 5 days.

Are static holds a more draining on the cns than overcoming isometrics?? If so how often would i be able to train then?

[Piotr Ochocki]

Ok, I see that you have asked the same question in other place, and you've got answer from Blairbob saying "All depends on the volume and intensity.", and that is one thing, other thing is your tendon/joint preparation, but this is something you know best.

If you feel like and you have experience with training, then just try it, avoid injuring yourself ("if it hurts after training then something may be wrong" applies) and see how you feel - your body should give you answers for that.

[Blairbob]

Well if you were to use rather long holds you could be using more TimeUnderTension than say FullBodyExercises. That's probably more CNS strain but I'm not exactly sure if it is.