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This is not the way I learned the muscle up, but its the way I teach it. I was never able to get over the bar by just doing a standard pull-up so I did routines to strengthen the pull-up; like weighted pull-ups (heavy weight-low reps), or go on the lat pulldown machine put it on 210 pounds and same (5 sets of 5 reps) “keep in mind I only weigh 135 pounds”. I strengthened my pull-up and yet couldn’t get over the bar. One day at the park after a warm up I grabbed the bar with both hands for my first muscle up attempt, before I pulled though while still holding the bar with both hands I stepped forward with both feet, so now my body is slanted. I held the position for a few seconds and pulled as for going for the muscle-up and boom, my upper body went around, over on the bar, did my dip and that was my first muscle-up. Thats when I learned my body had to be at an angle to get my upper body around and on the bar. I will add, being able to do pull ups and dips is necessary for performing or practicing the muscle-up. In my experience I learned that if I can do 50 pull ups and dips in under 15 minutes with ease I am ready to move on to the muscle up progression move. I would practice the progression move by completing 50 reps broken up into set of tens and fives twice per week till my upper body is finally over and on the bar.