Advanced Frog Stand

[RICK MARVIN TING Ting]

Hi there,Im having trouble with my advanced frog stand.By the way i just started to do this progression.When I try to holdin that position my arms just cant get straight is it normal?or it should be fully straight when doin the advanced frog stand?? :?

My wrist a bit hurt when doin this exercise too does that means im lack of wrist strength and I should juz stay a little longer in frog stand coz i can only do it for 60 sec sometimes and sometimes less.

And also about the legs flexibility what kind of stretching do I have to do or exercises to improve my legs flexibility?

[Blairbob]

Many newcomers will start Advanced FrogStand or Front Lever with some slight bend in their elbows. Ideal is locked out arms, though so think of it as a step in a gradual process.

Advanced Frog Stand probably has more angle in the wrists. Stretch your wrists, more wrist series and more time on your hands and your wrists will eventually get stronger. Just don't mangle them in the process.

As for leg flexibility, just go read this first and maybe visit Stadion.com

http://agt.degreesofclarity.com/stretching/

[Mark Plas]

You can do the advanced frog stand on push up bars or parallettes or parallel bars. That way you can keep your wrists in a neutral position and still practice the frog stand (and other planche progressions) without being bothered by painful wrists.

And as Blairbob says, in the mean time you should also do the wrist series which you can find by searching this forum and also start doing some handstand holds against a wall to strengthen the wrists. Build this up gradually though, because it is easy to injure your wrists, and once they're injured it can take quite some time to heal. A rule of thumb should be: if you feel pain in the wrists, you're training them too heavy and you should cut back on intensity right away. Never train your wrists with pain. Actually, never train anything with pain.

[RICK MARVIN TING Ting]

thanks guys for the tips.Guess back to wrist training again

[Blairbob]

To note, my wrists tend to be weak after I take a break from gym. They are now, definitely.

When I was inserting frog stand as an FSP, I simply had to do them to build my wrists back up rather than feel any effort in the lean. Same goes with handstands.

So the solution was just to get on my hands enough yet not trash them in the process of too much.