Muscle Up Tutorials

If you are like me and want to raise your elbows over the freaking bar, then watch these videos and practice everyday.  There is more advice out there, but I found these three particularly helpful.

How to Do Beginner Pull Ups and Chin Ups Training Tutorial

This first one is a beginner pull up and chin up video by Iwayfitness.  I like how he demonstrated both chin ups and pull ups side by side.  It made me think of some parkour training in which I forced myself to condition both my right and left sides.  There isn't any direct muscle up instruction in this video per se, but these exercises will surely build the basic strength and coordination I will need to get there. 

Kipping Muscle-Up Tutorial: With Lead-Up Exercise Progressions

This video is very thorough.  I've already incorporated the three lead ups and I have to say, that although I am only 60% there, the jumping muscle up has made me feel that this is totally doable in three months time.  Global Body Weight Training has some other excellent tutorials.

Muscle Up Tutorial

This video by Learn More Parkour's Jonathan Tapp has a couple different variations.  I haven't tried it yet, but the forearm cheat seems like a good progression towards the real thing, even though it looks awkward and wrong, but I guess that's why it's a progression isn't it?
 

My take away from these is that you have to learn the Kipping pull up before the muscle up.  I think that wall ups may help, but since I have the huge advantage of using my feet, they aren't the real deal. 

If you have any suggestions or corrections please leave a comment.  I am by no means an expert in this field - just to let you know.

Have fun training!

Keith