The Holds PR Thread

I don't know if this thread will go anywhere but I'll give it a try. This is "The Holds PR Thread". I have been doing lots of holds lately because of an injury I have and the holds training doesn't seem to aggravate my injury.

The holds I have been doing are these: (1) handstand hold with feet against the wall for balance - (2) pullup bar hang hold - (3) parallel wall sit hold - and (4) ab plank hold. I believe the pullup bar hang hold is a StrongMan event.

So post your times for anyone of these or any others you come up with. How about an iron cross with 20 lb. dumbells, or even a weighted squat hold in the parallel position. How about standing on one leg with the other leg fully extended forward, or standing on one leg with eyes closed (a balance hold). Any hold is good. Hopefully we will get some participation.

So I will start with mine:

(1) handstand hold feet agains the wall for balance: 1:33 (7/2/2007)

(2) pullup bar hang hold: 2:02 (7/2/2007)

(3) wall sit hold (my weakness): 2:11 (6/14/2007)

(4) ab plank hold: 4:14 (3/6/2007)

I hope we get some action here.

[gymgirl]

cool thread pierini! I don't have any recent PR holds but you reminded me I need to keep working on my L-sit holds!

[Bob44]

It will be fun to see what kind of holds people come up with.

Handstand hold feet against wall
1:30 7/03/07

Wall Sit feet flat
4:00 7/03/07

Tuck Planche on parallettes
1:00 7/03/07

Tuck Front Lever
50 sec. 7/03/07

[Bob44]

Tue 7/17/07 Wall sit 4:15

Awesome Bob! I'm still trying to get to 2:30.

Standard grip pullup hang hold for 2:08 (prior best was 2:02) at a morning BW of 182 lbs.

[yorkie85]

Advanced Tuck Planche - 5 seconds. Finally hit it after going through several transitional variations I made up to progress from a regular tuck planche.

Thanks for the post. How about a video clip one of these days.

[yorkie85]

I may well post a video clip if I can borrow a camera. As long as I don't consequently develop an ego problem though. lol

I like your thinking. It is always better to have a piece of humble pie. It's better than a slice of ego cake.

[minime]

ab plank hold 2:44 yesterday

[dustin]

Question - the Pullup hold.. is that with your arms completely bent ie. at the top of the movement, or at 90 degrees?

Hi minime, that's great, your 2:44 ab plank hold. 3:00 is right around the corner. Did you read Jack's journal, the young 13 year old who posts in the Online Journal. He did a 5:00 ab plank the other day. Absolutely amazing.

Hi Dustin, the standard grip pullup hang hold I do is arms fully extended, hanging at the fully-extended position, with only a very slight bend in the elbows, as needed, to ease the strain off my shoulders. Give it a try. Your forearms should be what fails first.

[Bob44]

Wed 8/08/07 2:00 handstand hold on wall

Thur 8/09/07 2 min ab plank

Pulling this thread out from page 2 and posting some best effort updates for myself.

1) handstand hold against the wall on 10/18/2007 - 1:35

2) ab plank hold on 10/25/2007 - 4:32