The muscle-up is a movement that transitions from a hanging position below the rings to a supported position, arms extended, above the rings. It is a combination movement containing both a pull-up and a dip. Far from a contrivance, the muscle-up is hugely functional. With a muscle-up, you’ll be able to surmount any object on which you can get a finger hold–if you can touch it, you can get up on it. The value here for survival, police, firefighter, and military use is impossible to overstate. Wor

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148K views · 2.6K reactions | “The muscle-up is astonishingly difficult to perform, unrivaled in building upper-body strength, a critical survival skill, and most amazingly of all, virtually unknown. “This movement gets you from under things to on them. Let your imagination run.” –Greg Glassman in “The Muscle-Up,” published in the CrossFit Journal in 2002  https://journal.crossfit.com/article/the-muscle-up | CrossFit | Facebook