Turkish get up: 145lbs

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Dumbbell Weight 145lbs. Some basic strength training I do. I can do this weight easily now, I am training to hit 200lbs for this lift in the near future.

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• Crossfit
• Turkish
• get
• up.

[Valorousness]

The Load, at the time was a Max load, My Form did fault a little bit. The Great thing about this is, it's called a Turkish Get UP! not down. Most people Don't understand that the movement is a lift, not a negative. If I wanted to do a negative I would have down.

Please don't be on your high horse about form and technique with me, I am extremly technical and clean in my movements. This video was many years ago when I just started doing turkish get-ups.

[evanescence2]

they do make 80kg and 85 kg kettlebells from LKB, and I'm sorry but IT IS harder to do a turkish getup with a kettlebell as opposed to a dumbbell, quite simply because the kettlebell is resting on your wrist/forearm which cause a lot of additional stress that you don't incur with a dumbbell.

[Valorousness]

@evanescence2 You are incorrect, a Kettle Bell rests on the wrist and forearm, it's equal resistance as a dumbbell is. it doesn't cause stress unless you are holding the kettle bell incorrectly. If you are holding that KB with a bent wrist, it will be applying pressure. You need to hold a Kettle Bell with a straight Wrist. and it will properly be braced against the forearm

I also do this lift at 175lbs (79.5kgs) on a Barbell which is a lot harder to balance because it is 6 feet in length.

[sammygmartin]

Impressive but do it with ever increasing kettlebells. When the weight is ditributed like a dumbbell it is totaly different to a kettlebell. Awesome strength shown but there is a reason we use kettlebells. Can you do it with a 60kg kettlebell????? If so amazing, if not stick to the bells.

[Valorousness]

@sammygmartin The kettle bell is an equal weight right down the arm, which is nearly the same as a dumbbell. I usually do my turkish lift a barbell, which is twice as hard as a Kettle bell. I haven't seen a kettle bell large enough for the weight I need. I'm using a 175Lbs Barbell at the moment for my turkish lift. The video is on my channel.

[ASUSTUD]

are you able to go back down?

[Valorousness]

quite easily.

[thamaestro1]

What? No get down? Impressive half-rep...

[DAMAGEDJUSTICE12]

thats the first half of a turkish get up

[YouJohnny5]

It's like saying a pushup is just the push only and not the down LOL.... You Tube Hero's

[CYI3ERPUNK]

ok some constructive criticism, your form is pretty awful

and you did only half of the exercise, is that supposed to be impressive?

this would be a MUCH better video if you showed doing the complete turkish getup (and down) with a weight that you could perform the exercise properly and full range of motion

fyi i am no pro, and i only use 20-30 lbs right now in my tk getups, but i focus on keeping proper form at all times, as i get better ill use more, but not sacrifice my form to do so

[jrumbel]

All the power to you...i cannot do a Turkish get up with this kind of weight, but the above statements are true.....it is not as easy with a kettle bell...with a dumbbell the weight is bearing downwards through an aligned wrist/forearm. With the KB, the weight is off center (ie to the back of the forearm) thereby requiring the forearm flexors to hold the wrist straight. IF you have not tried it with both a kettlebell and a dumbbell then you truly cannot understand the mechanics involved.

[ahmednabil]

@Valorousness

its simply amazing that some people think that a kettlebell rep would be harder than a dumbell rep.

it is so obvious that a kb would be much easier , its more balanced and its weight is backwards so it pulls your arm backwards as its supposed to be .

yes its half a rep. but its about 64 kg , with a dambbell , which is harder .

[777Yonatan]

You got to go back down..

[Wiegieboard]

ITT: Fuckers who need to be posting their own 145lb Turkish getup

[justinhardt1]

@Valorousness I'm going to have to agree with evanescence2 on this one.. still an incredible feat, though.