Should the Turkish Get Up be a prerequisite to the Clean + Press…
https://go.chasingstrength.com/sjs-e-shoulder/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl0k8C9M7oI&lc=Ugw4Q7qTIxEv9xfc8j54AaABAg Or rather - “Why would the TGU be a prerequisite to clean and press?” … Which was a comment left on one of my videos called, “10 Reasons You Should Not Be Doing The Clean + Press.” (I’ll leave a link to it in the description below in case you haven’t seen it.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl0k8C9M7oI&lc=Ugw4Q7qTIxEv9xfc8j54AaABAg Some coaches, even PhDs, consider the TGU a worthless exercise - a circus trick - that has very little, if any carryover into anything else other than doing TGUs. Here’s why, from almost 20 years of doing the TGU I can definitively say they’re wrong. The Turkish Get Up teaches you and trains your body to do the following: 1. Where your shoulder “lives” in relation to the ground and your body 2. Mobilizes your shoulder, restoring lost ranges of motion like full shoulder flexion (putting your arm straight over your head 3. Where to ...