My new obsession is to gain the ability to swing on monkey bars, but I'm pretty out of shape at this point and it's fairly miserable just to hang from one bar at the kids playground in the park (I go when nobody else is there, I wish there was an adult monkey bar gym somewhere around here). I don't dare take one hand off. I've started to do a strength training regimen of mostly shoulder, chest and elbow reps, but what hurts most is just my hands on the bars, even on gym equipment to pull stuff down. How can I reduce or eliminate pain and blisters on my hands, and strengthen my body to do this stuff? I guess the same strength training I need to do pull-ups (not sure if they even have a bar for that at my gym, or maybe they do)...
I want to at least be this good...
And my fantasy (the video that really attracted me to this stuff) is this:
How cool would it be to travel around like that? Effortlessly? :P Of course they're specially evolved for that, but still. Maybe in my lucid dreams (if I can even sustain a lucid dream). :roll: