How Difficult is the Salmon Ladder from Ninja Warrior?

this episode was supported by curiosity stream Ninja Warrior is a game show where competitors try to complete four grueling obstacle courses to achieve total victory what I love about the show is that the obstacles are impossibly hard of the thousands of people that have entered both the original Japanese version and the American spin-off only six people have ever successfully completed every stage some of the stuff is truly nuts for the elite athlete only so here's the challenge to get a taste of how difficult this is really I want to attempt just one single obstacle from the show the Salmon Ladder is a stage 2 obstacle and it usually knocks out about 1/3 of competitors to attempt it you have to manipulate the bar up the ladder using upper body strength and this weird technique usually the goal is anywhere between 4 and 7 rungs and you're through to the next obstacle so how long will it take an average bloke to conquer the Salmon Ladder let's say seven rungs let's find out this is day one hour zero I've chosen to train a primal gym in Edinburgh a top class obstacle course training facility that has a Salmon Ladder by the way if you want to give this stuff a try and you're in the area this place is highly recommended there's open sessions and there's also great coaching available too so thanks to primal gym for letting me train and film here so what you have to do is you have to take this this bar do a pull-up and then push the bar up and over onto the next rung I've seen this happen where one end catches in the other end doesn't catch I don't know what would happen you kind of freak out if that happened or the whole thing just misses entirely and you just fall all the way down backwards onto the floor don't be pretty terrifying experience I mean what was that like 12 13 feet up oh ho that was impressive okay I was horrible I got up to him was like I don't want to go up three white flat my first attempts at the Salmon Ladder didn't go too well [Music] [Music] so it turns out they're people who do ninja warrior' actually a bit stronger than I thought it was I can't let this beat me but I'm totally done for today my forearms and fingers are in agony but for now it's defeated me okay I have two major problems one of them is strength and endurance I just don't have what it takes to do that move seven times I get tired and I fall off the other major problem is my grip strength the bar that is used on the Salmon Ladder it's actually really really thick it's much thicker than a pull-up bar and as a result my hands get really really tired as I go up the ladder and I end up falling off I don't really know how to train for grip but I have seen a video from the rock where he uses a towel and does pull-ups on the towel to improve his grip strength so I'm just gonna try that I'm looking to conquer the Salmon Ladder as quickly as possible with the least number of training sessions so I'm gonna push it really hard today [Music] tell you what eyes absolutely brutal I do feel like I do an awful lot of pull-ups on this channel I'm already noticing quite a big improvement from the last trainer session particularly when I'm training with the towel my grip is much much better [Music] so I'm deliberately training on this really really big football goal because it's so chunky my hands can't fit all the way around normally on a pillow our hands are in that position here that kind of like this this makes pull-ups really really difficult you really start to lose grip strength very quickly and that's exactly why I'm training parkour rep stress [Music] after two hard strength-building sessions I was feeling confident and returned to the gym only to discover that there was no improvement right in the noggin I was like can I try and correct this sorry columns giving us hand and I'm too short to go home forget box with no noticeable benefit from my training method I decided to change absolutely nothing and simply carry on [Music] I've already got what I wanted out with this project which was to gain a better appreciation of how difficult Ninja Warrior really is it's hard this is how hard I've been training for just one obstacle I can't imagine doing for entire courses with the cameras and the lights in the audience and the pressure Ninja Warrior is something else [Music] really starting to notice results now particularly with the grip strength is way way better than it was [Music] having felt that my grip strength had improved I gave the Salmon Ladder another goal attempting to get seven rungs up the ladder [Music] a few days off a little better strength trout training error on like a week between training sessions I feel I was strong today no problem fantastic I know you get that down if you guys enjoyed documentaries as I do then you should check out curiosity stream its a streaming service dedicated to documentaries and nonfiction and it has thousands upon thousands of hours of top quality content spanning science nature history 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Channel: Mike Boyd

Views: 7,747,622

Keywords: salmon ladder, ninja warrior, muscle ups

Id: m-r8nEFY1ck

Length: 10min 45sec (645 seconds)

Published: Tue May 21 2019