All Things Gym

Best of Olympic Weightlifting

A Collection of Exercises and their Variations from Around the World.

L-Sit Progressions

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David Durante talks Chris Spealler through some L-Sit progressions. As with everything in gymnastics… looks deceivingly simple, yet it’s not. Since this is just a 2 minute video it can’t show all there is to that exercise. In Building the Gymnastic Body the progressions are broken down even further. (Arms locked at all times) L […]

Planche Progressions with David Durante

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David Durante has another gymnastics training video. This time he talks about Planche Progressions. What it is not: a step by step guide to achieve the Planche What it is:  an outlook of what is required for high level gymnastics elements In the 25 minute video he talks about Progressions to prepare your wrist flexibility, […]

Weighted Reverse Plank

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Meanwhile in China … You know that planks (like all static exercises) don’t rank particularly high on my favorite exercises list. That is unless they are done with extra weight of course. We saw planks in different variations here, here or even one from Ilya here. One variation that was missing was the  Weighted Reverse Plank: […]

Car Push Team Workout

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Here is a cool team workout. In a recent Barbell Shrugged Podcast episode Doug showed how to do Car Pushes. A great substitute for all us Prowlerless people. Pretty straightforward exercise. As Doug says in the video, your arms should be locked at all times and you should keep your body as low as possible. […]

Back Lever Progressions Tutorial

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Daniel Vadnal has a Back Lever Tutorial for you. He goes over some very important points I wish somebody told me back when I started out doing Back Levers. The progressions he covers are pretty much the consensus of the gymnastics world when it comes to starting out boys (6-9) in this movement. Don’t skip a progression […]