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Gymnastics Ab Workout

August 1, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Tired of you standard ab training? Try this gymnastics ab workout. 4 bodyweight exercises: weighted candlestick pulls (body levers / dragon flags) fast candlestick pulls lemon-squeezer (in and outs)/ V-ups windshield wipers More Ab Work: Hanging Leg Raises With Apti Aukhadov Leg Raises with Dmitry Klokov

New Parallel Bars Mount

July 31, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Andy Hunter from William and Mary Gymnastics invents a new skill on parallel bars. The “Hunter”-Side Glide Piked Cut Catch To Handstand on Parallel Bars

Reverse Muscle Ups in 1936 – Leon Stukelj

July 30, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Here is some impressive footage of Leon Stukelj (12 November 1898 – 8 November 1999) on still rings at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Front Lever to Reverse Muscle Up And Inverted Iron Cross

Athletes on YouTube: cdx65

July 30, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Cdx65 is another example of how you can get a nice strength base performing gymnastics movements. Iron Cross pull out Solid Front Lever Back Lever One Arm Chin Up

Core Exercise Combo

July 28, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Tucked L-Sit to L-sit, to the bottom portion of a manna and reverse.

Handstand Form Checklist

July 26, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Here is a quick video of Luis Sarabia showing common handstand form mistakes and their fixes. Place your hands shoulders width apart Shoulder pushing out Elbows lock Head tuck in Back straight

How to build a Gymnastics Mushroom / Pommel Trainer

July 25, 2011 By Gregor Winter

New gymnastics equipment is usually pretty expensive. That is why I am a great fan of DIY equipment projetcs. Over at the GymnasticBodies forums user Breaks explains how he built his own gymnastics mushroom / pommel trainer. Which looks pretty sweet. Also check out his YouTube Channel for some good workouts and his quest to learn circles on his […]

Chen Yibing can’t do Triple Clap Push-Ups

July 17, 2011 By Gregor Winter

Just sayin… Here is some footage of the Chinese Gymnastics Team. I have no Idea what they are talking about though. Note that weighted inverted tuck hold on parallel bars at 1:08. Chen Trying Triple Clap Push-Ups (starting at 0:35)

Gymnastics Training and The Bench Press

July 17, 2011 By Gregor Winter

There is always a lot of talk about the carry-over of gymnastics training to other strength sports. The Bench Press is an important exercise for gymnasts. In interviews I heard a couple of gymnasts mention that benching is an integral part of their weight training workouts. On Gymnastic Bodies, Wangtang also offers an observation he made […]