How do gymnasts train

**SanHeChuan** · 09-08-2002, 11:09 AM

It seems to me that gymnasts would train for the same qualities of strength, flexibility and explosiveness that martial artist are looking for, so what are their methods?

**ged** · 09-08-2002, 08:44 PM

i have a friend who's a gymnast. he hardly ever lifts weights, does a lot of pullups/pushups and ab exercises, and advocates doing them really slowly. i think he gets most of his size/strength from doing his routines, ie by holding his body in positions for long amounts of time.

i think they aim for a balance of explosiveness and the ability to hold still in those weird positions.

**joedoe** · 09-08-2002, 10:46 PM

Yes, and stance training is useless

**Kempo Guy** · 09-09-2002, 10:48 AM

I believe 'ged' is onto something there. Gymnasts train a lot of static strength exercises (iron cross, L-cross etc.) along with ballistic movements, i.e. using explosive movements to get into these positions. Being able to move in and out of these postitions is where much of the strength is built (and it's quite admirable if you ask me...).

KG

**wall** · 09-10-2002, 03:38 AM

Lots of chinups, handstand pushups and leg lifts. Other than that they just do the routines (which develop amazing strenght) and stretch.

Wall

**IronFist** · 09-10-2002, 06:05 PM

Like this? I dunno.

IronFist

**Kempo Guy** · 09-10-2002, 06:52 PM

Try this link as well.

It gives you a few programs.

**IronFist** · 09-10-2002, 08:04 PM

Kempo Guy, cool link. Those little tool things they have are pretty cool, too. I saw you could order them there for either $39 or $60 or something depending on which ones you wanted. I wonder if you could make them for cheaper? They actually look useful, eh?

There's some cool exercises there, but it looks kind of like the biceps are neglected (but that's kind of to be expected as the biceps aren't usually used to hold you up against gravity).

That's what pullups are for.

IronFist

**Kempo Guy** · 09-11-2002, 08:37 AM

Iron Fist,

I'm pretty sure those handles are pretty easy to make... They look like large push up bars... I've tried some of the exercises with my push up bars and it works pretty well. The exercises I tried were the "L-sit", "Tuck sit" and "Tuck Planche". They are harder than they seem. I wouldn't try to handstands or handstand push ups with my push up bars though...

As for the bi's, I reckon you're referring to chin-ups, right? Yeah, I know, it's semantics

but chin-ups work better for your bi's than regular pull-ups.

KG

**IronFist** · 09-11-2002, 12:01 PM

Dude, you're right. Oops. Wait, chin ups are hands close together palms facing you, right? And pullups are hands far apart palms away from you.

I used to always make sure I said the right one. Oops, I guess I slipped up. Haha.

IronFist

**inic** · 09-11-2002, 12:43 PM

heh, hell i call them all pullups.... and i do 6 different types, which probably all have different names for em, but i just call em all pullups =)

Ka · 09-11-2002, 07:07 PM

I can really recommend any routines for the pomel horse and excerises on the mushroom.
Better yet just take up rockclimbing!

**IronFist** · 09-12-2002, 05:10 PM

Originally posted by Ka
Better yet just take up rockclimbing!

Touché.

Hey, did you mean you "can't" recommend any routines on the pommel horse? You said "can."

IronFist

**IronFist** · 09-12-2002, 09:36 PM

Heh, well I just made a pair of paralettes.

Here's how I did it.

IronFist

**Kempo Guy** · 09-13-2002, 08:52 AM

Iron Fist,

How did they work out?

KG

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