Tyler
01-28-2004, 03:53 AM
Check out this article on strength training gymnastics style: http://www.dragondoor.com/cgi-bin/articles.pl?rm=mode3&articleid=229
It's written by Christopher Sommer, who appears to be a pretty high level coach. It's a good article and offers two excellent progressions.
I had a chance to meet the world champion on rings a few weeks ago and I have to say that the top gymnasts are even stronger than I could have imagined. And check out the kids in this article! They are very impressive.
The kid in the first picture in that article is doing an out of this world strength hold called a Manna. Imagine starting in an L-sit and your legs just keep going up. You hit a V-sit and they start going back. I've never seen anyone do one of those before, much less a young kid. So this coach obviously knows what he's doing.
Tyler Hass
It's written by Christopher Sommer, who appears to be a pretty high level coach. It's a good article and offers two excellent progressions.
I had a chance to meet the world champion on rings a few weeks ago and I have to say that the top gymnasts are even stronger than I could have imagined. And check out the kids in this article! They are very impressive.
The kid in the first picture in that article is doing an out of this world strength hold called a Manna. Imagine starting in an L-sit and your legs just keep going up. You hit a V-sit and they start going back. I've never seen anyone do one of those before, much less a young kid. So this coach obviously knows what he's doing.
Tyler Hass