All Things Gym

Best of Olympic Weightlifting

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

Lat Flys for Shoulder Girdle Mobility

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Over at Gymnastic Bodies Christopher Sommer posted an interesting looking mobility exercise. Lat Flys … and like most gymnastics exercises these look deceptively easy. combines rotator cuff, scapular protraction and scapular retraction all within a single exercise. Recommended dose: 2 to 3 sets of 15-30 reps twice per week.

Dead Squats

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Have you ever tried Dead Squats? Basically doing only the concentric part of a squat. I recently read about it in Josh Bryant’s post How to Win Meets and Influence Squats and Deadlifts: Dead squats develop rate of force development (RFD), which is how quickly one can develop tension in a muscle. Concentric-only muscle actions, with […]

Parellel Bars Planche Dips

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Over at Gymnastic Bodies you can see a demonstration of Planche Dips. An excellent exercise to build upper body pushing strength. Progressions: This movement may also be performed with a tuck, advanced tuck, ½ lay or lay in addition to the straddle planche position demonstrated in the video. And before I get any comments on […]

Weighted Plank

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Planks. This girl is doing it right. The only legitimate way to do this boring exercise is with a bunch of extra weight. Update: “This girl” is Angie Sorensen and she also has a blog called Go Beastess which you should subscribe to. Update #2: Angie wrote an excellent guest post. Check it out! When she […]

Diagonal Stretch by Ido Portal

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Ido Portal posted this photo, together with an explanation of the “Diagonal Stretch”. One of those easier said than done yoga style poses. I failed miserably and needed assistance to get into this position. Give it a try and let us know how you do. Instructions: Stand with your heels together but toes out with […]

Planche Progressions

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Carl Paoli goes through some Planche progressions. hand positions planche lean planche lean with elevated feet (feet on bands) planche lean with elevated feet, one foot free Headstand to Frogstand Frogstand while extending one or both legs Part 3 goes over some tuck Planche variations working towards flat tuck. Part 4 has a bouncing variation […]

Reverse Muscle Ups

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Christopher Sommer posted a video of one of his athletes, Dillon Zirke, doing a Reverse Muscle Up. The equivalent of something basic like a pull up for the pros (See Gregor Saksida’s Reverse Muscle Ups to L Sit Iron Cross). One of the coolest ring exercises if you ask me. Prerequisites: straddle planche or harder […]