Lyle McDonald wrote a good article explaining How to Train the Calves. Calf Muscles gastroc is primarily a fast-twitch muscle – responds to heavy loads soleus is primarily a slow-twitch muscle – responds to longer sets and more of a fatigue stimulus straight legs calf exercises work both the gastroc and soleus bent leg calf exercises works only […]
Top 5 Still Rings Training Routines Tokyo 2011
Here are the (currently) top 5 Still Rings training routines from the 2011 Tokyo Gymnastics Championships Chen Yibing Yan Mingyong Matteo Morandi Matteo Angioletti Jonathan Horton
Top 3 Rings Routines 2011 Challenger Cup Ghent
1 Petrounias, Eleftherios D 6,8 E 9,100 Total 15,900 2 Luo, Xuan D 6,8 E 8,950 Total 15,750 3 Van Gelder, Yuri D 6,6 E 9,075 Total 15,675 Complete Still Rings Finals can be seen here.
Anterior and Posterior Pelvic Tilt Routines
Give troublesome some upvotes for writing this post: “An everyday workout/warmup that you can use to fix your postural dysfunction.“ Very important: brace your abs and glutes throughout the stretches in this. If your lower back gets tight after these exercises, you’re either pushing your range of motion too much or not bracing your abs […]
2011 Challenger Cup Ghent – Still Rings SR EF
Update: Here are the Top 3 Rings Routines in better quality. Here are all the still rings routines from the event final at the 2011 Challenger Cup in Ghent.If you find better quality videos on the tubes let me know in the comments. Results 1 Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE) 15.900 Gold Medal2 Xuan Luo (CHN) 15.750 Silver […]
Wynn, Horton Still Rings at Visa Championships
I am wondering why US gymnasts can’t maintain a hollow body position in elements like maltese? They are all arching their backs. It can’t be that they are all not strong enough. Maybe it’s a coaching error. Brandon Wynn Still Rings Jonathan Horton Still Rings
2011 Visa Championships Videos
Here are some resources that have clips of the 2011 Visa Championship routines. Universal Sports has a complete replay of the men’s final (requires silverlight)GNGymnastsMegan VandebemtUSAGymnasticsorg (here you will find every routine later this week)ItsNastiaFan101 So far I enjoyed Brandon Wynn’s Floor routine. As is appropriate for a rings guy, he does a low planche /maltese on floor […]
Huge List of Training Programs
Here is is list of about every hypertrophy / powerlifting / olympic weightlifting / bodybuilding / fat loss routine. ——————————————————————————– Hypertrophy Beginners/Intermediates Kelly Baggett Build Muscle & Lose Fat Simultaneously?- http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/kelly3.htm A Training Philosophy For Solid Mass Gain- http://www.higher-faster-sports.com/…hilosophy.html The Skinny-Fat Ecto Part II- http://www.higher-faster-sports.com/skinnyfatecto2.html Christian Thibaudeau Ab Training for Athletes and Babe Hounds- http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459670 Part-Time Beast- http://www.**********.co.uk/m_854463/tm.htm The MacGyver […]
German Gymnasts Qualifying for Tokyo 2011 WC
Some clips from this weekends World Championships Qualification in Altendiez. Faban Hambüchen High Bar, D: 7,5 Philipp Boy High Bar Marcel Nguyen Parallel Bars