{"id":9411,"date":"2022-06-21T15:42:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T13:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.relentlessmethod.com\/rm-2-0\/?p=9411"},"modified":"2024-03-15T09:00:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T08:00:49","slug":"getting-better-at-gymnastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.relentlessmethod.com\/de\/getting-better-at-gymnastics\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting better at gymnastics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You are flapping around the rig or rings and you wonder why you never make that muscle-up? If that sounds familiar then readon.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Strength matters<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Chances are that you have skipped the assistance work that your coach told you to do after class or between classes. Like Coach Sommers said on a forum a long time ago. \u201cThe quickest way to get good at gymnastics is to get strong. Technique is easier\u201d.<\/p>

I don\u2019t know if I completely agree but on the whole he is right.<\/p>

Most people are just too weak.<\/p>

For instance in the ring muscle-up males tend to be too weak and\/or stiff close to the body in the bottom of the ring dip or in the transition. If you are good at \u201cPerfect pull-ups\u201d you are also going to be good at Butterfly Chest to bar pull-ups. It\u2019s just mechanics.<\/p>

The talk about that \u201cI lose the rhythm\u201d is nonsense. You are too weak to keep up the pace with yourself.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Technique matters<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Strength will take you lengths, however you need to get efficient to get to the next level.<\/p>

Think of technique as efficiency.<\/p>

Imagine if a Strongman had weightlifting mobility and technique. They could snatch the world! That is the extreme though, but they do muscle-clean over 200kg so strength takes you far. But to get a 260+ Clean and Jerk you need skill or efficiency.<\/p>

Same goes for gymnastics. You can have 10 strict pull-ups but only 12 kipping since you skipped the beat swing work. You need to master the basics.<\/p>

I train basics almost every day in my warmups or\u2026 skill preparation if you so choose. You never get too good for basics.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Sequencing<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Our recommendation is that you first address some strength issues and then some tech and so on.<\/p>

You could choose a strict path or a kipping path but we believe that a longer progression by undulating strength and skill stimulates more things per month spent as a whole plus gives your head a well-needed variation plan.<\/p>

Good luck!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you flapping around the rig or rings, wondering why you never make that muscle-up? If that sounds familiar then readon.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":9412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-gymnastics","category-relentless-ai"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 07:19:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.relentlessmethod.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.relentlessmethod.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.relentlessmethod.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.relentlessmethod.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.relentlessmethod.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9411"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.relentlessmethod.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14210,"href":"https:\/\/www.relentlessmethod.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411\/revisions\/14210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.relentlessmethod.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.relentlessmethod.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.relentlessmethod.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.relentlessmethod.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}