I'm new to this and Gymnastic Training.. :)

Hello Everyone,

I'm new to this forum.. I thought I'd join because I like the idea of training like a Gymnast and the typical belief is that you have to be 3 or 4 years old in order to start training. Well, I'm 40 and I obviously have no plans in entering the olympics.. With that being said.. Over the past 6 years, i've been doing some extensive search about adult gymnastics training, and not only have I found a ton of good information about the subject, I came across this site.. I've purchased the Gymnastics bodies and coming back on this site, I now see that there are step-by-step online training courses.. I've taken a adult gymnastics course and I must say that I've felt better and trained muscles I never trained before with weights. I like liftingw eights but, it gets boring and my body become disproportionate and i'm not as strong as I am lead to believe.. Now, I go in the gym dooing very little weights- mostly strength training, but I find myself doig more bodyweight and bodyweight cardio workouts for more practice functuon fitness.. Well, wrapping up.. I welcome any responses and tips for my training.. I've found a YMCA near my home where they teach a adult gymnastic class.. Now, I'll be on my way to having a stronger, leaner and more flexible body..

Take care all.. :-)

Hi Bishop!

I'm also kind of new to this place (although I've been reading the forum for quite a while now). I definitely recommend the Foundation Series, I'd recommend it to anyone but in your case even more so! It will guide you step by step, all you have to do is follow the course and if you have any queries or questions or anything there are plenty of well minded people here to help =)

Good luck in your Gymnastics journey!

Welcome to the forum! I think you will love this place. I've been following the forum for 4-5 years and I never got tired of it.
There are alot of friendly and professional people on this board that will help you. Ages range from young to old (myself 49).
You will need very little equipment and can do all training at home. I would recommend you to get F1 to get an excellent start.

Welcome to the forum, I am relatively new as well but this forum is full of knowledgable and helpful people of all ages(i am 14 btw:P).As the others said i would also suggest to buy the foundation course, it is really good.

I wish you good luck in your training:)

Mike.

Hi Im new to these forums too and i think i will introudece myself a little here, cause i dont feel like starting a new topic. I searched too alot about gymnastics because i thought it could help me alot in parkour too which has been my 1st hobby for like 3-4 years and because of long winters we have here its pretty hard to do parkour here on winter. I even thought that am i too old to start gymnastics but when reading this forum i realised that im not even near being too old. ofc im not aiming for olympics, but to be even stronger and increase my mobility. What hints do you guys have for me? i got muscle up on bars and rings 3 years ago, but then i started military service for 9 months and i did nothing at that time. now im stronger but i cant get muscle up. I think the problem is the transition cause i can do dips with 20kg added weight and bulgarian dips on rings/normal ring dips 3x9 and i have done high pullups for 2 weeks now. Is my problem with the pullups? not pulling fast enough. any tips how i could learn the transition in muscle up bar/rings. Greetings from finland and i hope you can understand my english

First of all from what I've heard you might think you're doing a bulgarian dip, but you're probably not.  It goes something like this.  Put your back against a wall, with your butt, lower back, upper back, shoulders, head, elbows and hands touching.  Now lift your arms up until your elbows are the same height as your shoulders.  THAT is what a bulgarian dip is like, except you aren't supported by a wall, and your supporting your weight on some rings.  WAY harder than people think it is.

As for the muscle up, have you tried working russian dips?

To the OP, welcome to the club!  Feel free to ask any questions, there's a great community here.  I look forward to seeing more of you about the place.

Bipocni said:

First of all from what I've heard you might think you're doing a bulgarian dip, but you're probably not.  It goes something like this.  Put your back against a wall, with your butt, lower back, upper back, shoulders, head, elbows and hands touching.  Now lift your arms up until your elbows are the same height as your shoulders.  THAT is what a bulgarian dip is like, except you aren't supported by a wall, and your supporting your weight on some rings.  WAY harder than people think it is.

 

As for the muscle up, have you tried working russian dips?

 

To the OP, welcome to the club!  Feel free to ask any questions, there's a great community here.  I look forward to seeing more of you about the place.

Im pretty much sure those were bulgarian dips.I searched around this forum and i read topic explaining bulgarian dips and how to do them. Tried it out in the front of the mirror at the gym and as you explained thats how i did them. I only got 2x4 of em cause those ARE hard. Never felt anything in my chest the next day after normal ring dips but after bulgarian dips i really felt it ( in a good way ofc). I always do a good warmup before even going for normal ring dips ( few pushups, stretching with stick and other moves for my shoulders.)

Not going for the RTO dips yet though... Dont know if i can handle em yet.

Never tried or heard about russian dips but i should dig it up and try it out! thanks Bipocni.

Lalli said:

Im pretty much sure those were bulgarian dips.I searched around this forum and i read topic explaining bulgarian dips and how to do them. Tried it out in the front of the mirror at the gym and as you explained thats how i did them. I only got 2x4 of em cause those ARE hard. Never felt anything in my chest the next day after normal ring dips but after bulgarian dips i really felt it ( in a good way ofc). I always do a good warmup before even going for normal ring dips ( few pushups, stretching with stick and other moves for my shoulders.)

 

Not going for the RTO dips yet though... Dont know if i can handle em yet.

 

Never tried or heard about russian dips but i should dig it up and try it out! thanks Bipocni.

Congratulations on the bulgarian dip!  Those are supposed to be really hard...

Another thing to bear in mind with the muscle up is there are roughly 4 different types, with different bio-mechanics for each.  In order of difficulty, it goes:

1. Straight bar muscle up (explosive)

2. Rings muscle up (explosive)

3. Rings muscle up (slow)

4. Straight bar muscle up (slow)

Depending on which one you're aiming for, you'll need to train slightly differently.  But another piece of advice would be to work (slow) false grip pullups, aiming to touch your chest to the bar/hands.  The higher you can get, the closer you are to the bottom position of a dip and the easier the transition will be.  Work these slowly, under control, because it will definitely build more strength.  You can always do them fast with a kip for your actual muscle up attempts.

Lalli said:

Not going for the RTO dips yet though... Dont know if i can handle em yet.

Yeah, they're pretty insane.  Even RTO pushups are ridiculous for most people.

Bipocni said:

Congratulations on the bulgarian dip!  Those are supposed to be really hard...

 

Another thing to bear in mind with the muscle up is there are roughly 4 different types, with different bio-mechanics for each.  In order of difficulty, it goes:

 

1. Straight bar muscle up (explosive)

2. Rings muscle up (explosive)

3. Rings muscle up (slow)

4. Straight bar muscle up (slow)

 

Depending on which one you're aiming for, you'll need to train slightly differently.  But another piece of advice would be to work (slow) false grip pullups, aiming to touch your chest to the bar/hands.  The higher you can get, the closer you are to the bottom position of a dip and the easier the transition will be.  Work these slowly, under control, because it will definitely build more strength.  You can always do them fast with a kip for your actual muscle up attempts.

Thanks and thanks for the muscle up tips. Going to try them out as soon as i can and hope i can manage to do it soon. I think after i have learned the muscle up i could consider to start training for BL and FL and yeah, i should try out RTO pushups first so i can get the feel of it.