Is the Dynamic Physique real ?

[Andrew Long]

I must say seeing it all laid out there certainly increased my motivation. Best of all I finally stopped moving around so much! Now I can actually have a stable life allowing me to train properly and consistently! Couldn't be better timing. After going through the courses over and over and playing around a lot with all the movements I can safely say the first few exercises are definitely going to take the longest. Most of what comes in f2 and towards the end of f1 I can see being within reach once the first few progressions are mastered for me. It is nice to know that it won't take 3 months or more for every progression.

[Keenan Smith]

Hardly never released; but rather greatly expanded.  Where do you think all of the courses (currently released and forthcoming) came from?   

 

As for the Foundation Courses, thank you for the kind words.  Foundation is indeed the very best basic GST course available anywhere in the world.  However notice the word basic.  There is much more information that needs to be covered; however before we can begin "calculus", it is helpful for you to have first learned your "multiplication tables."

 

 

I'll give you a little preview of what is forthcoming.  This will hopefully serve as a wake up call for those of you who have been taking a very casual approach to their Foundation training.

 

 

The GB University curriculum;

Note:  ALL of the following courses have already been photographed and filmed except for R4 and the second half of H3.  Now all of you need to work harder and master Foundation so that I feel comfortable releasing the new courses.  Note that I said 'master', not sloppily rush through.

 

And NO, I am not going to share course specifics; except with GB Seminar attendees (as has been the case for the last 18 months or so).

 

Also be aware that I am a LONG time US Jr National Team Coach with very high standards and the following course prerequisites and corequisites will be strictly enforced.  For example, if you purchase R2 and have not yet completed the necessary prerequisites (F3, H1, H2, R1) and come onto the private R2 forum requesting assistance because the course is too hard for you and you just can't seem to make any progress; most of the advice you receive will consist of "quit being a dumbass and go back and fix your deficiencies."   

 

Foundation 1; prerequisites = none

                       corequisite = H1

 

Foundation 2; prerequisite = F1

                       corequisites = H1, H2

 

Foundation 3; prerequisites = F2

                       corequisites = H1, H2

 

Foundation 4; prerequisites = F3

                       corequisites = H1, H2

 

Handstand 1; prerequisites = none

                      corequisite = F1

 

Handstand 2; prerequisites = F1

                      corequisites = H1, F2

 

Handstand 3; prerequisite = F3

                      corequisites = H1, H2

 

Rings 1; prerequisites = F2

              corequisites = F3, H1, H2

 

Rings 2; prerequisites = F3, H1, H2, R1

              corequisite = F4

 

Rings 3; prerequisites = F4, H1, H2, R2

 

Rings 4; prerequisites = F4, H1, H2, R3

 

Movement 1; prerequisites = none

                      corequisites = F1, F2, F3, H1

 

Movement 2; prerequisites = F3, M1

                      corequisites = F4, H1, H2

 

Movement 3; prerequisites = F4, M2

                      corequisites = H1, H2

 

Hungarian; prerequisites = F4, H1, H2, M3

 

 

Unlike other conditioning 'programs', all of these courses are completely interconnected.  It fact it may help to think of all of these courses as actually being one large single course (GST) that has been broken down into 15 bite size pieces.

 

Yours in Fitness,

Coach Sommer

Now I know when I'll finally be in considerable range to  officially start ring work. I'm even more determined to be extremely smooth and elegant with my movement mastery so that I can do it finally!

Coach, do the credentials for any of the certifications transfer over to other credentials in other fields such as personal training, strength and conditioning specialists, and physical therapists?

[Robert Del Popolo]

This looks extreme. Im imagining how badassly difficult the course will be and I dont think I can actually get anywhere close. I really appreciate the heads up on all the courses, I forgot about movement thinking it was being intergrated in the foundation series.

[Mikkel Ravn]

This looks extreme. Im imagining how badassly difficult the course will be and I dont think I can actually get anywhere close.

 

Why?

[Richard Hamilton]

Once you get past zombie mobility levels, gains speed up tremendously.

This is reassuring Cory... I'm looking forward to the day I'm no longer a zombie! It feels like I'm spinning my wheels with the strength a lot of the time!

[Andrew Long]

One thing I'd love to know is how far does rings go.... I'd imagine it probably won't have Maltese work but perhaps an iron cross?

[Joel Tomkins]

5-7 years would be the absolute upper end of the curriculum with 3-4 years being more an average. Once you get past zombie mobility levels, gains speed up tremendously.

Whoa... 3-4 years! I am a long way from being past zombie level mobility though... Looking forward to it though

[Keilani Gutierrez]

Whoa... 3-4 years! I am a long way from being past zombie level mobility though... Looking forward to it though

just gotta work through the initial crampage and the rest is history

 

my hip mobility has steadily increased from introducing a few focused stretches, shoulder mobility is being worked on with F&H, while my hip catches upto F iM's. 

 

one day, I got ridiculous cramps in my upper shoulders during an H1 session and it was like BOOM, that was the on switch for my trapz. a few weeks ago, something similar happened with my hip flexors/shins. >_< yes, shins.

 

I feel like i'm a car being jacked up while in gear with the wheels spinning, once the mobility has set in, it's like someone kicked the jack from underneath and you're burning out.

 

the tested athletes say that the first Foundation series is the most challenging in terms of momentum, just gotta keep moving forward with where you begin from

 

#amped

[Coach Sommer]

One thing I'd love to know is how far does rings go.... I'd imagine it probably won't have Maltese work but perhaps an iron cross?

Your imagination is wrong.

Yours in Fitness,

Coach Sommer

[Mikkel Ravn]

Your imagination is wrong.

Yours in Fitness,

Coach Sommer

Ambiguity elevated to an art form!

 

So either there's both maltese and IC, just maltese and no IC, or there's none of them. Sigh! 

[Keilani Gutierrez]

Ambiguity elevated to an art form!

 

So either there's both maltese and IC, just maltese and no IC, or there's none of them. Sigh! 

I remember Coach mentioning about how his athletes work Malteses after having a solid IC and training Inverted Cross after having an established Maltese + ring handstand. i have no clue about the victorian though, so i guess that comes last. #daydreaming

 

how rad. 

 

it is about to get really-real! xD 

[Coach Sommer]

For those who are unrelenting and focused on all the components of their foundation and handstand work (especially the integrated mobility), it is indeed about to get "really real".

For everyone else, from those who prefer to "dabble", to those refuse to follow the programming, to those who continue to insist that 'the world is flat' (meaning that they remain attached to their own unapproven opinions); it will remain merely business as usual. That is to say; a little work, a little enterTRAINment and very little actual progress.

GST is ALWAYS a fair proposition; you get out of it what you put into it according to the principles of GST. This is not my rule, but nature's - and nature accepts no excuses.

Yours in Fitness,

Coach Sommer

[Andrew Long]

Your imagination is wrong.

Yours in Fitness,

Coach Sommer

I take this to mean there is a good possibility of Maltese work in the ring series. I certainly will not be slacking off for this program. Time to start showing people my recordings so I can get more eyes on my form I think.

[Robert Del Popolo]

Why?

Unlike you I dont have a Side Lever, and im pretty impressed by that already. I meant that rings would probably include HBP on rings or something ( a student of GST did this on youtube). This is something i cant see myself doing anytime soon, so thats why. Maybe im wrong but at the moment I feel like im going to achieve a 100 kilo bench before the sPl.

[Mikkel Ravn]

Well, don't quit on us now!

 

Of course it will take time, but if you stick with it, you'll be stronger, more patient (and wiser, in terms of training) than 99,5% of the population. Don't worry about time. I'm 37, and I have no age anxiety, I'll reach my goals in due time. 

 

Oh, and don't forget to have fun along the way...

[Andrew Long]

I am so far away I can barely see myself doing a flat tuck planche but I am pretty confident that if I am strict with this program ill achieve well beyond my imagination.

[Keilani Gutierrez]

I am so far away I can barely see myself doing a flat tuck planche but I am pretty confident that if I am strict with this program ill achieve well beyond my imagination.

everyone's got their bottleneck, just gotta work through it

 

I'm rooting for ya!

[Andrew Long]

Haha thanks Keilani! High reps is mine..... Once I get into the low rep side of things then I will shoot forward but in the meantime I have gone to the begginig to really focus on perfect form getti that body tension right so only the parts of my body that should be moving are and building my endurance. I can do most of the lower rep exercises in f1 and f2 perfectly fine bar a few ( L-Russian dips......) so I think once f1 is done most of f2 will be a breeze in comparison especially from all the extra gains I am getting from f1. Looking forward to f3 then!

[Kamali Downey]

Coach/Cory,

 

Can you wet our appetites a bit? 

 

We know at end of F4, one can expect HBP, RC, Straddle Planche, FL, etc....

 

What comes at end of R3 and R4? and Movement1,2, and 3?

[Kasper Stangerup]

 

 

Don't worry about time. I'm 37, and I have no age anxiety, I'll reach my goals in due time. 

 

Hey! So am I, and I'm Danish as well! Small world...

[Coach Sommer]

Coach/Cory,

 

Can you wet our appetites a bit? 

 

We know at end of F4, one can expect HBP, RC, Straddle Planche, FL, etc....

 

What comes at end of R3 and R4? and Movement1,2, and 3?

 

It ruins Christmas if you know what the gifts are ahead of time.

 

Yours in Fitness,

Coach Sommer

[Andrew Long]

Awesome we will find out at Christmas then! not too far away!

We know the release of movement will be next year is there any word on release of future handstand courses or the rings courses?

[Daniel Burnham]

Awesome we will find out at Christmas then! not too far away!

We know the release of movement will be next year is there any word on release of future handstand courses or the rings courses?

I think that was just a figure of speech... Not a Christmas unveiling.

[Joshua Slocum]

Coach/Cory,

 

Can you wet our appetites a bit? 

 

We know at end of F4, one can expect HBP, RC, Straddle Planche, FL, etc....

 

What comes at end of R3 and R4? and Movement1,2, and 3?

Being very very strong.

[Connor Davies]

Someone mentioned that coaches athletes have a specific warmup that they follow.  By the time we get to say, Hungarian, is there going to be a standard warmup that we should perform before we do the days work?