Who is (how to become) the oriental guy on the main page ?

Just wanted to ask Coach Sommer or anyone who knows who is this guy.

And for Coach Sommer: will the training regimen described in your upcoming books (I can't wait them anymore) help the development of this kind of body ? Only with bodyweight conditioning, no extra props needed ?

Thanks

Stefan

yang wei

Yang Wei Cover Photo

The answer is yes and yes.

Gymnasts look the way that they do due to gymnastics training. Of course Yang Wei is the current World Champion (the photo is actually from the 2003 World Championships) and also possesses a tremendous amount of technical skills; however it is the physical structure he has built with gymnastics conditioning that has allowed him to express his talent. If you review the physiques of gymnasts from bygone years (50s, 60s, 70s) when the technical advancements as far as difficulty of skills was far far less than it is now, you will still see tremendous muscular development. It is the nature of gymnastics conditioning itself that is the true secret, not the skills that are performed with it.

Yours in Fitness,

Coach Sommer