Questions and confused about workout plan ?

Started by seins345, June 23, 2012 · 2 Replies · 2,032 Views

seins345

Hey there, i knew about this forum for about 3 years or more, been reading you guys quite a bit but decided to post on forums just a days ago. Im doing gymnastics finally at my collegue gym and ive seen alot of improvement so far on fitness and strenght but i believe the training program of coaches at my gym makes lacks of "seriousness" in terms of teaching gymnastics methodology and strenght training, in fact in this year i had 3 different coaches and the trainings are sooo different from each other, also, the "improvements" i made in this year were more because reading and trying things i read or saw on youtube videos.

Im aiming for "serious" training but not having in mind in doing competitive gymnastics, i have all day free to train on this vacations so id like to make serious improvement, see if i can grab the coaches attention so they see im serious with this and train me better.

I read the book and some post but have some major issues with the acronyms etc, it confused me alot so this is what i tought after reading all, love to hear any advice or tips you have guys.

Train 5 days - week (about 1:30 to 2 hours of training)

Mon - Tuck planche - push ups kind of excersices ? - train handstands (still confused about how many reps and sets)

Tue - Front lever - pull ups ? - train for kip ups and bar swings

Wed - L sit - Core workout - running about 30 minutes

Thu - Back lever - chin ups ? train rolls on grass (since i dont have acces to the gym until classes start)

Fri - Leg workout (dont really have a clue what excersices i could do since i have right now a minor ankle sprain and had mid serious knee tenditis about a year ago, i dont really feel my legs are porwerful and im a bit scared of putting alot of stress on them and injury myself worse)

On saturdays i tought it would be ok if i do some tricking or parkour every other week for about 30 minutes until i return to the gym (since its the thing i really want to focus on, but still want to improve on gymnastics)

Also everyday i would strech for about 1 hour in the night specifically (obviously im going to strech on workouts too but less)this would be alright?.

If this can be useful information this was the workout i was doing with the last coach i had.

- Circuit repat 2 or 3 times

25 push ups

25 leg lifts (abs) center

50 leg ligts from both sides

25 squats (sometimes with a parter on shoulders, sometimes from a sit up to a squat assisted by a partner)

75 back excerscies (i dont really know how to name the excersice on english :P )

That workout was ineed challenging for me but i surely could do it, what do you think about it ? mine will be "better" ? or you have better ideas ?.

Also here are some videos of myself if this could be useful to see on what strenght level i am, in gymnastics level i believe i dont really have any "level" :P .

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=3604338307494

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=2876341668033

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=2564582274243

Thank you very much for any comment or advice.

Ian Myers

Read the getting started stickies.

Your FSPs(the levers, planche, l-sit etc.) should be done before every workout. you do each for half your max until youve done a total of 60 seconds for that hold. If you had a 20 second max l-sit you do 6x10 second holds for the l-sit before each workout.

For beginners, a common practice is to train opposing movements each day. SO if you were to train 5 days a week, you could do something like this

Day1

FSP work

3x5 xr pushups

3x5 xr rows

Day2

FSP work

3x5 hespu

3x5 pullup

Day3

FSP work

3x5 xr dips

3x5 xr curls

Day4

FSP work

light multiplane work

or more focused core/handstand work

Day5

FSP work

leg work

The 3x5 is just a baseline, and you could change the exercises around,but that would be better than for example doing only pullups one day and pushups another.

seins345

Hi, thank you for your response, i already read the stickies :) the workout i made was based on killroy post but thats where i got some confusions, but you have cleared alot :mrgreen: quick question FSP work would be training all (planche, lsit, etc) in one day everyday ? for half my max? or just one of them for half max ? also i dont have access to rings for now, just bars on my local park, would be fine if i adapt the xr versions to bars '? and lastly, this would be my workout for 8-12 weeks, then i should change it right¿?

thanks again