Gymnastics

The ideal athlete should be equal parts weightlifter, sprinter, and gymnast. Athletes such as wrestlers and martial artist have long known the benefits of utilizing gymnastics as a means to increase fitness for competition. Why is gymnastics so important? Gymnast are some of the best overall athletes. Some of the benefits of gymnastics are increased body control, the ability to move the body through space, and improved spacial awareness. Now that we have established the importance of gymnastics, where do we begin? The place to begin are the basic gymnastic exercises such as push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups, L-sits, dips, and eventually work up to the muscle-up. You should also do plenty of handstand work, pirouettes, and handstand push-ups, and handstand walking. To work on body control and spatial awareness you should do various rolls, cartwheels, and flips. So get out there and get started on some of these basic gymnastics moves. In the future we will talk about the other aspects of the total athlete.

Percieved Limitations

"Most men stop when they begin to tire. Good men go until they think they are going to collapse. But the VERY BEST know the mind tires before the body and push themselves further and further beyond all limits. Only when all these limits are shattered can the unattainable be reached." -Mark Mysnyk

Consistently I have athletes and clients come in for training that try to stop before they are finished. I have clients that try to stop with just a few hundred meters left in a 2k row, or 1 minute left in a time-domain workout. Why is it that we are afraid to accomplish what we are truly capable of? Our minds tell us to stop, because we are becoming uncomfortable, and we keep telling ourselves that we should stop because we are tired and we have already done enough work for the day. However, unless we push ourselves to stay in this state of discomfort, and push through our percieved limitations, can we every see what we are truly capable of accomplishing. It is only when we reach this level of training that we will truly get the results each of us are truly seeking. True fitness comes from this type of training.

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