5 THINGS I WISH I KNEW Before I Started Gymnastics Training

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If you follow these tips, you can save a lot of time, struggle, avoid injuries. And you can progress much faster than anyone who starts working out without these tips, just out of the blue.

1. A 5 minute warm up can save you an injury and skipping months.

Many beginners, also advanced athletes start the workout without a proper warm up. This can cause muscle strains, pain, reduced performance - which is not known by many - and in worse cases, injuries.

The warm up is way more than just having a higher body temperature and breaking a sweat.

Most people believe that warming up is only about that, and for this reason I’ve heard some people just go to the sauna before workout and think they are warmed up.

The point is, that with only a 5 minute gymnastic warm up, you can move around your body really efficiently, and prepare it for the workout along with your nervous system, you can boost your performance and decrese the risk of injuries drastically.

Isn't it worth five minutes to prevent an injury that could potentially set you back from your goal for months?

You can find a 5 minute complete follow along warm up on the channel, where I talk about all the benefits of the general warm up!

2. Joint preparation is the real key for success.

I bet that most people have never heard about joint preparation until this day, and don’t do these special exercises.

Joint preparation comes mostly from gymnasts, and since they have their own little circle, everyday people don’t really know these exercises, however they need it the most.

One of my main goals is to show these joint preparation to the public, because I experienced amazing results using them and they also changed my students lives.

Our body is a complex structure, where every single joint is a potential weak link. If you neglect these links, you’ll have a hard time with bodyweight mastery.

If you prepare these areas with mobilizing and stabilizing them, you likely won’t have any issues during the compound bodyweight exercises.

These isolated, special movements are the keys to solve many shortcomings in bodyweight training, including the basics.

Matter fact, joint preparation is the real first step in bodyweight training, and not the mastery of basic exercises like push ups, pull ups etc.

3. Re-think the basics.

What I mean by that really, is to focus on their quality, rather than doing a lot of reps.

We live in the ego lifting culture, where you need to do more, bigger, heavier or flashy.

But if you take a look at the really successful athletes in training, they do quite the opposite, and focus on the basics with quality.

Instead of doing 100 ugly push ups, do 15 reps with the right technique, range of motion and tempo.

Instead of doing 20-30 pull-ups with kipping or small range, do 10 chest to bar reps.

Which of these do you think will build a better physique and provide the basics for advanced exercises? The answer is obvious.

If you want to max out quality in the basics, check out my videos from earlier about the push ups, inverted rows, v-situps, dips, pull-ups, leg raises and leg exercises, or follow along the challenges that surprised many people - you’ll see in the comment section.

4. Sometimes regression is the best for progression.

This is a conservative lesson.

You can build up bodyweigth exercises with using progressions. Many people rush this process, and they want to skip progressions to get to the desired exercise, but eventually they hit plateau.

The best solution in cases like this, is to step back, and do a regression.

Doing a regression better will ensure your progress in the long run.

This lesson also means “work on the basics” in a sense, but focusing more on the progressions. Sometimes it’s better to step back, give some time to the harder step you were at, and get back to it later.

I experienced this many times in static skills like the front lever or planche.

It’s never a bad idea to bo back to planche leans or dragon flags, and it’s applicable to any other exercises as well…

5. Active or loaded stretches will make you more flexible.

Basic static stretching is useful for beginners, or if you want to just stretch the muscles after a tough workout.

But if you want to increase the range of motion specifically, active or loaded stretches will be more effective.

You can spend a long time in static stretches, but if you use a muscle and stretch it actively wit load, it will give you faster results.

For example, in terms of hip mobility, if you do split squats or cossack squats, you’ll be able to increase mobility while strengthening your legs, so you can hit more at once.