Imagine that you no longer feel tightness in your lower back and you can participate in sports, intense training, and all the life pleasures more fully. Very often, the culprit to achy and tight lower back problems could be what you least expect – your hip-flexors are holding you back. If you’ve ever suffered from lower back tightness or persistent discomfort, then you’re one of the millions of adults with the same condition. If you have had to slow it down in sports, training or daily life due to this consistent rough spot, then you’ve come to the right place. The hip-flexors are postural m ..read more

Have you hit a plateau with your strength training? Adjusting your exercise tempo may be all you need to accelerate your muscle growth and make old exercises stimulating again. Try this to keep the gains coming! While the tempo in the GB Online Courses is the gold standard for mastery of an exercise, we’ll take a look at some examples of basic upper body strengthening exercises that you can tempo-tweak for your next workout. Push Ups: Use Exercise Tempo to Do The Basics Better 1-2-3 TEMPO The king for building bent arm pushing strength is the classic go-to bodyweight exercise ..read more

Advanced calisthenics or Gymnastics Strength Training (GST) often utilizes strength training equipment that can provide a tremendous boost in strength and mobility gains. Wikipedia defines bodyweight strength training as training that uses only the body for resistance. While this is partially true, do not make the mistake of thinking that you cannot gain or benefit from equipment used for your Gymnastics Strength Training. Here, we’ll get into a few options for low-budget equipment you can utilize in your at-home training. Parallettes Parallel Bars are usually associated with the sport ..read more

These days, social media is filled with pictures and videos of people performing impressive stunts and mind-blowing body maneuvers of all sorts. Sometimes, it seems almost impossible to scroll through your news feed without running into a post featuring someone on a beach somewhere doing a crazy exercise routine. While these social media shares are intriguing and often entertaining, to most of us, they can be a little disheartening. But when you break down these seemingly impossible exercises into individual, progressions, and steps, they quickly transform from an unattainable dream into a t ..read more

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Imagine how your body would feel with confident posture and open shoulders and hips. If you ever experience tension headaches, neck stiffness, or lower back discomfort, the aforementioned attributes might seem more like a dream than a reality. But if there was a simple drill you could do that would have big benefits noticeable throughout your whole body, would you give it a try? Enter the world of hanging. It may come as a surprise but hanging is extremely beneficial for so many areas of your body, including your hands, wrists, elbows, shoulders, and spine. If we kept hanging since earl ..read more

Let’s face it—injuries suck! There’s nothing worse than being limited to the things you can and can’t do by your own body. It’s frustrating and straight-up annoying! But sometimes it seems like there’s no way to avoid them—as if certain injuries, aches, and pains are bound to happen at one point or another. As humans, and as athletes, we generally accept that knee pain is one of those things that everyone else experiences and, as a result, so will we. Though, wouldn’t it be nice if there was a way significantly decrease your chances of a knee injury? Well, lucky for you, the routine in this ..read more

What exactly has Jonathan done that has yielded such grand results? According to him, GB courses have helped him prepare his body for the rigorous work of lifting. As a result, his joints stopped aching, and he reached his best numbers, even in the midst of a busy competition season. “Lifting is a different kind of stress and you need to cycle through a recovery. After World Championships in Sweden, I felt burnt out. My training was bad from August to January. My body and my joints were achy. Now I lift two times each week and focus on GST three to four times each week to allow my nervous sy ..read more

Imagine that you no longer feel tightness in your lower back and you can participate in sports, intense training, and all the life pleasures more fully. Very often, the culprit to achy and tight lower back problems could be what you least expect – your hip-flexors are holding you back. If you’ve ever suffered from lower back tightness or persistent discomfort, then you’re one of the millions of adults with the same condition. If you have had to slow it down in sports, training or daily life due to this consistent rough spot, then you’ve come to the right place. The hip-flexors are postural m ..read more

Have you hit a plateau with your strength training? Is an exercise in your programming straggling behind? Pump up your strength and muscle growth with this easy to implement change! One simple adjustment to your tempo can make even the easiest exercises stimulating again. Try this to keep the gains coming! By adding tempo changes to the exercises from the GymnasticBodies Courses, you’ll be able to stay on track and crush plateaus, all while increasing your body’s strength and mobility. And while the tempo in the GB Online Courses is the gold standard for mastery of an exercise ..read more