Gymnastics

[ApexJimi]

Anyone else been watching the olympic gymnastics?

Deeply impressive stuff

[BenM77]

I always watch the gymnastics, the strength and skill is very impressive.

Also watched the 62kg men's clean and jerk, a guy put 176kg overhead !

[Tiggsy]

BenM77 said:

I always watch the gymnastics, the strength and skill is very impressive.

Also watched the 62kg men's clean and jerk, a guy put 176kg overhead !

I gave up watching when women I could lift with one arm started snatching weight I couldnt deadlift!

[BenM77]

Tiggsy said:

BenM77 said:

I always watch the gymnastics, the strength and skill is very impressive.

Also watched the 62kg men's clean and jerk, a guy put 176kg overhead !

I gave up watching when women I could lift with one arm started snatching weight I couldnt deadlift!

It is good to watch but very humbling.

Are the Oly bars a bit springy or are they the same as in any gym ?

[Hoofy]

ApexJimi said:

Anyone else been watching the olympic gymnastics?

Deeply impressive stuff

Watched the men's yesterday. Love seeing the work on the rings, parallel bars and horse. It's good motivation to train hard.

[944fan]

ApexJimi said:

Anyone else been watching the olympic gymnastics?

Deeply impressive stuff

I have seen a few do that thing when the rise to a handstand with a massive wide hand stance. Looks almost magic.

[LordGrover]

BenM77 said:

I always watch the gymnastics, the strength and skill is very impressive.

Also watched the 62kg men's clean and jerk, a guy put 176kg overhead !

Wait until the big chaps (and girls) get under way...

[BenM77]

LordGrover said:

BenM77 said:

I always watch the gymnastics, the strength and skill is very impressive.

Also watched the 62kg men's clean and jerk, a guy put 176kg overhead !

Wait until the big chaps (and girls) get under way...

I know !

62kg women are on now and snatching more than my bench with ease !

[ApexJimi]

Hoofy said:

ApexJimi said:

Anyone else been watching the olympic gymnastics?

Deeply impressive stuff

Watched the men's yesterday. Love seeing the work on the rings, parallel bars and horse. It's good motivation to train hard.

I enjoy it all, but it's the rings that amaze me - tremendous functional strength and skill there.

[MrMagoo]

Watched the men's and women's finals. Bloody amazing. The strength needed is unbelievable, espichially on the rings. Can't imagine what their training schedule is like.

[Animal]

I was ecstatic last week when I hit a new PB of 70kg in the C&J. Not feeling so smug now that Zoe Smith (who is, for the record, small and a girl) got 121kg yesterday.

The gymnastics has just been stunning, I can't think of another word for it - not least Team GB's performance!

[Halb]

Watched some of the gymnastics, and I was enraptured.
Impressive...most impressive...if only I could turn them to the dark side, we could rule the galaxy!

[fatpasty]

MrMagoo said:

Watched the men's and women's finals. Bloody amazing. The strength needed is unbelievable, espichially on the rings. Can't imagine what their training schedule is like.

Would be interesting to know thier schedule.

[Hoofy]

Yes, the rings are the one thing I love watching. "Yeah, can do that... one day I'll do that... fk that, no chance... nor that... or that... is that possible?"

In honour of the great men of London 2012, I hung upside down from the Smiths Machine for a few seconds.

fatpasty said:

MrMagoo said:

Watched the men's and women's finals. Bloody amazing. The strength needed is unbelievable, espichially on the rings. Can't imagine what their training schedule is like.

Would be interesting to know thier schedule.

Not much. They just hang around most of the time. :rimshot:

[LordGrover]

Gymnastics & weightlifting are the Olympics to me.
The amount of strength, flexibility, skill, courage, etc required is astonishing and truely remarkable.

Any damn fool can pop on a pair of daps and run, don a pair of budgie smugglers and jump in a pool or hop on a push bike.

[Gnits]

I go to Adult gym - grown -ups who want to have a go, it is so worth going even for one session. Gives you a great sense of perspective...
... PERSPECTIVE

I can do a back planche but then found out that an iron cross is then second easiest set of moves...








...bugger.

Gonna take up Origami in the hope it becomes an Olympic sport.

[Hoofy]

Been trying to find a gym club for adults for ages. None in my area.

[uk_vette]

ApexJimi said:

Hoofy said:

ApexJimi said:

Anyone else been watching the olympic gymnastics?

Deeply impressive stuff

Watched the men's yesterday. Love seeing the work on the rings, parallel bars and horse. It's good motivation to train hard.

I enjoy it all, but it's the rings that amaze me - tremendous functional strength and skill there.

.
The upper body, shoulder strength for the rings must me unimaginable.

Credit to them.

vette

[mattikake]

Anyone who says bodyweight and biomechanics are no good for muscular strength, need to take a good look at the gymnasts. They are all strength and power, not these feeble bodybuilders who have the look of a man but have little actual manlyness to back it up.

Anyone notice how comparatively small their legs are though?

[LordGrover]

Short maybe, small no.