GYMNASTICS | WEEK 22 | 05/23/2021
More fun with pull overs!!
Street Parking Gymnastics is posted once a week - on Sunday. These workouts are for those interested in building more strength, stamina, and skill in the gymnastics movements. Add this in wherever makes sense for your schedule.
Depending on where you are adding this in - it can be great for a warm up - or after the main workout. It also goes well combined with an endurance workout, or often Power, Oly, or Butts and Guts!
WARM UP
GYMNASTICS PULL WARM UP
GYMNASTICS LOWER BODY WARM UP
WORKOUT
5 Min Pull Over Practice
Options:
Kicking Pull Over
Jumping Pull Over
Hanging Pull Over
Choose one or play around with all three for 5 minutes!
For the pull over the goal is to pull the body up and then get the hips close to the bar and keep them close to the bar as you pull yourself over in a backwards roll type movement.
To do these unassisted you will need the upper body strength to do a pull up. BUT you can also do them with a little jump to help with the pull or even stand on something high enough to be able to really kick up and over.
These require a great deal of ab strength. So don't be surprised by that one! Look at your quads the entire time. Allow your hands to rotate around the bar.
Have fun with these and whatever set up you are using make sure it is stable and that you are safe.
Every Min on the Min for 16 Min
Min 1: 8-12 Toes to Bar
Min 2: 10-16 Pistols (Single-Leg Squats)
Score: Total Reps of Both
**Remember scores don't matter. PRACTICE with good form is what this is all about!
Toes to bar starts with you hanging from the bar with hands slightly wider than shoulders, shoulders drawn down away from your ears and arms straight. Think about pushing the bar out in front of you so your shoulders travel back behind the bar as you raise your toes up to touch bar between your hands.
If you don't have a pull up bar, sub with V-Ups.
Or, modify to Knee-Ups, Supine Toe Touches or regular sit-ups if you need to!
A "Pistol" is a single leg squat. Start standing, shift all your weight into one foot and raise the other off the ground in front of you. Reach your butt back while keeping your chest over your ankle. Belly is tight. Lower under control. Be mindful that your knee doesn't cave in at any point. It is TOTALLY normal to have one side that is weaker or less coordinated than the other. If these are new for you, try sitting back to a target. You may also try different strategies - such as holding your foot out front to keep that other leg up if necessary!
If Pistols aren't happening... lateral step offs can be done unweighted or adding a bit of weight as light or as heavy as you are comfortable. You are definitely just TOUCHING with the toe on the ground though and will not PUSH off of that foot at all. For many people, no weight is just fine.
For total time:
Accumulate 3 min in the bottom of a push up but with the chest and thighs JUST off of the ground.
Score is how long it takes you to accumulate that in small increments.
No sagging hips or belly. Elbows tucked in with the bicep and forearm touching the rib cage. No raised hips either!