Gymnastic Bodies — Day Three

I’m training four days a week which means today is my first day of rest, and I can not explain how happy that makes me.

Gymnastic Bodies — Day Two

So it continues.

Today, I felt a little more prepared for what was in store. I wasn’t completely unprepared like I was yesterday. It was still tough though. I found the strength exercises a tiny bit easier but the mobility exercises more difficult.

In either case, I was covered in sweat by the end and am still marvelling at how I can find such simple movements so difficult.

Gymnastic Bodies — Day One

Wow. I just had my butt kicked from my first session of Foundation One.

As I mentioned before, I’ve been doing barbell training for the past year so I’ve felt like I’ve known what “pushing myself” feels like but pushing myself on Foundation One has shown me I had no idea what the hell I was talking about.

So, Here’s The Current Situation

The last thing I want to suggest is that I know what the hell I’m doing. Like I said before, I have been doing barbell training for the past year, but:

• I was also backpacking around the world for seven months last year so my consistency and focus dropped off at times. I didn’t do any lifting in July.
• A fear of failure kept me from doing exercises like the overhead press and deadlift. I did them at times but not always when I was meant to.
• At the end of last year, I overtrained. I became impatient, tried to push myself too far, and soon found myself fatigued and weak.

So clearly, I’m an amateur even in things I’ve been interested in for a long time. (I first started reading about barbell training years ago.)

To illustrate that I’m an amateur — and to show how imperfect my body is at the moment – I’ve decided to share progress photos every now and then. This batch of photos is my current situation. It’s not a pretty sight.

Gymnastic Bodies — Day Zero

This day is special for two reasons. Firstly, it’s the day I started this blog. And, more importantly, it’s the day I purchased Foundation One from GymnasticBodies.com.

Foundation One is the first module of a training program designed to teach the basic strength and skills of gymnastics. It’s not a substitute for training in-person with actual coaches but, by following this course, I hope to:

• Become stronger.
• Learn interesting skills.
• Control my body.

I’m inspired by people like Ido Portal and forms of movement like Parkour, but I’m as far as you can possibly be from either of these. Ido might as well be an alien and I can’t do a single Parkour move. I do have the motivation to change that though.