Training with Gymnastic Rings
Training with gymnastic rings is a great way to strengthen your upper body. It is a diverse way to train which builds strength, stability and coordination.
Sometimes people who can comfortably perform exercises like pull-ups and dips using a stable bar struggle with the same exercise when given rings. This is because using rings ads an element of instability which causes you to engage more muscles including your stabilizers and core.
Here is an example of four exercises you can do on rings
Natural Movement
Gymnastics rings allows you to move freely, due to the fact that rings are not fixated to a single point like a bar. Rings helps you to train in natural positions for your body. People often feel shoulder pain when doing dips on straight bars because it is fixed and you can’t move freely. This can also lead to joint problems down the road. There are many factors that contribute to shoulder pain. We are not saying exercising with rings is the fix and you will never feel shoulder pain. But due to the free movement it is better on your joints.
Abdominal Development
Training with rings is a great way to build abdominal strength without directly working your abs. When doing exercises such as dips, push-ups, chin-ups your abs have to work much harder to help stabilize your body.
Strength & Aesthetics
Do you ever look at pro gymnastics and wonder why they look so good?
It takes a tremendous amount of strength and muscle endurance to perform and execute movements consistently on the rings. Even just maintaining the basic starting “support position” for gymnasts with your body straight from head to toe, elbows locked and shoulders externally rotated with your thumbs pointing out can be a difficult feat for anyone new to training with rings. The combination of strength, endurance, contant repetitions and variability from changing between isometric holds is a perfect for formula for sculpting an amazing figure.
Don’t have rings?
You can try some of the exercises shown in the video using a TRX band as-well.
