Ring training is time tested and proven effective by thousands of gymnasts.
For fitness, the Elite Rings are even better, because by adjusting the height, you have access to new exercises not possible on traditional gymnastics rings. For example, you can now experience pushups in a whole new light. The mobility of the rings forces you to stabilize them constantly, thus increasing muscular recruitment through your whole body. The mobility also allows for variations not possible on the floor or pushup stands.
The efficiency of your workouts will improve as you incorporate ring exercises in place of their traditional counterparts. By integrating more of your musculature, fewer reps are required to achieve the same results.
Safety is improved for several reasons. First, your joints are allowed to track naturally, because you can move and rotate the rings to wherever you find greatest comfort. You can even adjust your hand placement dynamically during each rep, ensuring safety and comfort from beginning to end. Next, your safety is improved because you must always be under control while on the rings. Flailing away with improper form is not even possible. Lastly, your stabilizers muscles engage automatically and protect your joints. On dips, you have no choice but to use your lats, otherwise the rings will fly away. On a dip stand, you might never learn to use your lats properly. On rings, safety never compromises performance.
Even if you are a bit of a wimp, there are still lots of “silly” exercises you can do with the rings even if you havn’t yet cracked the muscle-up. Download the free Crossfit London ‘Easy Ring Training Guide’ and either use it yourself or lend it to your wimp partner or body builder friends.
This guide is also an antidote and an attempt to stop you wasting your time and money buying well- marketed, but inferior webbing contraptions that haunt the internet. if you need to suspend your hands or feet, rings are what you need.
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