8 TRAINING SETUP (with different levels of support - beginner to pro) to approach and train every CALISTHENICS and GYMNASTICS strength exercise.
SETUP 1 - 50/50 TRAINING: This setup reduces your bodyweight of 50%, so you can build (in a safe and progressive way) strength, endurance, coordination and balance needed to master the hardest exercises on rings.
This should be your first setup choice when working on new skills, in order to understand the technique, and start to train your muscles without excessive loads.
Your weight is reduced of 50%, as the rings handles and the belt are directly connected by straps going through 2 pulleys.
SETUP 2 - COUNTERWEIGHTS TRAINING: By using the pulleys with counterweights, you can choose the support needed to practice a skill on the ground, parallettes, or pullup bars (especially useful for one arm pullup training).
Unlike the use of rubber bands (that provide variable assistance along the range of motion), this system provides a constant support, with the possibility to control the intensity of it.
By changing the counter-weights, you can measure your progress as you can quantify the assistance needed, and observe even the smallest strength improvements.
SETUP 3 - STILL RINGS WITH COUNTERWEIGHTS TRAINING: get only the support needed to perform a skill. Progressively change the counter-weights and get closer to your goal.
This setup grants you extreme adaptability, tailoring the bodyweight exercise to your real level of strength. Just get the support you need!
By changing the counter-weights, you can measure your progress as you can quantify the assistance needed, and observe even the smallest strength improvements.
SETUP 4 - CABLE MACHINE: Recruit all major muscle groups while moving in multiple planes and practice rotational movements, isolation exercises and rehabilitation
- training for athletes of all ages and fitness conditions;
- train almost every human movement pattern. Stabilize and integrate core and lower body when performing upper body push and pull motion.
SETUP 5 - STILL RINGS: Build an incredible coordination and muscular control using your body weight: this kind of training stimulate more muscle fibers than any other workout, as every exercise that involves the active muscles, require all the opposing muscles to control and stabilize the handles.
- build the adequate strength and confidence to progress from basic pull-ups and dips, to exercises like muscle-ups, planches, levers, iron-cross...build rock-solid joints and tendons with basic exercises and high rep sets;
- when hanging (doing dips, pull-ups...), you train without compressing the spinal column, recovering and resting the nervous system.
Your training kit for a lifetime of challenges.
SETUP 6 - CLIMBING MACHINE: the double pulley system add an incredible smoothness to every pull and push movement. This instability need to be compensated by an even more muscle engagement (the simple act of doing push-ups, with the handles moving in, out, back, forth, up and down, requires great core strength and muscle stabilization).
With some exercises like pull-ups and dips you might be familiar, but you are used to train on a stable object like bars or parallels. You worry only about pulling or pushing your body. With the CLIMBING MACHINE you have to stabilize the handles that are free to move everywhere (in, out, back, forth, up and down), while pulling or pushing your body. This kind of action requires much more effort, control and tension.
The freedom of the handles, it’s transmitted to your joints improving drastically mobility and strength through a full range of motion.
The unstable and challenging contraction you get, when you are in full body suspension, are the ultimate performance goal you can achieve in your training. Moving your body through space will trigger upper body and core strength.
SETUP 7 - WEIGHTED TRAINING: to put your performance to the next level, you can attach weights to the G-Force HARNESS, for full suspended exercises. The added load makes bodyweight exercises more effective, without altering your form.
Training with extra weight is very important to avoid a plateau in your routine (when you can already do many pullups and dips reps, for many sets, to build more muscle you will need to practice with extra weights).
When you get so strong, you can keep on challenging your muscles, wearing the Weighted HARNESS while training with the CLIMBING MACHINE setup.
SETUP 8 - ONE ARM PULLUP TRAINING: As simple as effective to train and learn One Arm Pull-Ups.
Attach some weights to the strap of the Rings, and place it over an horizontal bar where it can slide. While one arm hold the bar and pull to make a pull-up or chin-up, the other hand hold the Ring handle and help the lifting motion just with the weight anchored at the end of the strap.
That is the maximum aid you get from the counterweight, so you are aware of support received and over time reduce the counterweight, until you can do a proper one arm pull-up. This training is suggested only for people that is very close to do One Arm Pull-Up. Not for beginners.