Why do gymnasts have large biceps Answer: Because they use them Great analysis *claps*

@DrFit96

6 жыл бұрын

Joshua Fyfe give this man an oscar

@xerxessss5295

6 жыл бұрын

I'll give u guys corns

@0subscriberswithnovideos339

6 жыл бұрын

Praise the sun

@art_means_artificial

5 жыл бұрын

Because they use drugs too

@POLITICALYCORRECTify

5 жыл бұрын

Dumbest reply.. We are looking for specifics..

Why are baseball players good at throwing balls?

@scoutiano4441

5 жыл бұрын

basically this video lmao uhhh ummm idk i research and it's because they throw a lot of balls

@GOxHAM

5 жыл бұрын

Lol doesn't matter, dude still racked 1mill views. Pretty impressive for doing basic googling and making a video on a subscribers question. There's plenty of people that put way more time, money, and energy into their videos and still only get like 30k views. Whatever this guy is doing, he's doing it right.

@samweller2099

5 жыл бұрын

Because most baseball players are gays, so they play with a lot of balls which increases their ball skills.

@slicesofsib5572

4 жыл бұрын

Because they train with balls!

@Hiightech666

4 жыл бұрын

Because they throw balls 🤣

Gymnastics coach here, firstly gymnasts use almost exclusively body weight conditioning. It’s important to remember that most of the gymnasts in this video started gymnastics very young, sometimes three or four years of age. As a coach I don’t have my guys touch weights until they are at least 13 years old, but they will start doing body weight strength training the first day they start gymnastics. We have specialized workouts specifically for the skills in gymnastics. Gymnasts do not train to get a particular esthetic result, we are looking for the strength to do the necessary skills. For instance I have level 9 gymnasts at my gym who have been training to get a cross for over two years now but they are no where near the required strength yet. About once a week we do “ring strength” where I give out conditioning for the skills you see on the rings this is mostly cross pulls, dips, muscle ups, and press handstands. There are some things you can do with weights to help your rings, but very few gymnasts actually do them, and too much weight training can harm your rings. Most of the strength gymnasts develop for the rings is from doing strength training on the rings. Gymnastics is a completely different sport to something like body building so it’s very hard to compared the two. The most important difference in my opinion is that the gymnasts body is a side effect of the training and is never considered a goal during their career. We also train to use the full body in most of our strength training, so isolating is not really seen when working out. You’ll see gymnastics normally break their workouts down to legs, arms, and core. They will then do body weight workouts to develop these parts of the body. Pommel horse is also mostly core with some triceps. I could go on for a while about this, but I’ll stop before this comment gets any longer. I don’t mean to be rude or disrespectful but this video clearly doesn’t have a good understanding of my sport so it might be better to do more research and then reupload otherwise this is really just spreading misinformation.

In this video: KZread Bodybuilder discovers olympic athletes

@rongotbig6295

4 жыл бұрын

He's also a bodybuilding competition judge

Only rings I do are Onion Rings :(

@davidwilliams9386

6 жыл бұрын

KarmaInTheWater you should be happy onion rings are tha bomb yo!

@ReallyReal_1

6 жыл бұрын

KarmaInTheWater yeah, stop bitchinf

@NicksStrengthandPower

6 жыл бұрын

same.

@commentconnoisseur1001

6 жыл бұрын

you do onion rings? you sicko

@IRISHSALTMINER61

6 жыл бұрын

KarmaInTheWater you forgot arse rings, you’re partial to those as well, big boy....

Those guys are basically Tarzan all of them.

@sonicloud7774

4 жыл бұрын

@Lukas Blois Well they are short for a reason. Just like basketball players who stereotypically tall.

@thepracticalgymnast8001

4 жыл бұрын

Sonicloud 777 not necessarily, a lot of gymnast are short yes, but one of the great things about gymnastics is theirs six events and each one has a specific body type that suits it best. For example pommel horse hugely favors taller people due to the slower swings they need to generate

@hyojoong

4 жыл бұрын

Sonicloud 777 i wouldnt called basketball players being tall a stereotype

Why would this even be a question. Look at literally everything they do as gymnasts. Kinda need those arms.

@POLITICALYCORRECTify

6 жыл бұрын

Because they arnt just developed they are OUT OF PROPORTION meaning something they are doing is really building their Biceps in an ultimately effective way and bodybuilders could benefit from knowing the secret..

@Surgicaldamage

5 жыл бұрын

+POLITICALYCORRECTify assuming they are properly drug tested, yes.

@mijaco999

5 жыл бұрын

POLITICALYCORRECTify in that way is it a secret?

@Surgicaldamage

5 жыл бұрын

+toothgains They do have a special diet, (drug free). they make body builders look amateur because of the style of training they do as well. Body builders usually take the stable load and lift. what these guys do would be torture to body builders i know.

@atanpeep4162

5 жыл бұрын

@@Surgicaldamage gymnasts have an advantage that the oneas who win Olympic train really early They start as children putting in the calisthetics and routine probably dont get the muscle pump but the tone When puberty hits BOOM

Bodybuilders arent gonna incorporate gymnastics regardless of its effectiveness because the could never throw around their overly muscular bodies.

@qwertyTRiG

4 жыл бұрын

Some can. Nile Wilson has had some bodybuilders on his channel. Now, the ones who were actually good had a background in diving, so they had a foundation of functional movement to build on. The pure bodybuilder was very poor at even fairly simple movement.

@supernoodles908

4 жыл бұрын

@@qwertyTRiG he got Eddie hall to do a back flip though

@asthecrowflies1201

4 жыл бұрын

Clarence Kennedy and Jujimufu are two large bodybuilders just off the top of my head that are more mobile than the average fit person. They both do lots of acrobatic tricking. A quick search on KZread will bring up plenty of their videos.

@exmultilegend1948

4 жыл бұрын

@@asthecrowflies1201 they aren't bodybuilders tho

@williamhelm6632

4 жыл бұрын

Touche!!👍

Not just biceps, but triceps and shoulders.

@ricechido1089

6 жыл бұрын

shades2 and fire arms

@POLITICALYCORRECTify

6 жыл бұрын

No Biceps are extremely overdeveloped proportionally

@abmo32

5 жыл бұрын

yeah, I am amazed that theese guys have bigger biceps than triceps... I bet they have massive elbow pain starting in their 30s

@hawkahu523

5 жыл бұрын

@@abmo32 tell us why then Mr

@greenrobot5

5 жыл бұрын

I'm confused though, the video states that these guys must exercise their arms very often, but then the gym tells you to only have an arm day per week or else you'll overtrain and lose muscle...

Thier workouts are almost entirely arms and shoulders its crazy

@shuntarofurukawa4807

6 жыл бұрын

*and core

@ironbooze2937

6 жыл бұрын

Outlaw you guys should see their backs. Most stuff they do needs a lot of back strength, e.g. the Iron Cross is a lot of back.

@BIGFREAKYMAN

6 жыл бұрын

Jo Thomas not just 'some' back. 99% of gymnastics training is heavily back focused.

@christopherduffy1703

6 жыл бұрын

Outlaw No need for legs really.

@molomono9795

6 жыл бұрын

Wrong, it's core, core, core and more core. Then delts followed by back and biceps. The secret to their strength really is that they train the joints and stabilization muscles, especially around their shoulder blades, elbow, wrist and shoulders to an extent that is unparalleled in other sports. If you really want to take anything away from gymnastics (and i highly recommend this by the way) train your core the way gymnasts do and you will get a much nicer abdominal, serratus, oblique, lower back development than any bodybuilding routine. It will make your core strong as fuck.

Being able to hold those "weird poses" (like the Iron cross, Planche or Maltese) is what gives gymnasts big arms and shoulders because those skills are really intense on those muscles. They train to achieve and perform these type of skills and the side effect is that they get this muscular physique. I'm a gymnast myself btw

@moodman1151

4 жыл бұрын

Isn't the biceps also greatly activated during the planche so that it doesn't rip? Because I always tought this was the case, especially with planches were your fingers are pointing backwards

@6omni6draconian6

4 жыл бұрын

It's more than that. The perfect stretch, warm up, rest, nutrition, and workout routine is why gymnast have beautiful Greek god like physique; the true definition of calisthenics!

@6omni6draconian6

4 жыл бұрын

@@moodman1151 the brachialis is activated when your fingers are pointed sideways. Also yes there's tension on the long and short head of the bicep when your fingers are pointed backwards. You should go to @calisthenicmovement channel if you want a better and more deep understanding to whatever fitness related questions you have.

@pepelopez6930

4 жыл бұрын

According to Coach Summers, you guys have those well developed biceps thanks to straight arm work (missing in bodybuilding) like the poses that you mentioned

Difference between gymnast biceps and body builder bicep is first has functional muscle and the other has aesthetics only..

I've been lifting for 37 years. Competed bodybuilding and powerlifting. The one thing I learned. If you want aesthetically pleasing muscle hypertrophy it is all about time under tension. These guys experience extreme time under tension. Powerlifters do not and generally have a completely different development. When I switched my training from 5x5 to 5x12, I built a physique. Peak, bellies and denseness.

@Salomon_G

6 жыл бұрын

I thought the answer was steroids?

@TrustNJesusChrist

6 жыл бұрын

Sooo, I don't get it. Wouldn't you want the outcome of a powerlifter instead? If you have big biceps but are not strong like a powerlifter, than what is the point? I know there are people with big muscles but truly lack strength. But if goal overall is to be strong, wouldn't you go for powerlifting FIRST, than work on the definition?

@swordblack6848

6 жыл бұрын

Joe Blow would you say 14 reps would be greater time under tension or is to high reps to build muscle

@POLITICALYCORRECTify

6 жыл бұрын

Correct time under tension is everything, Thats why I always train with the if you can move it you can use it philosphy, plus i hold the weight as long as humanly possible after ive hit failure, its how I got my calves from 11 to 17 inches. Crazy time under tension.

@SuperCanuck777

5 жыл бұрын

Not at all >

A lot of these gymnastic men, have better builds than a lot of actual body builders.

@sickkunt1573

6 жыл бұрын

because they are blessed with incredible genetics

@martijnverhagen6660

6 жыл бұрын

That's because they are natural

@libertyprime5965

6 жыл бұрын

I don't think you have been to a bodybuilding show then, there on a different level of development then gymnast's.

@patb5266

6 жыл бұрын

Most of them have little leg development as big quad muscles would be a hinderance. Great upper bodies though.

@tadziu2400

6 жыл бұрын

Difference is that bodybuilders are usually tall. Gymnastic people are short and their muscles look big because of their shortness

Answer: They do 5 hours of training, 6 days a week.

You can tell he really researched well, especially since he barely knew what any of the exercises were called, didn’t even know a damn planche

@SunsOfTheNight

4 жыл бұрын

Pic plays games I loved how he kept calling the Iron Cross “a crucifix pose”

@Admiral_Ducky

4 жыл бұрын

Good point!

@pepelopez6930

4 жыл бұрын

According to Coach Summers, gymnasts have those well developed biceps thanks to straight arm work (missing in bodybuilding).

@randystevens6302

4 жыл бұрын

it's funny how he thinks the act of pulling oneself up is all biceps

I don't really watch the olympics either but this is an interesting discussion

@zanethekeymasterr

6 жыл бұрын

Cope Grizz you should watch the next Olympics man, at least try to catch a few of the events. It’s watching the pinnacle of human evolution, the brink of what is currently possible. Super fucking interesting to watch these psychos who have trained 8 hours a day since they were 5 (sometimes younger than that) finally put their expertise to the test. Gets me super jazzed up man

@pickletickle8300

6 жыл бұрын

I watch for the gymnastics because the kinesthetic sense and the amount of strength and control is insane.

@deltronics1111

4 жыл бұрын

How can someone be into strength and bodybuilding and not be a fan of the Olympics, they are the strongest people in the world competing against each other 🤔

Gnarly amounts of discipline. My bro owns a gymnastics center. It's crazy. Lil kids walking around on their hands, six packs and lil dudes doing flips off of spring boards. It's a trip.

@DannewK

6 жыл бұрын

RoughToBeBuffTV and they all will stay small

@user-ci3xc5bz5h

6 жыл бұрын

DannewK Nope. As you can clearly see from the pictures in this video, they'll be bigger, stronger, more powerful and more flexible than you and your phil heath bench press routine.

@heartofjustice6041

6 жыл бұрын

thats because they are using performance enhancing substances nigga

@jaydavids6485

6 жыл бұрын

RoughToBeBuffTV - it's much better for your body than just fuckin weights. it's a lifestyle... not done to look good.

@user-ci3xc5bz5h

6 жыл бұрын

yous gon git dem cheeks took my nigga No they aren't moron. They get tested regularly. Some have been banned in the past, which is proof that they take PED regulations seriously.

Iron cross and maltese hit the biceps really hard, started training those skills a year ago and my biceps mutated

2:33 looking like Randy orton

0:26 404 triceps not found

@kevinvera8213

6 жыл бұрын

amokthree lol

@trk4973

6 жыл бұрын

His tricep is legit flatter than the earth

@skyzenskyluke5880

6 жыл бұрын

Ooohw !

@Bakwazan

6 жыл бұрын

Biceps eaten all the triceps

@FrancescaFrancesca

6 жыл бұрын

Lmfao

Why does Nick have such a big biceps? Is he secretly a gymnast?

@hopeitstix5052

6 жыл бұрын

fother mucker nick is the most unathletic athlete in history

@jimmorgan8688

6 жыл бұрын

fother mucker Jerking of, lots.

@NicksStrengthandPower

6 жыл бұрын

yes.

@funnybomb2571

6 жыл бұрын

Nick's Strength and Power the Real Question Here is Who Are You Replying Yes To???

@JohnBradydoesstuff

6 жыл бұрын

fother mucker first rule of secret gymnast club....

The double front biceps pose hanging from rings is actually easier than making that crucifix, the horizontal belly down plank is one of the hardest positions to do, it all has to do with leverage, the further your hands are away from your body the harder a static position gets. For this sole reasson you will see that gymnasts especialy on rings are very short, with short arms, on average they are 5'3" or 1,6m. Yuri van Gelder, a top gymnast on rings from the Netherlands, is only 5"3"where the average dutch male is 6'1". This short lenght enhances the muscular look they have, especialy the arms. For a 6' male most of the routines these top athletes do would be impossible, the force needed having the same proportions as the 5'3" athlete between lenght, arm lenght and muscle size goes up proportionaly for arm lenght but by the third power for the proportional larger body (and thus muscle size), so it is 1.125x for the longer arms but also 1.43x for the bigger body. this means the 6' athlete, being 1.125 times as tall must be 1.6 times as strong to perform the same routines, but this means there is a mismatch between muscle mass which is 1.43x more and needed strenght which is 1.6x more (1.125x1.43), so there is a physical disadvantage. Yuri van Gelder weighs 63kg /139lbs, while that 6' male having similar body proportions had to weigh 101kg/222lbs, the extra muscle mass needed to be 1.6 times as strong would raise his weight even more, and so there is a point where a human is too tall to overcome this physical disadvantage

@immnico

5 жыл бұрын

The horizontal thing you were talking about is called the planche . Usually they do a swallow or Maltese variation, even throw a straddle in there

@alexwexlerwexler9219

5 жыл бұрын

Actually the plank is one of the first thing Learned cross is much harder

@Hahahaha-uj9pu

4 жыл бұрын

Hardest is Victorian cross by the way

@ianstratton1629

4 жыл бұрын

@@alexwexlerwexler9219 Cross is valued easier in gymnastics. Cross is valued a "B", Maltese is a "C".

They have the best physic of any athlete in my opinion.

Their arms would look insane if they brought the triceps up to match the biceps.

@GokuBlack-sn5dr

6 жыл бұрын

need to start hitting those ring dips?

High reps and muscles under tension for long periods of time. That is a recipe for size and shred. Look at a woman figure skaters legs. My Dad has never worked out but he has changed tractor tires for 40 years. That steel belt reinforced rubber is stiff. If you try and make a pry faster than the rubber will flex your bar just jumps out. It can take 30 seconds of constant tension with slow movement to move the tire iron 24 inches with your hand to move the bead of the tire 2 inches. Between that and swinging a 12 pound hammer on a 2 foot long handle Dad is big and strong and in good shape. He is still a beast and he is 65 years old. I guess in the end there is no way to look like you work hard without working hard. If you want to be big and strong earn it. When you have a tire that weighs 500-800 lbs. and you bend over and stand it up then roll it over to the machine and push it up the side of the rim that will tie in with total body strength. I have seen him squeeze pliers so hard that the handles broke. Not many guys his age are still being called big guy by a lot of people. He has earned his size and strength. He loves to eat meat, potatoes, green veggies and drink milk.

@Bane1Mirin

6 жыл бұрын

True the exercises they do cause their biceps especially to be under a tremendous amount of strain and tension

@lefty3985

6 жыл бұрын

tdej80 sounds like a fucking tank your old man!

@CoolKoon

6 жыл бұрын

tdej80 It's funny that you mention tractor tires, because guess what: many European strongman competitions do in fact incorporate flipping a tractor tire over (several times over a specific distance I believe) as one of their disciplines.

@kingtau

6 жыл бұрын

tdej80 real man 💪

@fraudulentearth5117

6 жыл бұрын

Men from your dad's generation had higher levels of testosterone than those of today. The shite they put in tap water and all the preservatives and additives in food today leaches your test. away. They were just a stronger breed in general. Sounds like he's still youthful for his age - good on him!

5:15 this one is a machine...look at his left eye :)

Core strength as well in all of these moves. Mega core strength

I’ve been using rings for years they are great for bicep contraction

@denisandronic134

6 жыл бұрын

*penis contraption

@vegalee8955

6 жыл бұрын

cashcowslave same here for 17yrs💪💯

@ricechido1089

6 жыл бұрын

Also for big chest and amazing core.

When they hang from the rings like that, I feel my shoulders popping out.

Gymnasts are usually pretty small, so it looks even bigger

@hugostigglitz9639

4 жыл бұрын

Under 5.5 feets

@ddriuez5131

4 жыл бұрын

@@hugostigglitz9639 Why so short??

@wayne_404

4 жыл бұрын

Solace Al Leverage, the shorter the better. Looking at a movement like Planche, it is a lot harder to achieve for guy 6ft or over Vs. a 5ft 5 guy

@deviljho4260

4 жыл бұрын

Solace Al being short is good for gymnasts

@raksh9

4 жыл бұрын

That's why I like women with small hands, their hands make everything look bigger.

bicep curls are completely overrated. Pullups and rings work is what I do now for biceps

@scatpack1381

5 жыл бұрын

Have you seen a difference in your biceps.

@Bane1Mirin

5 жыл бұрын

Facts

@artas9371

5 жыл бұрын

From my experience I workout back and biceps on a same day and my biceps reacted great when I started doing more pullups and started doing chinups. I know every body reacts different but the golden spot for me are weighted chinups for 3-5 reps.

@manne8575

5 жыл бұрын

I personally use a mixture of both when I hit biceps, and I think using different methods is generally the best way to build muscle and gain strength.

@Thematic2177

5 жыл бұрын

No reply, LOL

I did gymnastics and we never really used weights other than ankle weights for abs sometimes and dumbbells for preacher curls if we needed to strengthen our elbow ligaments. We developed muscle because we used them so often. We practiced about 12-16 hours a week on skills. For olympians it’s 30-36 hours. I also believe that because there are a lot of power movements to move us up, around, through the air, etc., and under control with good form, that we have very well developed type II fibers along with developed stabilizer muscles that may not be trained as well as only weight training might. The bicep also helps contribute to shoulder flexion, and swinging on both bar events, rings, and pommels require changes in shoulder angle while under full body tension, so that probably helps develop the arms too, despite the arms being straight. Straightened arms and body also increase the radius which adds more torque, meaning more force output is needed to do the same movements, yielding greater results.

@Executnr

6 жыл бұрын

not to mention starting at a very young age

Keep in mind many of these guys are about 5'4. Gymnastics is a sport that selects short muscular or short mesoporphic types. How guys 6'0 or over in gymnastics? But one thing for sure, chins/pulls build bigger arms.

@derrickbonsell

6 жыл бұрын

Keith Barbaro I'm reminded of Jeff Nippard on that one.

@l4ur790

6 жыл бұрын

They are short because they train from a young age a lot of hours a day, and gymnastics puts a lot of stress on the joints, that can stunt or decrease growth in childs

@ignaciotoledogalan1066

6 жыл бұрын

Keith Barbaro I'm 6,4` and can do a full planche in the still rings... That's all, I just wanted to brag about it

I simply do pull-ups with different hand variations-and already I see a difference. Biceps sore af for days if you do enough. I did like 8-12 sets of 6-8 reps. Squeezing and holding and focusing only on my biceps to do the work instead of my back and the lats still gets work. It works!! 👍🏾👍🏾

An easy answer: Gymnasts (especially on still-rings) use biceps really really much to keep their arms safe and powerful in locked out position. - I'm just a Calisthenics athlete, but my training routine is almost static-skills (on rings, bars) and i know that. - You guys just go on the rings and do Dips exercise with fully locked out on top. You will understand that.

The thing you did not mention was straight arm leverage. That is the thing that most other fitness people are not incorporating and could benefit from. Yes they also do rope climbs and weights. But you should search the term straight arm leverage to get a better understanding of whats going on.

@garethjones2125

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, this is the main factor that differentiates gymnastic training to body building. Ring pull ups play their part, but it is the straight arm strength required in their skills that contributes most to the significant bicep development.

T-POSE

@jeffkersting8278

6 жыл бұрын

Luis Prado "Iron Cross"

@samuelpudwill6794

5 жыл бұрын

*cough cough r/wooosh

There was this girl in my 6th grade class who was INSANELY STRONG compared to everyone else, even the boys. We later found out that she took gymnastics her whole life

The elite gymnasts I know.... including an Olympic bronze medalist, do not work out with weights at all... I’m wondering where you got that information from?

@ricechido1089

6 жыл бұрын

That's true, us gymnast typically don't use wieghts because it's not that necessary.

@rahuldutt1358

5 жыл бұрын

Hi I second that... Know a couple of amature level gymnasts and they told that their coaches forbid them from doing any kind of gym training, and restricted their non-gymnast workout to freehand calesthenics. Weight lifting always carries a risk of injuries which for a young gymnast can be career ending catastrophe.

@8G00SE8

5 жыл бұрын

@Costel Coaie If you try some of their routines you'll see why!

@bhuuthesecond

4 жыл бұрын

His ass. He got the information from his ass.

Male gymnasts also have well defined latissimus dorsi muscles. They do a lot of static exercises to strengthen the muscle groups and move into dynamic exercises which are usually a part of the routine that is performed. I think it's an awesome workout.

Do a video on UK Rugby players build. I like that look.

@jh1986100

6 жыл бұрын

COMBO I remember a former England coach criticizing the players for being to into weight training and how it was slowing them down

@Dobbyyy94

6 жыл бұрын

We essentially train our legs and shoulders the most, throw in some arms now n again, but majority of our rugby training in the gym is legs and shoulders

@JamesCarmichael

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah they do a shit ton of different exercises.

@silvershamrock5489

6 жыл бұрын

Short and fat?

@dazmanshears

6 жыл бұрын

I bet you do. If gets you off huh? I’m English baby!

and football players have extreme legs and disproportionate to their body for "Angel Di Maria", He is thin as stick but he got legs like wow.

@crackuhsnackuh

5 жыл бұрын

Clearly, they do sprints and squats like CRAZZYY

@pentassugliamario6914

5 жыл бұрын

"Soccer"

@systemofadown1986

5 жыл бұрын

@@pentassugliamario6914 it's called football because you play with your foot and a ball

@essayedgar

5 жыл бұрын

His legs are pretty tiny, just a little bit bigger than the rest of his body. If we're talking football CR7 is the best example. He is lean but his legs are a lot buffer than the rest of his body

@user-nk2nb6ft9z

4 жыл бұрын

@@pentassugliamario6914 no

When I was in high school i had the pleasure to meet "The Lord of the Rings", Jury Chechi, italian gymnast and gold medalist at Atlanta '96. Very short man but Jeez was he jacked!

*Likes before watching*

@Kyle111

6 жыл бұрын

Don't we all?

@NicksStrengthandPower

6 жыл бұрын

my guy!

*They Skip Legs Day And Do The Biceps Instead :P*

@Aderfostousuperman

6 жыл бұрын

no they don't... they need them for the landings

@dariusmccoy6958

6 жыл бұрын

Lol

@yassirelazraky3847

6 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

@Srdan1el

6 жыл бұрын

Actually they tend to have strong legs too...

@canos9649

6 жыл бұрын

They put ladders under the ceilings in their homes so they don't need their legs at all.

Gymnastics was really good to me, and I just quit a few months ago and started wrestling. Gymnastics got me a pretty lean physique and really helped me out in wrestling

From my one season as a gymnast, working only Still Rings, I can honestly say that as a very slender guy, this event and the training behind it, definately built me up. Some training involved were hand stand push ups on parallel bars (w/ a spotter) and up against a wall, along with standard push ups or bench pressing, and other weight lifting that would focus on similar movements. Also, gave you great abs as well. I was very toned, lean and fit at the end of the season,and the babes liked it as well. Love Still Rings, P-Bars, and Floor Ex the best when watching the Olympics.

No, they don’t do any bodybuilding routines. Bodybuilding and strength classical training they decrease their skill. Also, they have a lot of core strength. Instead they train up to 6h/day, 5-6 days/weeks. Ok, I talk only from perspective of Romania gymnastics team, in US could be different.

Nick bro you're killing it with the uploads. This channel is what got me interested in bodybuilding and I'm so thankful for you

On gymnastics arms do all together: big volume, long time under tension, high intensity, high frequency, explosive movements, functional and non functional movement, that's why they are so developed

Yeah man I bet these guys could do 50-100 pull ups in a row. Crazy development.

@atanpeep4162

5 жыл бұрын

If comparison comes to mind its chuck Norris type proportions

nick I wanted to say as a still ring athlete myself one of the things we do that other athletes don't is something called straight arm strength. in all of the static holds we are required to have completely straight arms and people think it unloads the weight from the bicep but its actually the opposite look up exercises for a movement called the planche and try them yourself you might fall in love and you will definitely feel your biceps in a way you haven't felt before! love your content keep it up!

Love the diversity of your topics man! You’re killing it this week

The more interesting question is, why do the grow given they are trained 7 days a week? Over and over again! Are they not overtraining?

@NCOX3649

4 жыл бұрын

Nucleus Overload. Research it. Why do brick layers have defined shoulders, arms and backs. They lift all day 5 to 6 days a week.

@johnwirk

4 жыл бұрын

@@NCOX3649 ive seen alot of masons who arent large but are ripped to shit and some are well into their 50s.

@thepracticalgymnast8001

4 жыл бұрын

geoopa Overtraining isn’t as scary as you seem to think it is. Technically yes if you absolutely annihilate a muscle every single day doing the same thing you may “overtrain” but gymnast don’t just do the same thing everyday even if it’s the same event all 6 of them have infinite complexities.

@ianstratton1629

4 жыл бұрын

nothing wrong with "over training" as long as you are recovering properly

@daledoback8584

4 жыл бұрын

Like when your chest is sore for 5 days after you hit 7 exercises is different then what they are doing

Hey Nick, Love the video. Just wanted to clarify something. I know that some of the high level gymnast do use some weights, but I would venture ti say that the majority of their development comes primarily from bodyweight training. My daughter was a state champion at 12 years old, and everywhere we went people would comment on her muscular developemnt, and her best friend, had even more of a build than her. Talking to the coaches, I asked about some of the older girls and the boys. It was explained to me that most coaches discouraged weight training because of a fear putting on muscular weight that would hinder movement ( the lighter the better). The other thing is even at 11, my daughter was training 4 hours a day 5 to six days a week, so there was no time for weight training, and the upper level gymnast were already there training when we arrived. It's pretty embarrassing to hear, 40 year old dad's standing around talking about how they'd love to built like there 11 and 12 year old daughters

Thicc bois

Right on! Their pound for pound strength is out of this world too!

@szymusiek1980

6 жыл бұрын

So tell me, how many chin-ups can they do with one arm?

@sabo4037

6 жыл бұрын

more than any Bodybuilder on this Website

@nvondoom545

6 жыл бұрын

szymikon1980 more that u ever will

@georgecantstandsya821

5 жыл бұрын

I could kick their asses.

@rayhan_2k841

5 жыл бұрын

They are easily the all round strongest athletes lol no contest

I have been doing street workout (calisthenics) sice I was a kid. I'm still doing it, but I train at the gym as well. From my experience I have to say that "secret" of the big biceps calls hammer curl. Doesn't matter if you are using the rings or the bar. Any pull up that works like a hammer curl will help you develop your biceps. This is why gymnastic guys have big biceps. The big part of movements that they perform on the bar or ring its a hammer curl equivalent movement.

A lot of it has to do with their isometric exercises involving extreme straight arm tension. I do some ring workouts, and doing type writer pull ups, for example, is extremely stressful on my biceps and elbow joints. You can then get an idea as to how they build such mass in their arms after doing all that for hours every day.

That Jonathan Horton guy has thos eluimarco peaks on a dailyyyyyy

@NicksStrengthandPower

6 жыл бұрын

you mean luimarco? lol

Great topic! However please do note that a lot of these moves (iron cross for example) are extremely demanding for your tendons (especially bicep). Take it slow and follow the progression to let your tendons get used to these positions.

Doing hefesto/back lever muscles up on rings, one arm pull ups, and pull ups/weighted pull ups really works the bicep.

Do pull-ups, LOTS of them...and in a variety of grips...you’ll get those guns! 💪🇺🇸💪

You could have looked at different holds such as the Maltese, planche, iron cross, Victorian cross, and handstands to better understand the muscle groups utilized.

Could also be nucleus overload since they are probably practicing there ring routine almost everyday

@Mayordomo32

6 жыл бұрын

Dashing Dreww what is that?

Love your videos Nick. First series that I can watch over and over again and I believe it is in large measure because you are authentic, direct but fair and balanced whenever you review a subject. Awesome Job! Now, this gymnast thing...if you look at male Olympic Gymnasts, you will see that these world class "functionally" trained bodies/athletes share many proportions and aesthetics with classic body builders (not necessarily today's mass monsters). These guys are truly in amazing shape!! To be fair, gymnasts are usually quite short, so not sure how that impacts muscular development (I suspect it helps). Any way, kudos again on your videos Nick...keep it up sir! Terry

5:11 when you flex so hard you bust blood vessels in your eyes

NICK- I was in the Army from the time I was 18 and I did so many pullups my arms got to 18 3/4 inches WITHOUT lifting weights... so it's possible!

@panama1942

6 жыл бұрын

TheSpritz0 The real question is... what body fat percentage were you?

@forceofchaos1

6 жыл бұрын

300%

@nischal711

6 жыл бұрын

Jack army need to be at 15% normally

@taoist32

6 жыл бұрын

Adam Pittman Not in the army. They would boot you out if you ever got a little bit, more than 15%.

@commentconnoisseur1001

6 жыл бұрын

limb dominant boiyo spotted

Want to give serious answers to the questions... ask a gymnast before making this video.

@Jacob-sb3su

6 жыл бұрын

Kevin Glennsr i mean, its a pretty good point.

@henrycruz45cal

5 жыл бұрын

No kidding! Get educated first. Balance beam!!!

@Setxboy

5 жыл бұрын

Gymnast aren't body builders.

@8G00SE8

5 жыл бұрын

Alot of gymnasts won't be doing a bodybuilding routine like was mentioned in this video, you can look this subject up pretty quickly on google. Their absolute priority is only to use the muscles and equipment they will be using in competition, the only time I've seen weight lifting mentioned is when the athlete is not strong enough to perform certain routines.

@atanpeep4162

5 жыл бұрын

@@8G00SE8 thing is even if gymnast would start lifting he she would be so good at it Imagine a squat for instance. Easily using core to brace and balance/suport a load without flexing (the bad flex) It may not be a large weight but imagine the form being perfect

Nice video. Consider adding ring dips in addition to ring pullups. For the iron cross, which you called a crucifix, is chest strength. Not bench press chest strength, but the ability to not rip apart while holding the iron cross. Another important aspect for nearly all men's gymnastics is extreme core strength.

The crazy way these use the upper body so much, whole lot of work

Check out Nile Wilson's KZread channel to see how a current world class men's gymnast trains

Recently used rings for the first time. Pure full body strength and stamina to the test. I wish I had gotten into them sooner as even just the grip and wrist strengthening benefits from a few short routines altered my overall experience.

VOLUME! Moderate weight (for them) and practice everyday. Basically nucleus overload!

Thank you for this video... it improved my mood this morning

Straight arm strength.

@_Nosferatu_

6 жыл бұрын

telemudna Exactly

@johnmcvickar5305

6 жыл бұрын

Exactly, planche's and iron crosses put immense stress on your biceps

As a general statement, pullups will always beat curls for developing big biceps. Gymnastics, specifically, opens the shoulder joint up quite nicely too, stretching the bicep at the upper insertion. The most basic premise is this- Pullups, and stretching your shoulders/pecs/biceps from a hanging position. Do both.

Great video again Nick 💪

It's the static stress with no pauses that developes those biceps. Interestingly those biceps might be even more bigger since biceps can't reach full developement if the triceps are underdeveloped.

also pommel horse take alot of wrist strength too. but thk u for this video u reminded me that my dad used to do this before i was born and he was good at it and showed me how to do some b4 when i was young AF in 1984...ah memories..thk u nick.

@joshmoore9068

5 жыл бұрын

You have no idea from a young age we have to do this shit for our wrists to they don't die

Nick’s strength and gymnastics

Really interesting topic. I’ve always wondered this myself.

Awesome info Nick!

LOL. i can't remember the last time i saw a less informative video. love how this guy seems like he just noticed men's gymnastics for the first time in his life, LOL lol.

Also the core. Those dudes have a bloody iron core.

@SM-nc1nb

6 жыл бұрын

darkholyPL you know these guys have very impressive cores when their abs are actually visible through their uniforms like cartoon super heroes.

Straight arm strength, I know it sounds weird, cause when the arms are fully extended you would expect the triceps to be working instead of the biceps, but its actually simple physics. Take a look at the Iron Cross: what does gravity wanna do to your already fully extended arms? It wants to hyper extend them and basically break the elbow joint, and since we wouldnt want that to happen, the Biceps are forced to fully activate even though they are on their weakest position. This provides such a huge stimulus for growth to the biceps that they end up getting huge. Combine this with the fact that they do a lot of volume with all the routines practice and the result makes sense.

@privat6927

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely right, but they train not for volume instead max force output

I was on crutches for 6 months after a severe lower body injury playing hockey. At the end a gymnast friend of mine commented on how big my arms and shoulders had gotten. I knew they were getting stronger to compensate but when I really gauged it they had grown over 1.5 inches. My arms are not "big" but after 6 months basically walking everwhere on my upper body......they BLASTED OUT. From 15" to almost 17. Nuts how the body makes thise jumps.

Blaha is right. Weighted chin ups all day baby!

@nischal711

6 жыл бұрын

Wan Wan I read somewhere that best biceps activation comes from chin ups and it variation

@123455866201Aaron

6 жыл бұрын

Wan Wan I don't get why many people like Blaha's workout and take his advice. We're talking about Jason blaha right? The guy who look like shit and talk bad about athleanX

@SlatedMoon

6 жыл бұрын

Blaha is never right. Inner Ciddy! #infiniteelgintensity

@tanhuulusoy

6 жыл бұрын

Wan Wan Jasino Blahino has fatceps, small fatceps

The rings are where it's always been at for men's gymnastics! Where do you think they got the 'muscle up' from, and whatever the crossfit people do, and the street workout calisthenics guys. From men's gymnasts from the rings and parallel bars.

I plan on becoming a pro gymnast later in my years. The floor routine is a grounding experience.. Rings are incredibly important to me and It's crazy how it develops physique in these guys.

Wow these guys are jacked. They cant be on any peds bc they probably get tested. Really impressive

The thumbnail literally gives us everything we need to know lmao

I was a gymnast in high school and later started bodybuilding. There are a few reasons for the muscular development of Olympic gymnasts and specifically their biceps. Both rings *and* high bar play a role. Even though the arms most often stay extended in high bar, the biceps sometimes play a role and continuously play a stabilizing role. BTW, pommel horse and parallel bars develop the shoulders. When you first start, just holding yourself up in the correct position on the pommel horse for a minute straight puts a massive burn in your shoulders. There are a few other factors in their muscular development. 1. Genetics, 2. Height, and 3. Time. Every Olympic gymnast was born with the genetics to be an Olympic gymnast. If you are not born with those genetics, then you will never be in the Olympics. Good genetics for gymnastics include a short stature and the ability to put on muscle in the necessary areas. As we know from bodybuilding, it's easier for shorter guys to look bigger. Taller guys have to add a lot more muscle to look big. And Olympic gymnasts are short. They typically range from 5'2" to 5'4". Their excellent genetics allow them to more easily add muscle, and that muscle is being added to a short frame which will make them look even bigger. The other factor is time. Most, if not all, Olympic gymnasts started training between the ages of three and five. Over time, as those with inferior genetics dropped out, others stuck with it. By the time they hit puberty and their testosterone rises, they are already very accomplished and doing moves that require a great deal of strength. When the testosterone boost hits, bam, the muscles have explosive growth. By the time they get to the Olympics, they have been training for almost twenty years. Also, they train for several hours every day. I was a low-level amateur and we trained 3 hours per day, 4 days a week. Olympic gymnasts train 4-8 hours a day, 6-7 days per week. That is some serious volume training. Therefore, many hours of almost daily training over twenty years allows Olympic gymnasts, who have superior genetics and a short stature, to display extraordinary bicep development.

I’m probably gonna add a couple of straight arm flagpoles into my routine as well

Also very specifically, when gymnasts assume a planche position, their entire body is supported and kept horizontal by force exerted through straight arms by the shoulders. The biceps assist in this very heavy shoulder flexion, especially when elbow pits face forward.

Because most of the time when their doing the acrobatic things that they do they mostly use their arms and the most hit by the movement is the biceps. I think...

I really appreciate your open mind, and the willingness to incorporate new strategies into your routine based on other sports. Very intelligent!! Interesting topic, thanks for posting.

I heard an ex gymnast talk about how they do those still rings with arms locked. That takes enormous stress on your joints and you have to train that specifically or you'll bust through them from the weight. They also get negative arm curve when stretched cause their arms just get bend over the years.

Great brother!! I’ve always wondered about that myself, they all have big arms and small bodies.