Video: Bodyweight Exercises for Male Gymnasts

Bodyweight Exercises for Male Gymnasts

Bodyweight exercises for male gymnast are great for improving circulation, increasing speed and toning muscles. Find out about bodyweight exercises for male gymnasts with help from a fitness minister and certified peak performance coach in this free video clip.

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Hey there. My name is Jay Jones, celebrity peak performance coach and fitness minister and today I want to demonstrate two bodyweight exercises for male gymnasts. Gymnastics, one of the best full body conditioners you can actually engage in and it's as ancient as sports itself. So we want to incorporate two body weight exercises for gymnasts and male gymnasts that will increase not only your power, dexterity but also your flexibility and your ability to balance. So what we want to do is we want to incorporate our physio ball, our old blue ball that you see all the time you want to use this. The first exercise is going to build balance, core strength and of course upper body strength is called a push-up but we're going to change up. We want our fingers to go down here on the ball. So we don't want to be here, we want to be here to keep those wrists nice and engaged and we want to step back. You want to bring your chest all the way down to the ball and push all the way up. By coming all the way up you are really working your shoulders and upper back, down and up, inhale going down, exhale coming up. Alright and you'll see the ball is alive, it's organic, it's moving and that keeps your core fully engaged. Now the next move is called a pike up. The pike up is a very good move because it mimics a handstand, it keeps the core nice and engaged. You want to start in the push-up position as if you want to go down and do a push-up but you're going to take your feet and drag the ball straight in and pike up as high as you can and then back down. In and pike up as high as you can and back down, two more times, we come in, pike up nice and high, working that lower back and core. Last one, we're up and nice and high. My name is Jay Jones, celebrity peak performance coach and fitness minister and that was your fitness footnote on two bodyweight exercises for male gymnasts.

Bodyweight Exercises for Male Gymnasts

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