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Audio Title: Gymnastic Ring Training: The Controversial Truth About Ring Training
Audio Duration: 0:04:48 Number of Speakers: 1
Transcript
Welcome to the wonderful world of ring training.
Listen, I’m not going to sugarcoat it for you. Ring training is tough. When you see
me doing the videos I have here in our rings programs, I’m up there having fun. But it
is tough training.
I started training with the rings when I was very young. Actually I started when I was
around five years old and spent a lot of time many, many years performing the rings.
So there’s a lot of things that you see me doing at this age that I’m not saying
it’s easy but that I’m used to. What do I mean by that? Well, when you start training
with the rings, you’re going to be sore. The rings are very different than conventional
strength training type things, lifting weights and what not.
It’s a different kind of soreness. You’re probably going to be using muscles that you
haven’t used before, doing movements that you’ve never done before.
Don’t think that you will be able to get them overnight. I’m going to be honest with
you. This is going to take time. It’s tough. I’m not here to burst your bubble or anything
like that. I just want to let you know that you’re going to be sore when you’re training
with the rings. You’re going to have those days, next day where you’re like, “Wow,
what the heck just happened?”
Your hands are going to hurt. You’re going to get blisters. This is something that you’re
going to have to work into. It takes time to get your hands used to ring training and
I’m not just talking about the top of your hands when you’re doing chin-ups. I’m
talking about when you’re getting the muscle up, you’re going to tear skin on your hands.
You’re going to bleed. OK? Sorry, this is how it is. All right?
Also, the straps are probably going to rub on your arms. You got to get used to this.
Now there’s ways that we can get around that though and work up to it. For example,
you can buy wrist bands and you can pull the wrist bands up on your arm so where the rings
rub or pardon me, where the straps rub your arm, that’s going to help.
You can use a little bit of chalk on your hands. That will help with your grip but I
don’t suggest using grips or gloves. I mean if you really, really want to, that’s fine.
But to be honest, you’re going to have to take the time to get your hands used to using
the rings and when you do, your hands are going to be fine.
Yeah, sure, there will still be some times where you might get a little rip on your hand
or something like that. But in the beginning, it’s just going to take a little bit of
time and getting used to. Don’t get frustrated. Everyone goes through this process.
When you start in with phase one, day one, it might not feel that bad to be honest. But
as you’re going through it, there’s going to be days where you’re just like man, this
is so tough. Those are the days that you really need to stick with it.
It’s not that it’s going to get easier but you’re going to start getting used to
it. Once you get past phase one, you will be in a mindset that you will know that you
just got to keep going, basically that rings are tough. You’re over that initial honeymoon
phase. It’s not even a honeymoon because it’s like you’re fighting a lot of the
time.
Again I’m not trying to burst your bubble or anything like that. I’m just letting
you know that when you go into the program and you start at it, if there are certain
movements that you don’t get on the first day, I mean don’t think that something is
wrong. If you could do all of this already, you wouldn’t need me. You wouldn’t need
this program.
Rings are hard. Spend the proper amount of time doing it. Make sure you’re doing it
correctly. Understand that it’s going to be tough and then you can start having fun
with it.
So that’s my advice for you. Stick with it and have fun with it of course. But understand
that it is going to be tough. Do that. You’re going to be successful with the rings programs.
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