205: Christopher Sommer: How To Build Muscle And Mobility With Gymnastic Strength Training
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Ted Ryce
4.8 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2016
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Brief Bio:
Christopher Sommer is former US national team gymnastics coach. During his extensive 40-year coaching career tens of thousands have benefited from the knowledge of Coach Sommer. The conditioning that created hundreds of National, State and Regional champions was adapted and scaled in a way that bridges the poor flexibility and strength of most adults with the possibilities opened up by high-level gymnastics. This led to the birth of GymnasticBodies. Entire new trends in bodyweight training and culture have formed as a result of GymnasticBodies and many students have become successful both in physical prowess and in life.
In this episode, you'll learn:
- 5 Myths about bodyweight training
- The importance of mobility for strength training
- 5 Ways to avoid injury
- How to build lean muscle with bodyweight exercise
- How to recover from workout injuries
- 7 Tips for getting your workout routine back on track
- How your lifestyle can affect your health
- How to change your mindset to achieve your fitness goals
- How stretching can make you stronger
- Top 5 exercises everyone should be doing
- How to train like a gymnast
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| 1:04.6 | I wanted to share that with you. |
| 1:06.1 | And today's guest, I want to introduce him |
| 1:09.2 | by telling you a story. |
| 1:11.2 | October 1st, 2014, I got into a car accident that literally changed my life. |
| 1:18.4 | It turned out I had three cervical disc herniations. |
| 1:22.0 | I went through physical therapy, I knew I couldn't go back to |
| 1:26.6 | lifting weights like I had been. Before that I was on my way to a 500 pound dead lip because I thought it would be cool to do that to show, |
| 1:35.9 | hey, I know what I'm doing and I can put it into practice and I can get strong. |
| 1:40.3 | But I could not go back to that. |
| 1:44.0 | I knew I needed to do something else |
| 1:46.0 | and I know that body weight training, |
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