Ep. 84 - The Original Iron Sport: Gymnastics

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2020

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Before there was powerlifting, bodybuilding, weightlifting, and strongman, there was the iron game, and it all overlapped. Before that, there was the physical culture movement. During this era, you couldn’t find a strongman or woman who didn’t do hand balancing, calisthenics, or tumbling as a part of their training. Gymnastics has a long history, but today it is its own sport and embedded in some national sport systems to build a foundation for young athletes‘ careers. Further, it’s a major component of CrossFit. Finally, you ever see the delts on a gymnast?? In today’s episode, we explore these relationships, roles, the history of Gymnastics, and the new evolution of sports science within it. To do so we’re joined by Eric’s 3DMJ teammate Andrea Valdez, a former gymnastics coach and young gymnast who has returned to the sport as an adult, and Dr. Dave Tilley who is leading the modern, evidence-based charge in the sport.

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0:00.0	Oh, Eric, we covered your favorite topic today, finding the meaning of lift.
0:05.9	And I want to give everyone just a, I'm going to be honest, an intense visual component.
0:12.3	If you're only listening, that's fine.
0:13.8	I'm going to be very descriptive right now.
0:15.8	So this episode, it's on gymnastics.
0:17.9	Gymnastics is a fantastic episode.
0:19.9	We have Dave Tilly. we have Andrea Valdez.
0:22.6	But I want everyone to picture right now the Iron Cross in gymnastics.
0:27.6	And this is what we're going to do, Eric.
0:29.6	We're going to make this revolutionary and it's never been done before and never will be done again afterwards.
0:33.6	But everyone knows the Iron Cross, your arms are fully extended. They're parallel to the
0:38.3	ground. You're holding onto two rings. Cool. That's been done before. That's basic. Some say it's
0:44.4	one of the hardest things you could do. I call basic. So the iron cult is going to do the iron cross.
0:51.8	What I mean, I'm holding your hand, you're holding mine,
0:54.7	I'm holding a ring, you're holding a ring, a double iron cross.
0:59.5	The double iron cross, I love it.
1:01.6	And the only thing that's also holding us up is draperism in the face of Pymond.
1:06.2	Thank you.
1:06.5	So slight advantage we have spiritually, I would say,
1:10.8	over other people who might try this.
1:12.0	So if you can't do it, just remember we can because we're better.
1:16.0	A frightening advantage, Eric.
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