Questions tagged [rings]
For questions pertaining to usage of gymnastic rings in exercise.
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What should my shoulders position be when doing ring support hold
When performing ring support hold, should I concentrate on having my shoulder blades retracted/clenched, and my chest forward, or is it fine if my shoulders are protracted?
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How much height do you need to hang gymnastic rings?
I want to start training with rings at my local gym, but the bar I would be hanging them from isn't so high and would mean the length of the straps above the rings would be very short. Would this ...
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How would it possible to do Hammer Curls on Gymnastic Rings?
I googled around but did not find any clear ways except for this one quote from 2012 where its not clear how that was being done/ practiced.
Any thoughts/ ideas on how this can be done?
Because ...
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Rings performance and cardio
Does aerobic training (cardio) help a 4-minute gymnastic rings performance?
In Overcoming Gravity Steven Low argues that an Olympic artistic rings performance is around 4 minutes, the same time as ...
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How to perform a ring muscle up?
What would be a good progression to transition from where I am currently: Horizontal Ring Row and Ring Dip to a full ring muscle up (As opposed to a bar muscleup, which is an entirely different focus/...
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How can I set up gymnastic rings?
I am a gymnastics beginner who doesn't want to join a club, nor do I have rings, or a bar for pull-ups, front lever (progressions). However I do have paralletes.
I was wondering they cheapest, ...
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Thickness of gymnastics rings
I want to buy some wooden gymnastics rings for my home gym. I have found models with 2.8,2.9,3.0,3.1 and 3.2 cm diameter. Since I have small hands my first idea was to go with the 2.8 cm rings. ...
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Which resources should I go to for programming ring training?
I just received a set of EXF gymnastics rings (thanks, Team Chaos!) and I have a smorgasbord of individual exercises that I'd like to try. However, I don't want to do just a collection of random ...
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Do ring dips and ring push-ups overlap?
I'm getting a set of gymnastics rings soon, and will be modifying my current strength workouts to use them. I'm not at the stage where I should be doing ring dips yet, but from looking at ring push-...
