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Muscle-up and ring training guide

» by gubernatrix March 5th, 2008 at 12:47 am » Comments (10)

The muscle-up is one of the most challenging tests of strength for the amateur trainee. If you’ve mastered dips and pull-ups and you are looking for your next challenge, add the muscle-up to your arsenal.
If you want to learn this difficult move you will need some excellent guidance and Crossfit London’s Ring Training guide by […]



How-to: Dip

» by gubernatrix February 21st, 2008 at 12:37 am » Comments (18)

This is the fifth article in my series of Top 10 Functional Strength Exercises. The aim of this series is to introduce some of my favourite strength exercises, that people may not be aware of or may not have tried.
What is the dip?
The dip is an upper body strength exercise where you lower and raise […]



Ring training: getting started

» by gubernatrix January 23rd, 2008 at 8:56 pm » Comments (19)

You don’t have to be able to do muscle-ups and front levers to benefit from training with rings. They make even old favourites like push-ups and dips more challenging because you have to work to stabilise them. You’ll probably be surprised at how much more difficult an exercise can be on the rings – I […]



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