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Reddit mentions of Overcoming Gravity: A Systematic Approach to Gymnastics and Bodyweight Strength (Second Edition)

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Found 21 comments on Overcoming Gravity: A Systematic Approach to Gymnastics and Bodyweight Strength (Second Edition):

u/eshlow · 145 pointsr/bodyweightfitness

Copy pasta'd from another thread asking about how it was made and our backgrounds. Added #6.

The short story is:

  1. Phi, me, phrakture, and other mods put it together circa 2012-2013.
  2. Phi did most of the heavy lifting for putting together the wiki and overall program coordination
  3. I helped with most of the concepts for routine creation and implementation, much of what was and still is based on my book Overcoming Gravity and Overcoming Gravity 2nd Ed.
  4. A bunch of stretching/mobility was pulled from Phrak's Starting Stretching and molding mobility, although heavily overlaps with a lot of various concepts already out there.
  5. Antranik and other mods were instrumental in finally putting it together in video format.
  6. The RR has undergone a lot of very subtle revisions since then removing some exercises in favor of others. It is one example of how a good beginner routine for bodyweight/gymnastics/calisthenics strength training can work.

    As for people's backgrounds, I'll only state my own straight off my website:

    > Steven Low is a former gymnast, coach, and the author of the Overcoming Gravity: A Systematic Approach to Gymnastics and Bodyweight Strength (Second Edition). He has spent thousands of hours independently researching the scientific foundations of health, fitness and nutrition. His unique knowledge base enables him to offer numerous insights into practical care for performance and injuries. Steven holds a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from the University of Maryland, College Park, as well as a Doctorate of Physical Therapy from the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Steven performed with Gymkana, an exhibitional gymnastics troupe. Since then, he has coached Gymkana athletes and serves as a senior trainer for Dragon Door’s Progressive Calisthenics Certification (PCC).

    > Steven’s training is varied and intense, with a focus on gymnastics, parkour, rock climbing, and sprinting. Feats of strength include: full back lever, full front lever, four one-arm chin-ups on both arms, ten-second iron cross, straddle planche on rings, five reps of +190-lbs. dips, +130-lbs. pull-ups, +70-lbs. strict muscle-up on rings, eight freestanding handstand pushups on paralettes, five hollow back presses, and twenty degrees off full manna. He is currently working on applying his efforts to achieving high level bouldering.
u/internet_observer · 16 pointsr/Fitness

You will want to make sure you are doing a body weight routine that includes more difficult movements and not just ricidulous volume on basic exercises.

/r/bodyweightfitness is a good starting point to get you rolling but if you already have great lifts their routine might not be advanced enough for you. Overcoming Gravity is a great resource with writeups and progressions for exercises although through some extremely advanced gymnastics exercises such as planche pushups.

It should be very easy to keep your size for your upper body with BW exercises. Lower body is a bit harder, especially if you have a very big squat/deadlift. Still doable, but for the most part you still will want to add weight, and will be doing things like weighted pistols and weighted shrimp squats.

Dominik Sky and FitnessFAQs both have youtube channels with a good bit of information.

A place to do pullups is all you really need for bodyweight exercises. I would recommend picking up a set of Gymnastics Rings at some point or another though as they are extremely useful for bodyweight training.

I would increasing your flexibility training a bit. A lot of bodyweight stuff benefits hugely from increased flexibility.

Also lastly, I don't know how advanced of a lifter you are, but if you are a very advanced lifter be a little with some of the very advanced straight arm body weight exercises. They require a lot of tendon strength in addition to muscle. Even if you have a 2x body weight bench for example you will want to still do some tendon conditioning before jumping straight to an iron cross to avoid injury.

u/BullHorn7 · 11 pointsr/bodyweightfitness

Antranik, Tykato, FitnessFAQs, TheBodyweightWarrior, Gregory Scott Fitness, GMB Fitness.

All of them post here regularly/semi-regularly.

/u/eshlow wrote the book Overcoming Gravity on which the Recommended Routine is based off.

I'm sure there's many more that I missed, sorry in advance.

u/VoandesHolador · 10 pointsr/bodyweightfitness

As I said on another thread, he's all about marketing, man.

His form sucks hard. He uses his physique (which is really good, no doubt) as a tool to charge other people, but if you see his videos, you're going to realize his technique sucks.

I was one of his subscribers, but when I started to really dig for knowledge in calisthenics, I realized how he doesn't know whatta hell he's talking about.

If you wanna spend money on something really good, buy the Overcoming Gravity 2 book.

u/mark90909 · 8 pointsr/bodyweightfitness

Doorway pull up bar, paralettes, rings, foam roller, lacrosse ball, slack line, agility ladder, yoga matt, some shorts and a vest to workout in, a subscription to GMBs, meggings, Overcoming Gravity 2 just came out https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0990873854/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481498859&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=overcoming+gravity+second+edition

u/Professor_Red · 7 pointsr/bodyweightfitness

Bite the bullet and get the bodyweight bible, Overcoming Gravity 2nd ed. by bwf's /u/eshlow

Pricey, but the absolute best book on bwf par none. Check out his subreddit, /r/overcominggravity/ , for some of the basic info out of the book.

u/kdz13 · 5 pointsr/bodyweightfitness

I used the FAQ of /r/bodyweightfitness But I've heard good things about Overcoming Gravity

u/zbeptz · 4 pointsr/bodyweightfitness

You should check out his book Overcoming Gravity. It's almost 600 pages of details.

u/spaceyjase · 4 pointsr/bodyweightfitness

Something you may wish to consider is Overcoming Gravity (Second Edition), by /u/eshlow (web). It will allow you to construct your own routine from the information in the book (and there's lots of it!).

u/wiz0rddd · 4 pointsr/Athleanx

I would recommend this book instead: Overcoming Gravity: A Systematic Approach to Gymnastics and Bodyweight Strength (Second Edition) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0990873854/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_vbYCDbH4ZNXQD

Good luck!

u/Filet-Minion · 4 pointsr/bodyweightfitness

Overcoming Gravity: A Systematic Approach to Gymnastics and Bodyweight Strength (Second Edition) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0990873854/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_m.4HybHH9F2P2

Edit: Sorry, I guess I glossed over the part where you said street workout related. This isn't so much street workout, but still such great info.

u/DoomGoober · 3 pointsr/bodyweightfitness

There is no best routine for everyone. It all depends on your goals.

The RR is not the best routine for everyone. It's just a pretty balanced good routine for a lot of people.

But honestly, you already sound intermediate/advanced. You can look at the RR as a good structure (paired exercises, push-pull, vertical-horizontal) and try to borrow it's structure but modify for your strengths and goals.

If you really want to learn, I would recommend you read Overcoming Gravity 2nd Edition. https://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Gravity-Systematic-Gymnastics-Bodyweight/dp/0990873854 That will teach you how to make your own body weight routine.

u/TylerJ86 · 2 pointsr/Fitness

Well here are two great places to start. The first is all free online stuff and if you really get into it and want to learn more OG2 is an awesome resource you can ask someone to buy you for Christmas.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/kb/recommended_routine/

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/0990873854/ref=dp_ob_neva_mobile

u/phusr · 1 pointr/overcominggravity

That is very interesting. The thing I often wonder about Amazon is who is selling the product. The $50 option wasn't there when I did the search. If you look at the sellers one is selling it for $50 and the other is $110. Someone must of gotten it in stock.

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/ol/0990873854/ref=mw_dp_olp?ie=UTF8&condition=new

u/sandsteelpaul · 1 pointr/crossfit

I find that my new coach's look like a deer in headlights when I ask them to scale simple moves. You'd be shocked at hard this for some people (in least I am shocked.) You are referring to this book http://amzn.to/2kJBxy2 right? Do you (or anyone else that would like to chime in, please do) think it's better than Free+style http://amzn.to/2lgZ39l. I've taken crossfit gymnastics cert, but I like to have good references available for my coaches.

Speaking of which, here's a link to list of our favorite books.
https://www.sandandsteelfitness.com/top-personal-training-books-crossfit-nutrition/

u/skny3dmodel · 1 pointr/overcominggravity

$110? Are you sure? Amazon.ca lists the book at $49.93 Canadian currently with shipping.

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0990873854/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_YCgFzbZ400D4P

u/fishyon · 1 pointr/bodyweightfitness

As far as I know there are two programs that you should really consider. Overcoming Gravity by Steven Low and the Gymnastics Bodies series by Coach Sommers.

https://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Gravity-Systematic-Gymnastics-Bodyweight/dp/0990873854

https://www.gymnasticbodies.com/

I'm doing the program by Coach Sommers currently but I have experience with Steven's program as well since I have the first edition of his book.

I like Coach's program because you don't have to mess around with details, you can just buy the program (or borrow it from a friend) and get to work. Also, the mobility sections are absolutely amazing! The bad parts are that Coach himself isn't very friendly in my opinion and most of his experience is working with children. This is potentially not good because training children and training adults is totally different.

Steven's book is fine too and I believe the new edition tackles things not in Coach's program such as the Human Flag and some other cool skills. In my opinion, the first edition isn't really put together that well compared to Coach's product in terms of content and design. But the 2nd edition may have fixed these issues. He doesn't have as much experience as Coach but he is a much more friendly character and helps people out on many different forums.

Hard choice since both will get you to a planche but choose wisely! Have fun!

u/abodyweightquestion · -7 pointsr/bodyweightfitness

Why is Overcoming Gravity so damn expensive? I'm not above paying for a book, but twenty eight quid is a bit much for me...