How I Transformed My Body with Gymnastics Training

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In this video, I’m going to show you how I build more than 20 lbs of muscle mass and insane body awareness with gymnastics training, and how you can do the same!

My story is pretty long, but I’ll tell you in a shorter form with the 3 phases I went through.

I saw gymnastics for the first time when Szilveszter Csollány won the olympics in 2000, I was 8 years old. This time ibviously I didn’t think about getting started with gymnastics as it seemed super difficult and I didn’t have the opportunity to do gymnastics where I lived.

My first real life experience with gymnastics was in high school, where my PE teachar had gymnastics classes after school 3 times a week.

When I first saw the gymnast guys I was impressed how they performed the routines, and it seemed more achieveable than an olympic routine.

So at the age of 15 I started to attend these classes, however I was pretty unsure if it’s for me since I was a pretty skinny guy. This is where my journey begins.

The goal of these training sessios was to learn the routines on each apparatus, so we can compete with other high schools.

It wasn’t about getting strong and shredded, we haven’t been focusing on that at all. The strnegth and muscle we got was all from performint the routines, but it was already a good foundation compared to begin an average guy.

So to sum up, in this phase the challenge was rather learning the routines than building muscle and look better. Sometimes we had challenges with rope climbing or doing 1 muscle up on the rings, but nothing crazy.
From this point, gymnastics entered my life, but there was a period when it was more in the background.

Since I really liked the training and it went well over time, I definitely envisioned my future as a coach. Of course, this could be realized as a group or personal trainer, so I went in that direction after high school and started going to the classic fitness gym.

Here I worked out mostly with machines and weights and gymnastics was more in the background.

I completed the coaching courses, I started working with clients, but I started to get really bored with the gym training itself.

This is not surprising after doing gymnastics, the traditional gym exercises were not that exciting.

Not to mention the lack of real motivation since most people around me took steriods and set different goals..

I became more and more attracted to the strength and body awareness that gymnasts represent, I liked skills such as handstands, human flag, front lever or planche, but they seemed really out of my reach.

Especially since after I went back to the gymnastics gym I felt like I couldn't do anything my joints hurt so much - my body was used to something completely different with weight training.

It didn't help either that several gymnastics coaches told me that it was too late to start these elements because I was too old.

However, I wanted to learn those skills so bad that I tought it’s worth a try to get started so I started to go back to the gymnastics gym and train, learn from gymnasts.

Everything got clearer as at this point I was in university learning more about anatomy, biomechanics etc, so I could use that knowlege building my plan.

The conclusion of this phase was that training in the gym was not satisfactory for me in the long term, even though I was satisfied with the results physically, when I tried any bodyweight exercise I felt very weak and my joints hurt, and I felt that ok i have muscles but i can't really do anything meaningful with my body.

So then the third period began, when at the age of 22 I started to make my dreams come true, not bothering with those who held me back.

I started to put together a plan based on which I moved towards the desired skills.

During this time, I still went back to the gym to train my clients, who saw the videos I shared on Facebook or Instagram and they wanted to train this way, so I started using the methods that I had tried on myself.

Over time, I stopped training in the gym and all my clients trained with me in the gymnastics gym with their own body weight and gymnastic exercises.

Here was the real breakthrough, the consciously and gradually structured training brought the desired result. With 3 well structured sessions a week, and going step by step with the exercises, I managed to achieve the all the desired skills.

It's the same with my students. Handstands, chest pull-ups, muscle ups, flags, etc.

This system has been developed for more than 10 years and has been used successfully by thousands of people. It’s the only real shortcut that will help you reach your goals sooner if you choose this form of training.