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Getting started on rings

  • 13-03-2008 03:29PM
    #1
    BobbyOLeary
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    Hi guys,

    I'm on spring break from college at the moment so in my boredom I made myself a set of homemade gymnastic rings. I was curious about how hard they were to use so I commandeered some plastic pipe at home and whipped up a pair.

    As I expected they are damn hard to use. To quote Reilly, rings aren't unstable, you are! Has anybody with experience on rings (looking at rubadub and Reilly here) got any advice for getting started with them? I understand that its all practice but maybe a few ideas for a beginners workout to run through every night or something similar? I'd like to use them as I live in digs for college and I don't have anywhere I can do chins or dips outside of the gym.

    Thanks!


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  • #2
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,388 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    I would check out the forum on www.ringtraining.com

    Practise just holding yourself stable first. Have your feet barely off the ground, stand on tippy toes stabilising yourself.

    If you have a chair or table maybe you could stay stable with one hand on the chair the other on the chair. Maybe try dips like this too. You can just stand there and do dips with your feet on the ground, but try and maximise the weight your hands are taking. Do negatives with the dips, after stabilising yourself drop slowly down.

    After a few sessions you should be OK. Can you do normal dips well? I could do around 8 "static" dips, when I got my rings, and only 1 on the rings, I was soon up to 8 on the rings in a week or so. I think it is really just new muscles coming into play. I can now do 6 dips with around 22.5kg on a belt, I think around 16 without the belt. Last time I did "static dips" I think I did around 22-25.

    Practising pushups on them will work some of the same stabilising muscles.

    After working on rings a bit you will be able to do dips anywhere!, I can do them on using the backs of very flimsy chairs.

    Where are your rings? I have mine in a place between 2 walls, if I put one ring against the wall I am stabilised on that side straight away.


  • #3
    davyjose
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    rubadub wrote: »
    After a few sessions you should be OK. Can you do normal dips well? I could do around 8 "static" dips, when I got my rings, and only 1 on the rings, I was soon up to 8 on the rings.
    How many static dips can you do now?


  • #4
    BobbyOLeary
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    Thanks for the tips. I can do about 15 or 16 parallel bar dips and about 5 or 6 with 15kg on my waist so I thought I'd pop out a few ring ones no problem!

    I'll check out that forum you mentioned, thanks!


  • #5
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,388 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    davyjose wrote: »
    How many static dips can you do now?
    Re-edited my most before I saw that. Think it was 22-25 as mentioned, and probably could have done more if I had tried, it was a warmup before weighted ones, I might test it soon, there are good parallel bars in cabinteely park.


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