Unorthodox Approach
Well, I have been away from the site for a long time now, and some major changes have been made in my routine. What changes, you might ask?
I no longer lift weights.
This is mostly true, anyway, as I have been persuaded by a good friend of mine to take up using the gymnastic rings. They’re a really tough workout for the upper body (I still use weighted exercises like squats and leg presses for legs), and have given me great results. If you would have told me 6 months ago that building upper body strength and putting on muscle was possible without weights, I would have told you to get lost. However, after the past 6 months of rings training, I have seen the light–that weight training is NOT required to build a muscular body.
I’ll post pictures sometime soon to illustrate my point for the non-believers. Anyway, after training for this amount of time, I can already hold the Iron Cross, the classic strength position that ring specialists are best known for. This and other accomplishments have only come my way through the use of the rings, and ONLY the rings, for my upper body thus far. Like I said, I’ll update with pics soon.
