Since we're all debating whether this thread actually serves its purpose, I figured I'd just post a few shots of myself. I’ve dropped three photos here before—sorry for the repetition—but they were kind of random. This time, I’m posting them all at once so you can actually see the progress, and hopefully, it might motivate someone else out there.
Here is where I was back in March 2009, right after sitting out for about a year and a half due to a nasty injury in my left shoulder:
Around that time, I started getting back into training, specifically following the Naked Warrior book by Pavel Tsatsouline. I was basically just waiting until I could move into a new apartment on the other side of town where I’d finally have the space to focus on gymnastics.
I ended up moving in early November, and that's when I really dove into the gymnastics work. Here I am in July 2010 (so, about seven months into the routine) during a training session:
The photos are pretty blurry and a bit hard to make out, so if anyone is curious about what I'm actually doing or how the holds look, the figures in order are:
L-sit, tuck planche, tuck front lever and
flat tuck back lever. Feel free to Google them and compare. Over the summer, I was a bit sloppy with my cycle programming and loading, and I wasn't eating nearly enough since I didn't have any steady income coming in 😢 so, by August, I looked like this:
In November:
And by late November:
I haven't taken any recent photos, but I think I will soon, so I'll post them when I do. I assume most people on the forum will be most interested in the advanced variations of push-ups and pull-ups, but I'll probably post a little bit of everything.
