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I’m a big believer in the superiority of bodyweight conditioning exercises to other forms of training, especially weight lifting and other man made inventions. I used to lift weights, but no more. I know focus almost exclusively on a combination of bodyweight exercises, yoga, and isometric training. Like the animals in nature, I’ve found that training with your own bodyweight is the quickest and easiest path to superior health.

Lately, I’ve been reading about other athletes who came to the same conclusions I have. One of them is Christopher Sommers. He is a former gymnast, current gymnastic coach, and author of the “Building the Gymnastic Body“. The other is an old time professional wrestler by the name of Karl Gotch. I saw old time as Karl Gotch was a real wrestler who wrestled real matches. He was a real athlete who was in superior shape, unlike the cartoon characters you see in the WWE every night. Regardless, they were both amazing athletes and they are both passionate advocates of bodyweight conditioning. Here are their stories.

Christopher Sommers practiced the sport of gymnastics for most of his life. When he decided to retire from the competitive life he started looking for other ways to train. He had been training using gymnastic bodyweight workouts his entire life. Maybe it was time for a change? This is why he decided to take up weight lifting. So, one day he walked into a gym and started lifting weights for the first time. To his amazement, he could lift weights like nobodies business! He was positively smoking all of the other, more experienced weightlifters in the gym. And he wasn’t even one of the strongest gymnasts on his gymnastic team! Here are some of the lifts he performed that day: