Tricking | Trick me up!

I recently started gymnastics training 4 weeks for the purpose of tricking. To give you a little background about me, I’m not your average person you’d think would want to be a tricker. I’m 34 years old, 89kgs / 196 lbs, 5″11 / 180cm tall, have very little flexibility and I work in IT, so my arms and fitness levels are way down.

It’s only since the last week I started weighing myself and I’m starting to see the results. I would have estimated myself to be around 90-93kgs / 198 – 205 lbs in weight. When I first weighed myself last week I was suprised I was at 89kgs /196 lbs. 6 days into weighing myself I’ve already lost 1.8 kgs / 3.96 lbs.

The goal is to reach an ideal weight of 75 kgs / 165lbs for tricking.

I’ve focused on 4 areas which I beleive is essential to making any progress.

1. Mindset
2. Exercise
3. Diet
4. Skillset

These are the 4 areas that I beleive will help you.

1. Mindset – Having the correct mindset will determine how fast and far you’ll go. It basically governs everything you do. If there’s an area you’re not progressing as you’d like it, it’s most likely related to the mindset.

Overcoming as many obsticles, fears and limiting beliefs will allow you to speed up yoru development in all areas. Remove any excuses that you have, know that anything is possible if you put your heart into, go for it and have fun.

2. Exercise – You’ve got to build up your strength, speed and flexibility. It’s very important to be able to develop the body required to be able to perform tricking. By increasing the strength, speed and flexibility, it will give you a bigger WOW factor when performing your moves. It’s very important to have a workout plan to maximise your potential. Mixing up weight training and cardio on different days is a great idea and is commonly used in the body building industry. It’s best to break weight training into 2 or 3 times a week. Each day will work out a section of the body while allowing time for it to grow and repair before working it again. In between days, cardio is used to build up your aerobic ability and burn any excess fat. Be sure to warm up before doing any form of exercise to reduce the risk of injury.

3. Diet – Your diet is the source of your fuel. You only get out what you put in. By putting in clean fuel, you’ll not only be doing your body favours, but you’ll have more energy and look great. I’ve wiped out a lot of greasy and sugary foods in my diet. Plain water is my main source of hydration, and I’m taking supliments to help my body grow and speed up the recovery process.

The foods that I do eat are:

Fruits – Banannas, water melon, rock melon, grapes

Meat – Chicken (lean, breast side, no skin), salmon and tuna.

Veges – Mostly green veges

Nuts – Almonds

Suppliments – Protein shakes, Flax Seed oil, Glutamine, Green vege drink (alkalyze), Vitamin C, BCAA, and Multi vitamins

Foods avoided – Bread, pasta, greasy food, red meat, butter, milk, cheese

I won’t go into too much detail on why the above are selected, I’ll leave that for another time as there’s quite a lot of information and logic behind it.

On weight training and gymnastic days, I increase the number of carborhydrate intake to help fuel the strenuous activities. On cardio days, I reduce the carborhydrate intake to help burn as much fat during the exercise process.

I’m already starting to see great results in the short amount of time, and I noticed a 6 pack is just starting to develop which I’m really excited about as I’ve never had one before.

4. Skillset – This is where you develop and hone your skills. Be sure to give yourself plenty of time on and off the floor to develop your skillset. Learn as much as you can through tricking tutorials, watch as many vids, be sure to visualise you doing your moves and go out to practise it.

Having started only 4 weeks ago, right now, my tricking skill level is at a very basic level. I can barely do hand stands, can do a kip up, but I’ve already started taking steps to do forward and backward aerial somersaults as well as learning forward gainers.

Be sure to practise in a safe environment, and just keep at it. Review your moves with a video if possible and find a mentor if you can to teach you.

This stuff works. Follow it and you’ll get simular results. If you have any questions or anything, feel free to ask

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