Gymnastic Bodies stretching program; read Olivia's pinned post

[tcampbellcowie]

Thanks Nathan for your comment. I've just read through the posts since 2015 (I missed pages 2 & 3!). I agree...no need to convert because when one tries the ST method, conversion should be automatic.

[Kit_L]

Hello there @tcampbellcowie: you've trained with the best; forget the rest!

The GB flexibility material is useless for taking an averagely stiff adult body (and it's mostly people with a strength training background who gravitate to the GB strength work, after all, and few of that group are naturally flexible) and teaching them how to change this. We do this well. Yes, Chris's "five seconds to go", stern visage, and a stopwatch in hand has, I am sure, inspired many people! What amazed me was that there was zero instruction!

[tcampbellcowie]

The reason "that there was zero instruction" is because he has zero cues or clues. Yes,  after 20 years I am still coached with the best!

[Jim Pickles]

About the video being referred to: I did see it recently, but cant find the link now. Has the link been removed? I'd be glad if somone could provide it, so that I can check again the points being made.

Many thanks,

Jim.

[Nathan]

10 minutes ago, Jim Pickles said:

About the video being referred to: I did see it recently, but cant find the link now. Has the link been removed? I'd be glad if somone could provide it, so that I can check again the points being made.

Hey Jim, the video (series) being discussed is not freely available. If you saw something, perhaps it was some kind of advertisement.

[Matt Robbo]

On 12/10/2020 at 5:28 AM, Kit_L said:

Hello there @tcampbellcowie: you've trained with the best; forget the rest!

The GB flexibility material is useless for taking an averagely stiff adult body (and it's mostly people with a strength training background who gravitate to the GB strength work, after all, and few of that group are naturally flexible) and teaching them how to change this. We do this well. Yes, Chris's "five seconds to go", stern visage, and a stopwatch in hand has, I am sure, inspired many people! What amazed me was that there was zero instruction!

A bit late to the party. I bought GB stretch series before I found ST. I was following GB foundations for years prior to buying the stretch series. My experience as someone in their late 30's who had never done any real mobility work, was one of extreme frustration, for all the reasons that have been posted on this thread since 2015. The models were all incredibly flexible and were light years ahead of what I could imagine ever achieving. There was no instruction or scaling and I found a lot of it way beyond what I could do effectively. I just found following them demoralising and it reinforced my thinking that I was just "tight' and would never be able to see any progress. 

No surprise I followed them for a few weeks and then gave it up as a bad job. 

Over the past 5-8yrs GB has overtly become a money making enterprise, with it's subscription only option, shiny website with an ever increasing number of routines to follow, showcased by half naked super humans etc.

Happy to have found ST 😬