Almost 2 years of planche training

22-05-2022 Here I am, publishing the planche progression video, after nine months of non-training for that movement specifically. I wanted to keep that period obscure but lastly I decided to mash up the clips and make the video. Basically I started training this movement in the lockdown period, insead of doing nothing at home and just following online lessons, I dedicated myself to calisthenics. As you can notice, once I reached the advanced tuck form (4-2020) I was hyped and I kept up in training the movement until the last clips. I never had a personal trainer and neither a proper training schedule, I kept on training following my own exercises and perhaps in the beginning I was listening to my body more than in the last period. 6:40 in that month I was attending gymnastic courses and that’s the only time I had a coach (not personal) for one month. Well, I'll never forget what this man told me: “Gymnastics taught me that if you truly want something, you have to work on it everyday”. As numb and fired up as I was in that period, I couldn’t have misinterpreted it better. He was speaking from a general perspective, and of course took his sentence as gold, so I started destroying myself by practicing planche training every single day (9:20). The numb thing was that in August 2021 I wasn’t even listening to my body and my sore tendons anymore, I was just repeating myself to train everyday. Well if you train and you are reading these lines, my advice is to never do something like this. Make the effort to truly listen to your body and if one day your arms are telling you not to move, maybe you should rest. Now, looking back on August 2021, I see a month full of power and a hard training mentality. That’s also why I put that dark dubstep music as the soundtrack for that last period. The thing is, It was not so much about getting the planche just for getting it, it was more giving all myself everyday and …what’s better than draining yourself through that extremely difficult gymnastic movement? As you may have infered, I injured myself not in a neat way, but through a constant attrition and stress on the tendon. Anyways, after difficult months of stopping from training, I learned some important lessons, and took back the basics once again. I never actually trusted linear progressions, of course if you train the body will adapt but the progression is never clean and without flaws. So that was my planche journey, for now I am training for HSPU and of course front lever, maybe one I will face that impressive element which has been the cause of my injury once again. Not for now. Thanks again for reading and watching. Bye and take care y’all. song 1:    • Machinimasound - Rallying the Defense Exte...   song 2:    • Dark Epic Dubstep - "Kathedral" - The Enig...