Calisthenics Ring Training VERSUS Straight Bar Training

In this video, I explain how you can train high-volume or high-rep with gymnastic rings compared with bar bodyweight training and the main differences between them, and how they affect performance and volume overall. Also, what changes and why it is tougher to do ring training. A sort of calisthenics ring training versus straight bar training.
Moreso, I discuss muscle growth if you plan on doing it with bodyweight ring exercises and whether this wouldn't be better on solid bar stations.
Please hear me out! Training with gymnastic rings is very effective for developing muscles, but it's true that because of the increased difficulty, time under tension, and stabilization, it requires more strength and endurance. You need a lot more time to master the most fundamental ring moves.
But that's not only that. I refer to the tempo, rep, and set ranges, and how to get a hypertrophy response by training with gymnastic rings. Enjoy watching!
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[@Doctor-BAR]

you have exercise experience of over a decade and you still call yourself a beginner.... Humbleness at its max....... Respect!

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

Thanks. A beginner, sort of speaking 😄👍. But yeah, no need to be other than humble

[@relentless7719]

this man here deserves so much more attention!

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

KZbin algorithm doesn't agree :))

[@iliveinsideyourhouse3943]

@@OldSchoolCalisthenics Hey I found you out because of KZbin algorithm, but I hope your videos will gets recommend to more other people.

[@gallagherisgod5853]

These new informative style videos are amazing for us calisthenic nerds 😂 Nice one adorian 👍

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

Thanks. It's a lot more comfortable for me like this.

[@Kboges]

Awesome stuff as always, brother! Keep it coming!

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

Thanks

[@endofdayzfitnessu.k2126]

The legend k bogees is in the building

[@wolfydragon4511]

Excellent video.. 💪. Rings are my favourite and a must have bit of kit. I'm working on ring muscle up progressions. 👍🔥💪💯

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

Nice goal 👍

[@carlosacarter]

To articulate the question, as you have, makes this video good to think with.

[@Arboleda_GJO]

Man another big help from you. 🔥

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

thanks

[@Blackfeet]

Great channel with solid advice.

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

Thank you

[@iliveinsideyourhouse3943]

I just ordered some rings :) Can't wait to try them out!

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

Awesome brother

[@JivanCamoirano]

Very happy to be the first like ! great video keep up the great work ❤

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

Thanks bro

[@bhaskarborgohaincontent9834]

I would put a ring on rings and I just love working out on them works on your stability as well and creates that dense muscle effect

[@aadityaprakashsinghrawat6567]

Quality content 👌

[@DT-sk7wt]

Well said! My rings arrive tomorrow!

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

awesome. Check out this ring workout, bro: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3yqf2eeqqmCjNU

[@hayte4650]

Comment for algorithm. Amazing video cant believe i overlooked you all this time :)

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

I do appreciate, thank you. You didn't overlook. I had to prove myself first 😎🙇‍♂️

[@goprimate]

Great tutorial of gymnastic rings!

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

Glad you like them!

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

i have some new videos regarding warm ups

[@goprimate]

@@OldSchoolCalisthenics Will have a look, I like your training philospohy of keeping it simple and woking on the basics💪🏽

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

Thanks.

[@tronknox7684]

Great information

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

Glad you liked it

[@boxingholland]

Thanks for the vid!

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

You bet!

[@boxingholland]

​@@OldSchoolCalisthenicsDo you train everyday or every other day to recover? And do you have a special diet?

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

i train very frequently, 4-6 times a week and when I don't gave time, at least 2-3 workouts a week. my diet, training, all of it, is in the most recent videos. just check them up, go to videos and see the latest ones.

[@boxingholland]

@@OldSchoolCalisthenics thank you, stay strong!

[@wilarz89]

I got some rings during quarantine and they stepped up my calisthenics game, there is more chest activation in dips, pullups get an increase in grip strength,combined with paralletes you get a complete training stimulus. I personally like dips as they are easier on the shoulder and let you go deeper for chest activation. Awesome info.

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

Exactly. Thanks

[@SpaceMonkeyGVTV]

I love how Gymnastics Rings are ultra joint friendly.

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

agree totally

[@nadpad-4192]

I love rings, easily one of the best equipment period

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

Agree

[@ConradoNiehues]

For me it's the best training tool available. Much more intense than bars and lots of movements that we can do on them. Right now i'm working on strict ring muscle ups, training all the phases to get this move. And become much stronger in the journey.

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

nice. didnt even try muscleups yet

[@ENTRIFICE]

Sorry for the brevity of this comment, but the stabilization aspect of Rings not only increases the Time, but ALSO the Tension aspect of Time-Under-Tension. Tension and weight are often mistaken as one in the same. Essentially, this is why Ring exercises are often much more difficult.

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

Agree 👍

[@Teramydog]

and ultimately once mastered - more effective

[@rodbarrett1581]

For everyone doubting if rings are effective look at any gymnasts. The physique and monster arms they have come from ring work. The only weights they use are mostly dumbells and a plate maybe at certain times.. But mostly ring work. Rings will recruit so many more stabilizer muscles that you never thought you had. I just started ring work and it is way more intense. By the 3rd or 4th set it's brutal and I can barely do 10 sets at 15 reps. By set 5 I can barely squeeze out 15 and there are still 5 more sets to go!! On the floor I can do 20 reps for 20 sets no problem. Rings are no joke.

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

coordination, stability, mobility, all abilities rings can develop better than the bar. they are tough, they also train better the pronator and supinated muscles around the arms

[@TeutobergForestryService]

Just did my first push and pull workouts on the rings. Crazy how much stabilization is required for dips. I could only do 10. Very humbling but I feel like all that firing from your prime movers and forearms for stabilizing your mass will lead to strength gains

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

you will get very string through ring training, I promise you that. It's genuinely functional training. Keep going. By the way, I have new workouts posted this year, rings exercises too

[@jtf9089]

Have you ever done the deck of cards pushup workout? If so what did you think?

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

Not quite. Whats that?

[@jtf9089]

@@OldSchoolCalisthenics you grab a deck of cards and pull one out whatever number it says thats how many pushups you do, you rest about 5 seconds then pull another card out until you get through the entire deck. Face cards are 10, Aces can be 11, or 15. A football player named Ray Lewis did this.

[@fastnatsu2433]

Great video ! Do you recommend training til failure or do you always leave 1-2 reps in store at the end of a set of strengh training or hypertrophy training ?

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

Well, at the beginning I always have more strength left for more reps. However, I usually do sets of 10 pull, 20 push, 15 dips and 40 squats. Now, I can do more but I now that with a relatively short break, in a few sets, I am going to feel the pump and hard work so my rep interval will soon be near to failure. Somewhere at the middle of my training, I can still boost the same reps but a lot harder. Then as I get closer to the finish, I break the set and that means, I do more reps than I can possibly do without stopping. So it is a training to failure, kind of, but not since the beginning of my workout. For me, strength or hypertrophy comes as one. I rarely do just one because I am not interested into getting maximum strong at my fullest ability ever, neither being extremely endurable for high-reps. So I go in the sweet spot where I train for hypertrophy and strength and endurance. Check out my other videos on the same topic, brother!

[@cristianionita8359]

i think we have the exact same pair of rings (from decathlon) =)))

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

dada :)) sunt excelente. tin o viata

[@santylago]

Keep your elbows fixed to your body and the rings inside your shoulders for dips.

[@sampetersson5887]

Depends what types of dips you do. There are more varietions on dips when doing dips with Rings, like bulgarian dips

[@cainq6244]

I've been doing 7 sets of pullups, dips, and pushups till failure. Will I progress in this way??

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

if it was a tough challenging workout, then yes.

[@pratipkarmakar01]

Brother make a video on gymnastic rings workout,I can't find this video you have mentioned here.

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

I deleted that one because it did no traffic. Now that you request it, I might make a new one

[@pratipkarmakar01]

@@OldSchoolCalisthenics 💪👍🏻

[@nicholascauton9648]

You're kind of a beginner? LIAR! I'm just kidding. I have to admire your humility. Massive respect. Morals aside, I LOVE gymnastic rings. I would argue that gymnastic rings are all you need for serious upper body training. Even the most basic exercises like push-ups and bodyweight rows (my personal favorite movement pairing) immediately become quite difficult even for experienced trainees. It's the one and only training tool I will never ever leave my home without. I don't know if you watch or have ever watched Dragon Ball Z but using gymnastic rings make me feel like I'm training to become a Super Saiyan.

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

Thank you, brother! I did watch Dragon Ball, all the series and sagas and loved it.

[@iliveinsideyourhouse3943]

Training on gymnastics rings feels likes training on 300x gravity chamber.

[@nicholascauton9648]

@@iliveinsideyourhouse3943 Hell yeah, dude. I fucking love it!!

[@Nick-ij3sf]

I’ve a question: is it correct to say that rings help build more muscle mass than bars? Obv with proper nutrition 💪🏾

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

not quite. in theory, bar could be better at destroying the muscle fibers but rings employ more muscle fibers, so in a way i guess we should train both,

[@deedd1440]

Can you change bars with rings? Example if used rings for mesocycles and did variations. Now switching to rings and Then when get back to bar Will bar have Improve or stayed the same because with rings you cant pull/train as high load as with bar? In other words should you switch out bar work for rings wefhred pullups?

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

oh, yes, definitely. training with rings will make you better for the bar as well. you won't feel weaker for sure. I prefer training both so I guess is a preference rather than which one is best. Some do only ring work because is more ergonomic than installing a pull-up bar and dip station, you know? Then they discover that it successfully replaces the bar.

[@andyearthling1145]

I take a bar into the rings for push ups, rows, Chin ups and pull ups 😉

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

And you do a sort of unstable pushups, yeah

[@andyearthling1145]

@@OldSchoolCalisthenics and rows with all grip. And Chin ups.

[@janglavina]

Try to turn out the rings on top of the dip the chest burn is even better.

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

You are right!

[@Arboleda_GJO]

💪💪💪💪💪💪💪

[@malgentocilla7829]

Aren't rings better because you need to use more muscle for stability thus you train more muscle. And what if you compare two people, one who does pullup bar workouts, and one who does ring workouts, and after for example 3 months you let those people switch from pullup to rings and vice versa. Who would be stronger then, the one who did rings for 3 months, or the one who did pullup bar for 3 months

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

interesting thing is that almost no one did only one for a few months straight. theoretically, rings get you stronger because it recruits more fibers, and thus, it trains balance and coordination too. for muscle definition, the bar has to be better because you won't need to stabilize it

[@iliveinsideyourhouse3943]

@@OldSchoolCalisthenics Isn't the time under tension of the rings or the stabilization is good for muscle definition?

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

No one can know exactly

[@iliveinsideyourhouse3943]

@@OldSchoolCalisthenics I just done high volume session with rings. From my assumption and experience, the stabilization can be an issue but with times, you can balance the rings just like you did with fixed bar and fatigued the pecs and tricep muscles entirely rather than the stability muscles.

[@chaosdragon6588]

Use RTO(rings turn out) when you do the pushing exercises, its much harder

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

Yes, I know

[@andwoofficial9800]

Do you recommend rings for beginners?

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

Only if you can find the right progression or variation you can do in good form

[@andwoofficial9800]

Is it safe for beginners who haven't done pull-ups in bars before?

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

Sure. Just do pull ups properly, in control

[@andwoofficial9800]

Got it. Thanks for the replies!

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

Any time brother

[@Teramydog]

rings are superior - THEY recruit the stabilizers that the bars do not and develop body control not achievable on bars

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

True

[@randomguy8752]

If I have a body like yours I would be shirtless all the time.

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

thanks, brother. I actually am dressed all the time and pretty much elegantly all day round, not even in sports wear except for when I train and am never shirtless unless I am recording for KZbin and need to show my body for people here or run alone on the mountains. Stay strong!

[@jayl2331]

Wood rings >>>>>……>>>>>>>> plastic rings Treat them well.

[@OldSchoolCalisthenics]

wood all day long :))