Rings of Power: The Secrets of Successful Suspension Training--A Simple, Proven System for Building Sustainable Strength

Rings can have a redemptive--and almost magical--impact on your long-term strength training… Why? Because ring work replicates natural, multi-dimensional, functional, self-correcting movement. Rings reduce the destructive stress on the joints often caused by traditional weight lifting--with its repetitive, forced, linear “grinding of the gears”. With ring work, the adaptive, strength-enhancing stress goes to the muscles--where it belongs…
The rings are strength saviors for the over-forties--and in many cases represent a wiser, safer choice for younger athletes seeking to push their physical capabilities to ever-greater heights.
The forgiving, user-friendly rings have the power to:
• Restore former strength lost to joint pain
• Rekindle your passion for intense, results-producing exercise
• Reengineer your body into a sleeker, tougher vehicle that continues to get stronger and stronger and stronger--pain-free
• Reverse the damage and imbalance wrought by an over-reliance on machine-based exercise
• Release you from the strength plateaus in your training--by introducing an infinite variability of adaptive challenge into your workouts
• Reclaim your full physical capabilities--and then help you exceed those capabilities
• Rejuvenate your system--through a newfound freedom from pain and a newfound ease of movement
And the glory of it is that--in his inspirational Rings of Power--Mike Gillette gives you a super-simple yet immensely powerful plan to immediately transform yourself physically with rings alone. Follow Gillette’s clear-cut guide--and your severely-enhanced athletic capability is a foregone conclusion…
“If you care about getting strong, staying strong, and remaining injury free, Rings of Power is essential reading. I incorporated rings into my own training program a couple of years ago and am glad I did. At 45 years old, I am able to continue my strength pursuits unhindered by the joint and tendon injuries that plague many in the over-40 athletic community.
I wish I had Mike Gillette’s book when I started with rings. The crystal clear instruction on techniques and progressions in this book would have saved me the countless hours of often-fruitless experimentation.
Rings of Power will help you harness the power of your entire body in optimal synergy with your nervous system to greatly surpass the strength results seen with traditional isolation training, while bullet-proofing your joints and tendons against injury. The result is true, useable strength that translates to both your most demanding athletic pursuits and your daily life. This is a fantastic book for all ages, but absolutely essential for the aging athlete.”--DR. CHRIS HARDY, author of Strong Medicine
“Finally--one of the great modern strength experts has taken the most powerful mass and power-building tool from pro gymnasts and ‘liberated’ this tool for the rest of us... Ring work is a very old method of total-body training, while being cutting-edge at the same time, and Gillette is clearly a master of this art. The finest book on this topic ever published.
When a legendary powerhouse like Mike Gillette dumps the bench presses and preacher curls for bodyweight methods, it's probably time to put the usual junk techniques on hold and listen up... and when Gillette tells you that he actually gained strength and mass with his new methods while healing his old joint problems, you'd be crazy not to want to hear what he has to say.
Possibly the best aspect of this book is that Gillette takes the athlete all the way from weak and shaky to insanely badass-strong with just a few technical modifications, and using a single training tool. Five stars from Paul!”--PAUL WADE, author of Convict Conditioning
"Rings of Power is simple and to the point. If you follow through on these workouts and methods provided by Mike, you WILL build impressive strength from top to bottom."--ZACH EVEN-ESH, author of The Encyclopedia of Underground Strength and Co