If there are 6 exercises for each foundation movement/hold in each foundation ebook each with a cycle of 12 weeks before progressing to the next exercise/hold then that would be 72 weeks per ebook. Multiplied by 4 gives 288 weeks or around 5 and a half years to master a FL, sPL etc.

This seems like a long time. (I have no problem taking things slow and being patient nor am I shy of hard work by the way). If you finish a 12 week cycle and find that you can now master the next exercise in the progression as well, can you skip a 12 week cycle for that mastered exercise -probably unlikely to happen I guess?

Has anyone used Coach Sommer's foundation or handstand series? Yup, both of them. What was your experience with it and did it help? I really like them and they still make up the majority of my workouts. You should be aware that unless you have excellent shoulder mobility you probably won't be doing handstands in H1 for quite some time. This is Coach Christopher Sommer. I am a long time US Jr National Team Coach and the founder of GymnasticBodies.com. Limit my search to r/bodyweightfitness.

Or is 5.5 years about right for the all movements? Some of them should take longer than others too no?

Serial number crack. Fantastic resource totally worth the money. I really like the fact that I can start this stuff thoroughly now and I don't have to worry about programming anymore! If there are 6 exercises for each foundation movement/hold in each foundation ebook each with a cycle of 12 weeks before progressing to the next exercise/hold then that would be 72 weeks per ebook. Multiplied by 4 gives 288 weeks or around 5 and a half years to master a FL, sPL etc. This seems like a long time. (I have no problem taking things slow and being patient nor am I shy of hard work by the way). If you finish a 12 week cycle and find that you can now master the next exercise in the progression as well, can you skip a 12 week cycle for that mastered exercise -probably unlikely to happen I guess?

You can skip any exercise for which you meet the mastery requirements. Though it is not explicitly allowed in the book, if you come close to meeting the requirements, it may be reasonable to begin the training cycle on a more advanced week, such as the 5th or 9th. Also, the exercises and progressions in the later three books are not yet released. How far exactly they go is not yet known. It might peak at holding a straddled floor planche, or it might peak at straddled erbs on rings.

We also don't know what training schedule later volumes will use. Rather than 12 weeks, they might be on an 8 or 10 week cycle for each exercise instead of 12. (Though 14 or 16 is also possible). Has anyone understood the section on fast tracking? Yours in Fitness, Coach Sommer If you're talking about the first page of the 'getting started' part, then yeah. Pretty simple, on day 1, test the mastery requirements, if you can do them.

Great, move on to next progression and test that one out. If you can't complete it, then that's the cycle you need to do next. Hope I got that right. I thought the exercises looked quite easy to be honest but I was surprised earlier when I tried the mastery requirement and found out that I couldn't do them! Don't be fooled people, these are harder than they look!

You can skip any exercise for which you meet the mastery requirements. Though it is not explicitly allowed in the book, if you come close to meeting the requirements, it may be reasonable to begin the training cycle on a more advanced week, such as the 5th or 9th. Also, the exercises and progressions in the later three books are not yet released. How far exactly they go is not yet known.

It might peak at holding a straddled floor planche, or it might peak at straddled erbs on rings. We also don't know what training schedule later volumes will use.

Rather than 12 weeks, they might be on an 8 or 10 week cycle for each exercise instead of 12. (Though 14 or 16 is also possible). It seems more likely that a straddle planche would be the end goal of a 'Foundation' series, rather than an erb on rings, I think. Everyone, be honest to yourselfs or you WILL regret it! If you are not sure which one to start on pick one of lower difficulty. After the seminar in Finland I started a 12 week cycle with the foundation elements. SL, HBP, RC, SLS have been working great BUT For the PL and Manna I went to hard.

For the Manna I dicovered it quit early and could change but for PL it took untill week 10 when I hit a wall and had to rethink. Remember that you are building a base with the easier stuff that you later will be very greatful for when you are hitting the harder stuff. As Coach stated read the section titled Getting Started. One of the biggest issues in the average fitness 'program' is they only are good for a few months at best. Then it's on to something entirely different. This approach just doesn't work in gymnastics training which is based on progression.