“The front part of his shoulders is so big, his back goes forward.”
Gymnasts call it gorilla posture.
Brandon Wynn
From http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/sports/2011/04/12/its-just-brute-strength.html :
He knows that sensation, as well as the pain that comes from preparation and performance on the rings in gymnastics.
“Brandon Wynn is a specimen,” said OSU co-head coach Blaine Wilson, a three-time Olympian. “The front part of his shoulders is so big, his back goes forward.”
Gymnasts call it gorilla posture, all the better to meet the grueling sport’s demands. And the rings test a gymnast’s strength like no other event.
“It’s just brute strength,” Wynn said, “when you’re doing these maneuvers.”
“I’ve never lifted weights,” said Wynn.
“The only thing that’s going to get you stronger on the rings is to do the rings,” said Raj Bhavsar, a former OSU gymnast and member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic team.
“A strength sequence is practiced over and over again,” he said. “In an Olympic year, I probably do the sequence over 1,000 times.”
