Yuri van Gelder interview

Interview with gymnast Yuri van Gelder while he is training for the World Championships in 2005.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• gymnast
• gelder
• training
• shirtless
• muscle
• pecs

[tomgiac]

@billysue2 yes they can. it takes a lot of consistency and dedication. the biggest factor is time. building muscle naturally takes so much longer then if you are using roids. i will grant to you that genes are a big factor but it is possible

[MicrosoftIndesign]

@Stockholm1990 oh yes i have hannibal in my favorites. those guys are ridiculous

[Jmorgan721]

@Jmorgan721 sympathy, not symphony. Darn you auto correct.

[Jmorgan721]

@MoronHunterD obviously cocaine was a bad idea, but I still feel some symphony towards the guy. He was kicked out of the dutch gymnasts union, had his medal taken away and lost his job with the dutch military. Even he said it was really stupid, but if you've been a substance abuser before and you have national competition level pressure on you, I can see why that might have been a very easy time to slip back into the addiction.

[MoronHunterD]

Hope the cocaine was worth it dude.

[XRePete]

@fermindiaz1 lmao. Bionic is what I meant in the sense that his body looks supernatural. ...Thanks for the linguistic tips though. Hope I'm not using too many large words here lol.

[fermindiaz1]

@XRePete i agree with you but you need to completely state your ideas instead of trying to use large words. Bionic refers to electronic or mechanical parts, not to be used in the place of BIOLOGICAL. And "Btw" you didnt write a complete sentence at the end; incomplete thought

[XRePete]

Its funny how people go on and on about steroids whenever they see someone ripped like that. I haven't seen an elite olympic level gymnast who doesn't have a bionically ripped body. It's a by product of their job and hard work. Btw just to state the obvious, this is one of the top athletes in the world, it's hardly surprising that he's physical specimen.

[crazymexican209]

@tomgiac I agree completely, after you've gained the strength to master the move it becomes a matter of endurance and hypertrophy. Most of these gymnasts are very light being around 150 lbs average. If you don't think you can be 150 lbs and ripped out of your fucking mind without steroids then you probably never really been good at dieting.

[DjBaldux]

@TheNin0007

Because lots of moviment are simple if you are short. Think the hirondelle, or the victorian.

And if you are short, you are lighter

[Powerman8885]

@TheNin0007 because of training from very young age and genetically too. It's easier to do such kinds of movements when you are short.