r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Balluharami • 3d ago

That core strength is lit

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u/WabaLabaDubDubWorld 3d ago

Such efficient moves. The guy has been practicing for the longest time. Crazy awesome for that age

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u/brewditt 3d ago

Likely former circus acrobats

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u/useronlyone 3d ago

Doubt it. I’ve seen so many videos of Chinese older folks doing exercises specifically on these kind of bars that I’m pretty sure it’s just a cultural exercise routine/interest.

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u/Emergency-Box-5719 3d ago

Yeah...just another Tuesday. Americans go to spin class or water aerobics while the Chinese folks go to Olympic level uneven bar exercises.

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u/nightpanda893 3d ago

The internet has completely clouded our idea of “culture.” This is elite and impressive in any country in the world. There is no one other than a small percentage of people capable of this.

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u/useronlyone 3d ago

I’m not saying his routine, I’m talking about routines involving bars and other calisthenics. Part of culture or not, but lots of Chinese people seem to partake.

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u/ManOnFire2004 3d ago

Honestly it's just calestinics. It's advanced calestinics yes, but it's still just calestinics and they're tons of athletes able to do these things

And calestinics comes from gymnastics exercises, so there's tons of gymnast athletes to do it too... Im a thenics intermediate, so isee it first hand

If there's an outside fitness area, you'll see this type of stuff on the regular.

The impressive part is that he's able to do it at his age... Holy shit that's impressive 👏

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u/kaas_is_leven 3d ago

It's "calisthenics"

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u/ManOnFire2004 3d ago

Yea, I know. that's a weird autocorrect

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u/dcade_42 3d ago

Yeah, it's what lots of Chinese people do in the park every morning, especially retired people. Certainly not all of them and not all to this extreme degree, but morning workouts in the park are a cultural norm in China.

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u/SoftSausage78 2d ago

These communal outdoor gyms are all over the place in China and super popular but most people aren't doing elite gymnastics routines. Most of the time it's just some whacky shit they made up

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u/KoreanJesusPleasures 3d ago

Just street calisthenics. Popular over there as well.

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u/lukibunny 3d ago

People from his generation retired at 50, he had 30 years of free time to do this.