Gold Medal Bodies – ParaNettes One PRE-LAUNCH Material

P1 is the most fun I’ve had in forever.

It gave me a specific program… and some cool challenge moves to work towards, but also lots of stuff that was within my reach that I could rock out on.

Really cool progressions. I’m still amazed at how the first month sets up the second month, and how things like tuck-swing-to-L-sit are getting doable, which seemed totally impossible two months ago. In fact, everything seemed totally impossible when I started, but I’m doing it now, and that’s really awesome.

Anyway, I’m having so much fun with the pbars. Thanks again for putting together literally the most fun and accessible program out there. I already bought Parallettes Two, even though it’s a long ways off. =)

I have been meaning to do this for a while now, but I wanted to take a minute to write in and let you know what a wonderful experience I am having on the P1 program. I began my interest in bodyweight strength as a yogi specializing in hand-balancing poses. After some failed attempts at handstand last year, I wound up with wrist injuries and ended up in physical therapy to treat shoulder dyskinesia (I had been doing all my hand-balancing from my chest muscles – oops!). After three months of PT, I started the parallettes program in the hopes that it would help me rebuild strength in the right parts of my body and help me return to pressing and bodyweight strength, using my newfound lats and deep shoulder muscles.

I have been amazed by how much progress the parallettes have brought me, and how quickly. I am progressing faster than I could have imagined, my wrists and shoulders are free from pain, and my yoga practice has improved enormously. I am especially delighted with how easy the paralettes make it to create external rotation in the shoulders in pressing movements – that’s so important for all yoga balances and I find the parallettes make it much easier to create that motion, and thus easier to bring it with me onto the mat when I do poses like headstand prep or forearm balance prep/ Dolphin.

I am going into formal yoga teacher training in October (so excited!) and I definitely plan on recommending parallettes for my students who struggle with external rotation or who have had wrist injuries but are otherwise strong in practice. I also think it offers great “baby steps” toward balancing and proprioceptive awareness that a traditional Vinyasa practice sometimes does not, so it’s a great way to build strength and awareness for harder yoga poses.

Thanks again for making such a great program. It is easy to use and understand and I just couldn’t be more pleased with how my body is responding. I am having a wonderful time doing parallettes!