Reviews and Testimonials for GMB Programs

42,668 people from over 102 countries have used our programs, and a good many of them have been kind enough to write in and share their success stories.

Many using our programs to help them overcome unique challenges on the road to building strength and skill their friends and families have come to envy.

And if they can do it, you can too.

Since going through Vitamin, Stephen started regaining the ability to engage in activities that used to cause him aggravation (like squatting and walking down stairs).

Elements helped Amanda discover how movement could make her body stronger and more resilient. The back pain she’d developed with pregnancy went away with Elements.

Josh had been a kettlebell coach for a number of years when he injured his wrist. Parallettes One helped Josh work around his wrist injury while building real strength and control.

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Elements

Vitamin

Focused Flexibility +

Integral Strength

Parallettes Curriculum

Floor Curriculum

Rings Curriculum

Recommended by the Pro’s

Steve Kamb

NerdFitness.com

Professional, personal, and funny, these guys know their stuff, create fantastic programs full of value, and really make you feel confident that you can learn some pretty epic moves. GMB rules!

GMB’s programs are so good, I wish I’d created them myself.

Al Kavadlo

Bodyweight Strength Expert

The GMB Fitness team has always impressed me with their practical, systematic approach to exercise.

Elements

Strength, Flexibility, and Control are the 3 elements of physical autonomy, and Elements gives you a solid foundation in all of them with simple locomotive movement patterns you can do anywhere.

8 Weeks of Daily Programming
Balanced Training
Suitable for Beginners
Clear Instruction
No Equipment

We designed this program to be the perfect introduction to GMB.

Rob Arthur

Raleigh, NC, United States

I was a bit worried that I wouldn't be able to complete many of the movements due to limitations as a result of aforementioned shoulder issues. I couldn't have been more wrong! I've been able to move at my own pace, and ease into the movements a little bit at a time. Working through Elements has helped me develop stability and range of motion with my shoulder that I never thought I'd regain.

Establishing an uncomplicated exercise routine at home was really important. With a toddler running around, Elements offered a safe program that could be done anywhere, anytime and potentially in PJs.

Justin Hepler

Scottsdale, AZ, United States

Over the last decade I have had my left shoulder rebuilt, multiple herniations of my lumbar spine and even a broken neck, and today I am stronger than I have ever been. I am amazed by your programs and what they do. I am living proof that they work and I am truly humbled.

Sandi York

Buffalo, NY, United States

I didn't expect to feel so good. About halfway through Elements, a nagging lower back pain I lived with for years was suddenly gone. I move a lot more freely, in general, and have greater mobility in my hips and shoulders which helps with all of my outdoor activities.

Russ Taeza

HI, United States

By the end of the course, those little aches [in my lower back] have completely gone. And I am steadily gaining additional strength, improved body posture, balance, motor control, and body awareness as I continue to practice and explore the movements.

Amanda

Monkey and Frogger definitely force my hips into a deeper squat which I feel gives me more range of motion and flexibility. It has also built up my upper body strength which has prepared my body for other movements such as handstands!

Amarjeet Bains

India

I signed up for Elements, and I must say that your programs are really AMAZING! I thought I was born with the ability not to squat! Now I can squat deep fairly well... THANK U SOOOOOO MUCH!

I'm AMAZED at how much my active mobility has improved in just 3 weeks of Elements. I feel so much more in control of my body, and feel like my body has a lot more options for moving around now. It's incredibly fun to "explore" those movement options and just play!

Natasha Grout

United Kingdom

Elements will always hold a special place in my heart, as it was the beginning of a new way of looking at movement and exercise, and branching away from the gym mentality. Elements allowed me to move anywhere and brought movement play into my life. It was a revelation, it felt so liberating and free.

Build Physical Autonomy

With Elements, you’ll build strength, flexibility, and body control through locomotive exercises and targeted mobility work, in just 8 weeks.

GMB Elements Details

Elements

Your Foundation for Physical Autonomy

Vitamin

Vitamin is the only program devoted to building your movement quality with dedicated daily work on a variety of motor challenges and specially selected movement skills.

4 Weeks of Daily Practice
Build Body Control
Carefully Selected Skills
Adaptable to Any Level
No Equipment Needed

We designed Vitamin to address the obstacles to developing better movement ability.

Lauri Arumäe

Finland

Vitamin is incredibly accessible and flexible. All you really need is 15 minutes of internet access a day.

Pierre Wedemo

Stockholm, Sweden

Where I notice the biggest difference is in BJJ practice. I can move more freely and I have better control over my body, and I didn’t have bad control before, so it's quite impressive how much four weeks can do!

JP Trudel

Quebec

I now move better, with more control and precision over my body. I now learn new moves a lot faster, and I can really visualize what needs to happen to nail it.

I am always looking for new and different ways to move. Actually, Vitamin just reminded me of ways I used to move and had stopped. I was a professional Broadway Dancer and High Aerial Tumbler, and the Vitamin program just made me ask myself, "Why did you stop moving around on the floor?"

I was looking for something new to try and the movement style of training in GMB's Vitamin course peaked my interest. I was most excited to learn how to roll out of my handstand, and also about my improved wrist strength from the program. Plus my son likes rolling around on the ground with me, so it's a win win!

I signed up for Vitamin thinking that it would be helpful for my capoeira practice, but I had no idea just how much my vocabulary of movements would expand over 28 days. It's great that we don't need any special equipment for our sessions, and that just a few minutes of regular, daily practice can yield such a treasure trove of benefits.

Andreas B.

Germany

The GMB Vitamin course helped me to find the pleasure of the movement. The playful exercises helped me to find the way back to my childhood. At the age of 50, there are a lot of movements we don't risk to do anymore. Vitamin showed me it is still possible to do these things.

Michael Steininger

Hamburg, Germany

I wanted to make rolls, jumps, twists and turns look just as smooth as my pull-ups, muscle-ups, and dips. So the "goal" with the program was to be able to move with more grace and ease, controlled but dynamic, flowing if you will, and to be more free in my options of movement. Right now I'm getting to the point where I can just combine different movements to a flow as I go along. Doing this is fun as hell!!

Jouni Nenonen

Sweden
Visby, Sweden

The most important thing I’ve learned from Vitamin is that I’m not a hopeless case. It IS possible to learn to do new things and skills even if you are almost 50 years old and have never been involved in gymnastics before.

Explore What Your Body Can Do

Vitamin devotes 4 weeks of daily practice to mindfully exploring a wide variety of movement patterns for greater motor control and agility.

GMB Vitamin Details

Vitamin

28 Days of Movement Exploration for Motor Control Development

Focused Flexibility +

Most stretching programs give you a generic routine to follow, or worse yet, insist that you need specialized equipment. FF works with your body to improve range of motion quickly and easily.

Increase Your Flexibility & Mobility Fast
Reduce Pain and Tightness at Work
Finally Achieve Full Splits & Bridges
Proven Method & Protocol
Targeted to Your Specific Needs

There is no more complete or easier-to-use flexibility system available.

Jin Wa

FF helped me work into a full squat, something I’ve never been able to do, in about a month of training. The GMB programs have been the easiest for me to follow and adhere to.

Simon Fagg

NY, United States

So far after one flexibility workout, I can safely say that was far more satisfying than anything I’ve ever used for stretching workouts before. For once something actually felt as though it will be effective, and dare I say, stretching has gone from chore to exciting!

Charlie Brown

South Carolina, United States

I was a stiff old cabinet maker who never much thought about flexibility until I found FF, which gives me a very easy-to-follow, nuts-and-bolts approach, and a process for building the necessary skills one step at a time.

Linda Jackson

CA, United States

My pancake stretch just improved really fast. I went from barely being able to bend forward at all to being able to be a pancake and being flat on the floor. The swiftness of the change was really gratifying and surprising and fun. In yoga, I used to be able to do a hero pose with my knees bent back, lying down, and that hasn't been accessible to me for a few years. The other day I was able to go all the way back! It was like somebody else's legs.

Matthew Suderman

Quebec, Canada

Focused Flexibility changed the way I stretched. Now in my static/PNF stretching I always use the pattern of dynamic stretching followed by PNF as described in FF. I find the dynamic movements make the PNF less uncomfortable so it’s easier to spend more time stretching. I also think that it reduces injury because the movements make me stronger near the current limits of my flexibility.

Dunte Hector

The Fit Life Personal Training
Austin, TX, United States

Chronically tight hip flexors (sagittal flexion) and weak lateral movers were causing extreme lower back discomfort after running, jumps, and heavy squatting. Focused Flexibility let me take a targeted approach, which proved more effective than the "stretch this" instructions I got from a massage therapist.

Steven Gooderham

England, United Kingdom

I have incorporated Jarlo’s flexibility tactics into my martial arts stretching and whilst teaching tonight I got stomach and chest to the floor on the pancake stretch. My progress is really down to doing things in the right way.

Alun Thomas

Canada

The Focused Flexibility program has actually allowed me to focus on the long neglected area of my own flexibility, and I'm now able to sleep for 8 hours without waking up in severe pain throughout the night.

Simon Robinson

United Kingdom

I didn’t really understand how to stretch before or how to breathe while stretching. Grouping of specific areas also helped a lot because I didn’t understand that before either! I really liked the format.

Get Flexible Fast

Focused Flexibility is based on assessing your specific restrictions to easy movement and working on them consistently with the best protocols available.

Focused Flexibility Details

Focused Flexibility

Targeted Range of Motion Exercises for Your Specific Needs

Integral Strength

Eight weeks of clear, progressive work on classic, proven bodyweight exercises that develop all-around strength for moving your body better in any physical activity.

8 Weeks of Programming
Intuitive Course Format
Minimal Equipment and Time Required
Clear Instruction
Smart Progression

Integral Strength will make you stronger for any activity, guaranteed.

Kate Beutel

Bethlehem, PA, United States

I've completed Integral Strength, and I'm most excited about seeing my training reflected in better stamina during my aerial work. I train for FUN, in all its various forms! I really enjoy aerial arts and dance, so building my strength and flexibility for those things is a primary focus for me.

My flexibility has greatly improved, so much so that I can get into bridge position now, and am close to getting my L-sit. I also achieved my first unassisted chin-up from a dead hang. In all those years of weight training, I was never able to do chins without the assist of jumping from the ground.

Chris Shimana

Las Vegas, NV, United States

I'm a 47-year-old retired military leader and a competitive powerlifter, with a host of service connected injuries. Integral Strength has already reduced a number of the aches and pains that are typical among Master Class lifters and many people my age.

Laura Try

London, United Kingdom

I think my shrimp squat practise most days is what has made my legs strong enough to complete a challenge like this with little running training. Thank you, GMB!

Integral Strength is a well-designed program. It has a combination of strength and mobility and stretches, and it improved my core a lot, which helped me to be more stable.

Amanda Chung-Fat

Paris, France

I am stronger now than I was when I was rowing in college, but the best thing about the Integral Strength program is that it teaches simple, effective, and really cool movements that can be done anytime, anywhere, and for a lifetime.

Get Strong with Bodyweight Exercises

Integral Strength is an intermediate strength program that bridges the gap from generalized movement skill to more specific training.

Integral Strength Details

Integral Strength

Build Practical Strength with Bodyweight Exercises

Parallettes Curriculum

Parallettes are a fantastic tool for building strong, healthy shoulders and a solid torso. Our Parallettes One & Two programs emphasize inverted skills and conditioning for the planche.

8 Weeks of Programming
Creates Full-Body Strength & Stability
Programming Designed for Continual Progress
Develop Straight-Arm Strength
Gain Balance & Control

Build strength and control for pressing and inverted skills.

Jessica Ferringer

Pittsburgh, PA, United States

The results I've experienced have been nothing short of amazing. Not only have I achieved my initial goal of building muscle and getting stronger, I've seen the benefits flow through to all areas of my life. It improved the mind-muscle connection which has helped me in any other workout I have done since.

Wojciech Kozon

Vienna, Austria

I've been doing CrossFit and Functional Training for the last 3 years, and since discovering GMB and going through Parallettes One and Rings One, I've been better and stronger in CrossFit and in general!

Stefan Christ

Tettnang, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

I had no clear objective when starting P1 - I just wanted to do cool things on the p-bars. I am astonished that my flow looks relatively fluid and I can feel strong in every position.

I was a little skeptical about some of the beginning movements in P1, as it just seemed to me that it would be too easy at first; like it wouldn't pose enough of a challenge. However, I found the movements surprisingly difficult when I actually slowed down, and completely concentrated on the form of the movement. It's surprising how difficult a simple exercise becomes when it's slowed down with good form, as opposed to fast and sloppy!

Brian Robey

Redlands, CA, United States

The most specific improvement I have noticed has been in my l-sit. I worked on it several months before starting P1, but since starting the program I've noticed a big improvement in my technique. My core and legs are tighter and I'm able to hold a longer and "prettier" l-sit.

I've spent about 2 years permanently injured, with nerve damage in my elbows and problems with my rotator cuff among the many. All the strength work within all the gymnastic strength training I've followed is fixing all my issues, and P2 has been beneficial for me. Slowly, but surely, I'm getting stronger.

Josh Hillis

Author and Fat Loss Coach
Denver, CO, United States

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.

Lorenzo Casertano

Physical Therapist
New York, NY, United States

I love Parallettes Two! It is translating really well into my handstand practice and lots of other skill moves I want to achieve, such as my bent arm strength, my press to handstand, my muscle-ups, and my back levers. My planche is getting better too!

Alissa Carpio

Charlotte, NC, United States

There are very few fitness competition coaches around any more, so your program (Parallettes One) was like a Christmas gift when I stumbled upon it! The best part is the structured approach and detailed training program outline. I now have a definite plan and time length to follow, and I love that!

More Than Just Push-Ups

Don’t fall into the trap of thinking P-bars are just good for pressing. They’re great for that, but there’s no better tool for hand balance and planche development.

Parallettes Curriculum Details

Parallettes One

Essential Pressing Strength Development

Floor Curriculum

Where most programs focus on getting stronger, our Floor series develops the movement skills and control you need to translate that strength to athletic movement in any sport.

Includes 4 Program Phases Over 14 Weeks
Build Your Strength, Balance, and Flexibility
Consistent Skill Development
Learn Handstands, Somersaults, Kips, and More
Accessible To Any Fitness Level

Learn to perform with grace, power, and control.

Bianca Fontana

Teacher
Australia

F1 has helped me with my balance, and my overall ability to complete the skills has improved. I love the way F1 trains you, so much better than lifting weights which is sooo boring and unfulfilling.

Ivan Ljubicic

Croatia

The F1 training helped me to intelligently address my weaknesses (lack of certain flexibility, and lack of conditioning, especially wrists) and improve in those areas in a safe and gradual way. For example, crow/crane hold, and front/back scale.

Amy Wolff

North Carolina, United States

If you’re on the fence about doing Floor One, ask yourself how well you know yourself. If you have a physical challenge and you put yourself up against it, F1 is a great start to do that because it asks you to do what you might think is very simple.

Ivan Ljubicic

Croatia

Joe Shadwick

Wellington, New Zealand

When I found GMB, I was concerned that a guy of my size would never be able to hold my own weight or balance for long in that position. Since starting Floor One, I am most excited to see how my handstands have improved. Today I can hold a handstand for almost a full minute and can balance off the wall for maybe ten seconds.

Tim Martin

This program has done nothing short of opening my eyes to a whole new way of training. The one thing that amazed me the most was how effective the freestanding leg switch exercise was at helping me fast track my progress towards a freestanding handstand.

Build Your Skill Base

From basic tumbling and handbalancing to proper technique for aerial tricks, Floor One & Two build athletic agility and skill for dynamic sports.

Floor Curriculum Details

Floor One

Essential Bodyweight Skill Development

Rings Curriculum

Gymnastic rings build upper-body strength and control like nothing on the planet. Learn to use them properly with proven progressions and a program designed for adults with no gymnastic background.

Build Solid Strength & Control on Rings
Learn to Perform Strict, Controlled Muscle-Ups
Develop Strong and Healthy Joints and Ligaments
Build Reserves of Strength for Any Task
Perfect Introduction to Gymnastic Ring Training

Rings One is a complete guide to strength and skill with Gymnastic rings.

I had spent the last year focused on pure strength development (barbells) and wanted to work on more functional strength this year, so I did Rings One. What surprised me was just how much weightlifting strength doesn't necessarily transfer over. Very humbling.

Sone Sonesson

Sweden

I'm enjoying the rewards of managing all the exercises in Rings One a little better every time. I'm most excited about my progress, from shaking heavily when doing top position in the beginning to where I am now.

The first time I did a front kip to top position, I was psyched. Ditto the front roll. Goals which are challenging but reachable are incredibly motivating. The realistic approach of GMB, which allowed me to be deal with slow weeks and occasional setbacks, plus included warm-ups and stretching, really contributed to my progress.

Roy Ibbotson

Since following Rings One, my grip endurance has increased due to working beneath the rings and my press/straight arm strength has improved massively due to the work above the rings. The reason I started following the program was to help improve my conditioning for Bouldering/rock climbing and it complements my climbing fantastically.

My first big goal back when I started Rings One was the clean muscle-up without kipping, and I got that. The programs were clearly structured and logical, the explanations were excellent, the progression of each exercise shown in an outstanding way - I loved it!

Ryan Russell

Arkansas, United States

This program seems perfect for me to meet those needs like nothing I've done before. I'm looking forward to getting these rings up in the air more so I can continue progressing. I'm gonna have to get creative. Additionally, I was able to take my workout with me by hanging rings from a nearby tree when we went to the beach on vacation.

I had never fully realized what I wanted or could achieve from working out, until I discovered Calisthenics and Rings 1. It completely changed my understanding of strength and made me realize the importance of motor control and movement complexity for performing better in every day life and also in recreational sports like skiing, surfing, climbing and so on.

Patrick Hof

Aachen, Germany

I love my rings! The focus on being as healthy as possible so my cancer doesn't stand a chance is still there, but the motivation has shifted more to the mastery of new skills, because it's so much fun. For the rings, my current goal is a slow, strict muscle-up.

When I started strength training 7.5 years ago, I saw a muscle-up and I distinctly remember thinking "I'll never be able to do that," but by Phase 3 of R1, I was able to do it. This meant soooo much to me after a very long injury, and it just shows that you should never quit, because there's always something you can work on.

Get Swinging!

Rings are great fun and build incredible strength, but they can be intimidating. We’ve got you covered with clear instruction and a solid program.

Rings Curriculum Details

Rings One

Gymnastic Rings Basic Training

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It can be tough to figure out which program is the best fit, especially if you’re new to GMB. We made this 30-second quiz help you choose the right one: