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Stretch your upper body before challenging your arms in a handstand or flip. In addition to your muscles, stretch your joints at your wrists, ankles and feet to help prevent strains. Perform basic gymnastic skills, such as forward and backward rolls, back bends, handstands and cartwheels.
Gymnastics ring exercises are more difficult to perform because they require the opposing muscles to work just as hard as the active muscles in a three-dimensional plane. While gymnastics rings are effective for total-body conditioning, the muscle groups of the upper body are primarily used.