Valentin Dikul is, in my opinion, one of the greatest athletes ever to grace the earth. Here is a short biography from one of the following videos: A circus acrobat, Valentin took a bad fall and broke his back when he was seventeen. Dikul said no to the wheel-chair and painstakingly rehabilitated himself, largely with [...]
Archive | June, 2012
Handstand Walk Substitutions
If you can’t walk on your hands specifically, here are a couple exercises that are handstand walk substitutions. They require much less balance then walking out in the open, but still train the same muscles and support ability needed. #1 – Walk laterally in a handstand across a wall. Here is an example. #2 – [...]
Handstand From Sitting
The following, going to a handstand from sitting position, is an intermediate skill though it can be made easier or harder. This video shows you a good example of how you can do this move. Handstand From Sitting This is probably the easiest form to do this skill in. 1 – Start in an L-sit [...]
Book Club: Muscle Building by Earle Liederman
Introducing the Physical Culture Book Club. As a subscriber on Legendary Strength you can join for free. For the month of July we’ll be reading Muscle Building by Earle Liederman. This continues off of reading Secrets of Strength, another book by Liederman, last month. Or want to get all 12 books for this year [...]
Podcast: Going Deep Into Bodyweight Training
For this episode I discuss going deep into bodyweight training. This comes right off the heels of my Ninja Bodyweight Workshop and the Animal Flow Certification I attended with Mike Fitch. It also includes an interview with Mike Fitch. On this podcast you’ll find: The common ways people get into bodyweight training Why you may [...]
Is A Handstand Easier Than A Headstand?
Are you asking is a handstand easier than a headstand? The short answer is NO! (Although there are some exceptions.) Let me explain why. The handstand has a smaller base of support, i.e. your two hands, rather then the two hands and your head that are commonly used in the headstand. The leverage of your [...]
Treadmill Handstand Success
In a previous post we covered a bunch of handstand fails, one of which was the close to famous handstand on treadmill fail. Well when looking at that video I also came across the opposite, a treadmill handstand success. There is one big main difference I can tell in what led to failure versus success. [...]
June’s Book Club Article
Just finished putting up the new article on Junes’s Physical Culture Book Club selection. This is for Secrets of Strength by Earle Liederman. This is a phenomenal book!
Easy Hand Strength Workout
When you get into grip and hand strength you tend to buy up a bunch of crazy tools and the more the merrier. At least that has been my experience and that of many of my friends. But to build crazy grip strength you don’t need much. My friend Adam Glass is one of the [...]
Mike Fitch Interview
I just finished up the Animal Flow Certification put on by Mike Fitch of Global Bodyweight Training. Mike is a good friend of mine and I’m happy to say I lent a helping hand in getting his website and business off the ground. So to see the great success he’s had so far is amazing. [...]
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