I love to share successes of those who put into practice what I teach. This video from Greg is a perfect example. I did it! My first ring muscle up after 2&1/2 years. I first saw a picture many years ago of someone who had done a bar muscle up, …
Improving Shoulder Flexibility and Mobility
If you’re looking to improve your shoulder flexibility and mobility check out these two videos from Gold Medal Bodies. The first one is focused on building the flexibility in the shoulders especially for handstands. Handstands can be one of the most difficult positions for the shoulders, especially a straight style …
Parallettes Two
My friends at GMB have just released their newest training program. This covers more advanced training and skills using the parallettes. I know many of you have experienced their great videos before… And if you haven’t what are you waiting for? Even if you don’t have parallettes (which are easy …
Straight Arm Strength
If you’re into hand balancing you MUST build strength in a way that is not done with weight lifting, or almost any other form of exercise. That is Straight Arm Strength. I’ve been working a lot on this exact thing lately. My friends at Gold Medal Bodies just put up …
Focused Flexibility Review
In the last post on Acrobatic Stretching we talked about how important flexibility is to your training. If your flexibility is holding you back, I’ve found a new resource that will allow you to break through those blocks you’ve been having. This program was very similar to the ideas I …
Parallette Training without Parallettes?
In the past three posts you’ve got tons of ideas on training you can do with parallettes. But what if you don’t have a pair of parallettes to train with? One, you can easily make your own pair for cheap. Two, you can replicate the same training with a variety …
Parallette presses and holds
Ryan Hurst from Gold Medal Bodies is here to show you how to move forward with your parallette training. Click here for Part 1 and Part 2. This is the third in a three part series. By now, you should have developed some foundation strength in the basic parallette press …
Parallette Training Foundation for Full-Body Power
Ryan Hurst from Gold Medal Bodies is here to show you how to build a training foundation with parallettes. This is the first of a three part series. If you’ve ever seen a gymnast perform skills like the planche, you’ve probably wished you could too. Maybe you even got right …