All of fitness is based on progression. Sadly, when it’s not as simple as adding five pounds to a lift, or even a rep at a time, many people don’t know how to do it. This is the case with rolling. In this new video, I cover how to get …
Benefits of Backflips
A short and simple question came in the other day: “What are the benefits of doing back flips?” Well, if you’re just looking for ‘general fitness’ this move isn’t for you. Really it should be looked at more as an application of your fitness rather than a method to build it. …
Sig Klein
Unlike most boys in his time at the age of 15, Sig Klein wasn’t inspired by a strongman act in a circus, but after reading Physical Culture & Strength magazines back in the 1900’s. Some say he was also inspired to start training by his father, who was a strong …
Back Handspring Progress
The back handspring is one of the staple moves of gymnastics. It is a great move in and of itself, but its also used as a move to set up, and gain momentum for even bigger moves. It is also one of the tougher of the basic tumbling moves. In …
Trampolining and Tumbling
Trampolining and tumbling go together hand in hand. Trampolining involves doing all sorts of acrobatic tricks on a trampoline which provides much more height. Tumbling involves doing the same or similar moves on the floor (and with gymnastic spring floors more height can be had). I’ve mentioned this before. When …
5 Backflip Video
Progress has been real good in my gymnastics class recently. Here I wanted to show a backflip video of not one but five backflips in a series. They’re not the prettiest back tucks but they are getting increasingly easier to do. A week or two ago was the first time …
30 Day Challenge – Done
The 30 day challenge is over. Just to recap, or for those of you that aren’t aware, this involved two parts. The first was to practice my hand balancing in one form or another every single day. To be honest, in this regard I failed. I missed a couple days …
Back to Gymnastics
A few years back I regularly attended a gymnastics class. This wasn’t back when I was a kid, as is the case for 99% of gymnasts, but because I wanted to master gymnastic skills as an adult. I wanted to strength and skill that comes with it. This fell away …
Damien Walters 2010
In case you haven’t seen this video, check out one of the greatest athletes out there, Damien Walters. One thing I think you can take away from this video is that much practice is done in a gymnastics center as well as outside in ‘regular’ terrain. Build up your skills …
New Portals to Help Navigate the Site
Here’s a few of the new pages I was talking about. These will be especially helpful for new people entering the site but if you’re looking for something in a certain category you’ll be able to find it here. These pages act as a portal to other parts of the …
Handstand, Tumbling and Athleticism
Wanted to start off today’s message with a powerful comment from a subscriber. Logan, Your website is absolutely fantastic and it has helped me learn a whole new approach to physical-culture training. Over the last few months, I have incorporated handstand push-ups and some elementary handstand training into my weightlifting …
Handstand Rolls
How does tumbling and hand balancing go together? Here’s your answer in the simplest form. Combining the normal handstand with basic forward and backward rolls. Of course, there are many other ways to combine them. Here’s just two examples. Back Handspring to Hand Balance and Dive to Hand Balance, Chest …