“Hey Logan, just a short question on the handstand, how do you get control when you go towards under balancing ( I think…I’m new to all this, hehe)? Because when I over balance I just push the floor with my fingers, but when I under balance I just have no idea …
First Official Crossfit Workout
One of my brothers who was in town is into Crossfit big time and he convinced me to go along with him to one of the local gyms this Saturday. When we got there I was asked if I had done Crossfit before. My answer was ‘sort of’. I had …
The X Balance
I love this picture. Just how the legs and arms line up to become a perfect X. With the arms spread wide balancing becomes much more difficult. You won’t have the simple back and forth balancing like in a regular handstand as your hands are pointed towards the sides. The …
Life Likes To Get In The Way
Life likes to get in the way. For the past couple weeks I’ve had family visiting. While I’ve enjoyed hanging out with them, spending all that time is taking away from other things. Add to that everything else that’s going on and training had to take a backseat…almost. Because I’ve …
Give Me Your HSPU Questions?
I’m nearing completion of the second draft of The Ultimate Guide to Handstand Pushups. And I could use your help. You see, Chapter 11 addresses all the common problems people may have when doing handstand pushups. I have a bunch of questions already from a survey I did awhile back, …
Ultimate Guide to Handstand Pushups FAQ
The Ultimate Guide to Handstand Pushups in flying of the shelves… …I guess that’s not technically true, since it’s not done yet and there are no shelves for it to fly off of. 🙂 But tons of people are taking action and ordering now. I don’t think I’ve ever had …
Pre-Sale on Ultimate Guide to Handstand Pushups
It’s been a long time in the works. And its finally ready…well, almost. I’m talking about The Ultimate Guide to Handstand Pushups. I’m making a special pre-production offer for the book. And you can get it for far less than I intended to release it for. Everything you could ever …
Broken Finger?
It was just over a week ago. I was doing single arm kettlebell presses. But I wasn’t just using one kettlebell. I was using two in one hand to increase the difficulty. Everything was going great until the last rep of my last set. I can’t tell you exactly what …
One Small Change = One Big Difference
I remember one day in 2005 when I was working out in my garage in San Luis Obispo, California. I was doing a circuit combining chinnups and handstand pushups (an awesome combo, by the way). I had hit my goal number of reps and sets in the handstand pushups so …
Chain Breaking
Its been awhile since I’ve added a new feat of strength to the site. Today that changes. Check out the new page on chain breaking.
Planche and Hand Position
A few comments were raised about the hand position in Rafael Guerrero’s planche in a previous post. Why was he up on the fingertips? Is this necessary to do a planche in good form? Unless you have hyper-flexible wrists you won’t be able to do a planche with the fingers …
Correcting Bad Handstand Habits
First off thanks to everyone who took the time to fill out the short survey. I appreciate you spending your time to help me out even it its just a couple minutes. I’ll be sharing what everyone said a little later on but today I thought I’d tackle a couple …
Training Experiments
Here’s one good thing about having an established workout routine besides consistency. When you’ve been doing things the same way for a period of time it allows you to take one variable and change it up. By looking at your results now as compared to before you can find if …
The True Planche
An older hand balancer recently sent me a CD full of pictures of himself and others hand balancing. There are some amazing pictures and I thought I’d start off with one of the best. And there will be many more coming posted up here. Without further adieu meet Rafael Guerrero. …
Increase Recovery By Cutting Volume
After you train there is one thing you have to do in order to get stronger. And that is RECOVER! Without recovery you’ll only train yourself into the ground. You don’t have to recover 100% between workouts but you do need to get most of the way there. In my …