Have you ever been training on a certain routine when for one reason or another, whether you get board, read a new training book, or whatever, you drop your routine for a completely new one. STOP DOING THAT! You see the secret to getting truly strong is… Sticking to the …
Handstand Visualization
You may have heard me mention it before. I’m talking about visualization and how it can help you do better in hand balancing and acrobatics. There’s a new article on the site telling my story of how I reached my first ever 30 second handstand. How Visualizing Can Help Your …
The Value of Unilateral Training
Just recently I moved into a new house. Probably the thing that excites me most is the gym setup we’ll soon have. The garage is being taken over to make music but the back yard is wide open and with a little work it’ll be quite impressive. I’ll be taking …
How to Kick-up into a Wall Handstand
It’s important to have a strong handstand against the wall before you ever try balancing yourself in the open. And in order to train that you have to be able to get into the handstand. This video shows you the easiest way to kick-up against the wall. How to Kick …
How to Get Started in Card Tearing
One common question I get when people see me doing feats of strength like tearing a phonebook or deck of cards in half is how do you get started? When people get exposed to these feats enough, and have been training regularly, they figure they might as well give it …
What’s Stopping Your Handstands?
Today’s message is just for beginners. That is people still working on holding the regular freestanding handstand. If that’s you then keep reading. I’d say two thirds of the people that come to my website are just getting started and trying to learn the handstand. Even though it’s the basic …
Handstand Hand Isometrics
It’s been awhile since I’ve put up a full article on the site. Well, there’s a new one up there now. This one shows you an exercise to build stronger wrists specifically to help you balance better. Handstand Hand Isometrics Give it a try and let me know how it …
The Trampoline Handbook Available Now
The new Trampoline Handbook is available now. You can skip right ahead and get it now. Or read below to get the back story… —– I’m human. And because of that I make mistakes. But I like to think I quickly learn and fix them. However sometimes that’s not the …
Pullups, Chinnups & Rope Climbing
Just an update today. There’s two new Feats of Strength up on the site. Pullups & Chinning These moves have always been some of my favorites. I always include some from of pullups or chinnups in my workouts. This page includes some feats very few will work up to. Rope …
Will Wall Handstands Help Balance? How Often to Train HSPU’s?
I have some cool things in the work for this month. One of them is nearing completion. More on that subject later. In the meantime let’s tackle a few more questions that have been sent in. First off from Carol. “If I keep practicing kicking up to a handstand against …
Rolling a Dumbbell Across the Gym?!?
If you missed my last story about one of the exercises I saw in a commercial gym you can read about it in the post below. But this one blow even that away. My friend ended up visiting that same gym the next day. And this is what he saw. …
Straight Arm Pressing Tips
Having safely returned from my trip its time to get back into regular emails to help you go further in your hand balancing and acrobatics. I received a number of excellent questions while I was gone so I figured I’d start there. “How should your hands look when there on …
Productive Exercises in Canada
I’m back in action after a several week hiatus. In case, you’re wondering the tour was hugely successful and a lot of fun the entire time. Perhaps I’ll tell you more about that later but right now I gotta tell you about a visit to a gym I had in …
Making Road Workouts Work
I’m about to hit the road for three weeks with my friends’ band Archer as they start up their first big tour. If you enjoy hard rock I suggest you check them out at https://www.archernation.com But that’s not the main thing I want to talk to you about today. Instead …
Progressing through Plateaus
Last night I held a closed doors tele-seminar for my Strength Mastermind members. The topic of the call was progression. When you understand progression and how it works your workouts will never be just an act of spinning your wheels. You will always be moving forward. Combining the concepts of …