Just finished up at the RKC yesterday. And what a time it was! Here’s a video with a few shots from the workouts as well as myself playing around during breaks. I even hit a new PR at 88 lbs. with the one leg squat. [youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vLKV9KY5zk] The more I go …
How to Really Learn Anything
Today starts the Russian Kettlebell Certification in San Jose, California. This will be my third time as an Assistant Instructor at the course and I’m excited as ever. It’s not just that I get to see some people I haven’t seen in awhile and am surrounded by a bunch of …
Hand Placement in Handstands
Here’s an interesting question. “I can only hold a handstand for about five seconds, with all fingers spread out, but when I bend in my right index finger I can hold for 15 seconds on up. What should I do?” Matthew Romero If you can hold it longer with your …
Human Link, Finger Lifting & Muscle Out
Just a quick note today to let you there are three new feats of strength up on the site. Go check ‘em out. The Muscle Out is a classic challenge when it comes to feats of strength. You take a weight and hold it out at arms length either to …
Handstands When Your Wrists Hurt
A common problem many beginners have with handstands is that their wrists can’t take it. I know the feeling. From a football injury back in high school my right wrist has never been the same. Its less flexible and even hurts when too much pressure is put on it in …
Old Time Strongman and How They Trained
I received a great question the other day and figured you’d like to hear the answer as well. Logan, I’ve been researching and looking through everything I can find on Old Time Strongmen (Sandow, Saxon, etc) and I haven’t found this information yet. How did they train all these attributes? …
More Handstand Q&A
Gonna dip into the mailbag today and answer a couple questions. —— I had a question that relate to both my bridging, and hand balancing. When I do either, the blood rushes to my head very soon, not letting me hold either very long. Is this normal? Will it go …
Right Training Tools for the Job
I’ve received many questions about various feats of strength. Mainly what is the best way to get good at doing them? The answer is of course to work on the feat itself. There are other exercises that can build your strength and transfer over but nothing takes the place of …
Sig Klein Tribute
Video of Sig Klein Sig Klein has to be one of my favorites of the old time strongman. He was just such a perfectly developed athlete. And he did it all from weightlifting, various feats of strength, to muscle control and more. Not the least of which were his hand …
Why a Training Plan is so Important
In my last email I talked about how structuring your workouts can make a big difference in how you progress. Today, I want to talk about why having that structure there in the first place is a huge thing. You may have heard this analogy before. If you lived in …
Videotape Your Handstands and Acrobatics
“Whoa, that’s what I’m doing? No wonder I‘m not pulling it off” It wasn’t the first time I said that phrase and it wouldn’t be the last. Back in gymnastics I liked to bring in a digital camera to take video of myself performing moves. I’d leap upwards to do …
Structuring Your Workouts For Maximum Results
How you structure your workouts is vitally important to your success. I talking sets, reps, exercises, and workouts from one day to the next. There are many ways to do it and almost all of them will work to some degree, but depending on what you’re going for, certain options …
Injury-Proofing Your Ankles
A subscriber wrote in after the release of the Parkour Tutorial DVD with a warning. Thanks again Adam for bringing it to my attention. Tricking, Parkour, even gymnastics can be rough on the ankles. Sprains, strains, and broken ankles are unfortunately not that uncommon. In order to avoid this you …
Odd Object Lifting and Two Hands Anyhow
Added two new feats of strength to the site. They are practiced widely these days but if you want some true strength you’ll have to give them a try at one point or another. Check them out. Odd Object Lifting Two Hands Anyhow In strength, Logan Christopher P.S. And just …
Da Vinci on Hand Balancing
“Study the science of art and the art of science.” -Leonardo da Vinci Hand balancing is an art. Hand balancing is a science. Which do you practice? It is very helpful do break down what needs to be done with the handstand to make it as easy as possible for …