Recently, I haven’t had a lot of time to devote to hand balancing. What with family visiting, traveling around and all that entails. So I had to cut down on the time I practiced hand balancing. Especially when you factor in that hand balancing is just one aspect of training …
Strength and Size in Strongmen Today and Before
Received an excellent couple of questions the other day about size and strength, specifically of the old-time strongmen. My most concern is that I’d like to know how somebody could be a strongman without being as huge as nowadays’ strongmen. What did the old-time strongmen did to be so strong …
Challenge Workouts
The majority of the time you should be content to make small jumps improving in your workouts. Great progress over time is made by these small steps. But once every so often its great to challenge yourself. Doing a workout that is longer and tougher than the normal fare. Over …
Walking on Your Hands Down Stairs
Some years ago when I was teaching Physical Education at the Western University Medical School I decided to see just how many steps I could conquer with practice. Therefore, twice every week after I had finished all of my classes, I took a crack at the main stairs. For a …
Dinoman Back in Action
Don’t know if you’ve heard the news but the man behind the strength training classic, Dinosaur Training, is about to release a new book. That’s right Brooks Kubik is now taking pre-orders for Legacy of Iron, which in my opinion is an awesome title. I ordered myself a copy last …
Making Handstand Presses Easier
Here’s a short clip from November’s Acrobat Accelerator. In the full issue I cover much on bent arm presses like the straddle press and frogstand press. Making Handstand Presses Easier This clip shows you how you can make the straddle press easier by adding momentum with a little hop. This …
Hair and Teeth Feats of Strength
Got a few new feats of strength up on the site. These are one’s you don’t see very often. Mostly because they’re painful and seemingly dangerous. First up is feats of strength involving the hair. This is one I’ve personally done in the past and plan to do more of …
Mixing Up your Kettlebell Training
After a long time of practicing kettlebell juggling, I wanted to switch it up. I wanted to revisit just the basic kettlebell snatch and see how far I could take it. Primarily I was interested in doing a 10 minute snatch test with multiple hand switches and seeing what kind …
New Feats of Strength
There’s a few new feats of strength up on the site. We’ve got juggling weights, of course with kettlebells but also the rarely seen barbell juggling. In addition you’ll find a page on grippers and hand balancing. Gonna be adding more over the week as well as shooting some demonstration …
Acrobatics outside Gymnastics
I received an interesting comment from Jonathan when he order a copy of The True Art and Science of Hand Balancing and Tumbling Illustrated. “Thanks a lot! I’m an ex high-level gymnast, I just stopped competing, but I’m still training really hard, just for myself, just for fun, and now, …
What Bridging can do for you
You probably saw some of the feats of done recently while in the bridge. Now I don’t think everyone should be having a sledgehammer swung at them while in a wrestler’s bridge, but its just an application of the strength I’ve built up through exercise. What everyone does need is …
Get Free Bridging Info
If you celebrated Halloween this past Friday, I hope you had a good one. Mine was certainly an interesting night. Now that its over we’re into the home stretch of 2008. Just two months left in the year. Now you can relax in all your efforts as the holidays come …
Yoga Arm Balances
Yesterday morning, I decided to do something a little different from my normal morning routine, which involves spending some time upside down. I had come across this yoga video of some fairly advanced stuff including a few yoga arm balances. So I popped it in the player and did my …
Card Tearing and Sledge Leveraging
I decided to film a bit of my workout yesterday. It was a good one, hitting some new personal records and my legs are feeling it today. Its not a good idea to really seek soreness, but sometimes when you feel it, you know you had a good workout. I …
Where to Setup the Elite Rings?
Got a question today. And if one person is asking it, many more are probably thinking it. “Hi, I am seriously considering buying a set of the gymnastic rings, the question is where can one use them?, it is nice that they are portable, but where would one hang them …