Feats of strength are not just for show. Many of them prove to be great exercises to include in your everyday workouts. Others are only really useful to impress a crowd. An application of what your training has done for you. Regardless of what you use them for or even …
Strength, Disrespect and Fear
Going to answer a few more questions today. “I can do a handstand for about 15 seconds now and I can also walk on my hands a bit thanks to this website but when I try to press into a handstand my arms die on me. is they any good …
Legendary Strength Website Updates
The Legendary Strength website has been updated. New sections and areas for you to use but this is really just the beginning. Much more to come in the following months. Let me know how you like it. Like I said this is just the framework for some great stuff coming …
Free Movement and Complete Control
Free to move and in control. Isn’t that what hand balancing and all acrobatics is all about? Being able to move your body in any which way and having complete control. Capable of hopping onto your hands and shifting one way or another, posting on a single hand then coming …
Wrestlers Bridge Concrete Break
Every once in a while you get an idea for a cool new exercise or a feat of strength. Often times you can test it out right away to see if it works or falls flat. Other times you may have to sit on it and wait. The latter case …
Joe Nordquest
Joe Nordquest was a classic strongman back in the early part of last century. He was the brother of ‘The Young Sandow’ Alfred Nordquest. Here are some of his hand balancing exploits. From Klein’s Bell in November of 1931: Joe Nordquest performed a one hand stand and with the free …
Saxon, Sandow and others want to help you
I got an idea for something that hasn’t been done before in this field and it really got me excited. You know, there’s a goldmine of strength training and physical culture information left behind by some of the strongest men that ever walked this earth. Ripe for the taking. But …
Phonebook Tearing Battle
I haven’t spent much time on phonebook tearing recently. Simply because some of my other feats need more work, like tearing decks of cards. But I’d still throw it into my workouts every once in a while. Most of the time this was at the end and I’d use a …
Straight Arm Press Tips
Time to answer some of your questions again. What with the new site and new releases I’ve let some of these pile up. Here’s two asking the same thing. “How do you do a lever up handstand. Starting feet on floor in straddle. Used to be able to do it …
Advanced Bridging
Last summer I was traveling through Europe with a group of friends. We were in San Sebastian waiting to go to Pamplona for the running of the bulls. There were several hours to kill before the train would arrive and take us off. So we decided to play some football …
Tweaking Your Training Plans
There are often regular breaks in your routine which should be used to change up how you train. One example is travel for any length of time. With certainty any travel is going to disrupt any plan of training you have. You may not have the right equipment to do …
The Biggest One Hand Handstand Tip
The one hand handstand is probably the most amazing skill in hand balancing. Sure there are more difficult ones and variations of the move but everyone can understand just how remarkable the one hand handstand is. If you can hold a one armer you’re doing something right. If you can’t …
On Handstand Pushups
One exercise that brings more people into hand balancing more than any other is the handstand pushup. Many people do them against the wall to build up strength. Sooner or later they figure how much better it’d be without using the wall for balance. Even if you have the strength …
Shoulder Weaving for Strength and Balance
This little drill has kept popping up in different places. Alright, I get the message. And I hope you do to. I didn’t really ‘read’ it the first three or four times I read The True Art and Science of Hand Balancing but the fifth was different. This exercise is …
Feats of Strength on the Road
Been traveling around the past week and a half. Nowadays it seems there is something that is always of staple of me doing that. And that is performing a few feats of strength for others. I did a few here and there, but there was one night down in Huntington …