This video showcases crazy hip and leg flexibility plus amazing hand balancing skills by Ricardo Sosa. Many people underestimate how much flexibility is needed, or at least is very helpful, in doing many hand balancing stunts. Now you don’t need to be this flexible, but improving your flexibility wouldn’t hurt …
Book Club: Farmer Burns
Introducing the Physical Culture Book Club. As a subscriber on Legendary Strength you can join for free. For the month of October we’ll be reading Lessons in Wrestling and Physical culture by Martin ‘Farmer’ Burns. Or want to get all 12 books for this year in one package right …
Handstand on Rings
The handstand on the ground is fairly tough but easily doable with a little practice. The handstand on rings is much, much tougher. Here we have Jim Bathurst on the rings working on his handstands. What makes ring handstands harder to do? You can’t use your wrists at all in …
Different Pull Up Bar Exercises
This is an article I wrote for another site that covers different pull up bar exercises. ***** The pullup is one of the classic tests of a person’s strength. Generally if a man can’t do at least one he’s regarded as weak and not a real man. And if a …
September’s Book Club Article
Wow what a read! It’s up. The newest article on September’s Physical Culture Book Club selection. This is for Goerner the Mighty.
Shipping Error Means You Save
Normally I have a facility I’ve hired to ship out the books that can be ordered on my website. Unfortunately a new shipment of books got sent to my home address instead. These are the Brand New copies of Professor Orlick’s three books. I’ve got 30 of the first one …
Bridge Acrobatics and Tree Climbing
The acrobatics start around the 2:30 mark. They do some bridging acrobatics. This is different from the gymnastic or wrestler bridging exercises, but instead involve some tumbling, hanging, and handstands on a bridge. This is followed up by some interested tree climbing. Instead of going up the base they start …
How to do a Handstand for Kids
Every kid loves to kick up some dirt and spring into a handstand. It’s a fun way to release energy and show off a little bit for their friends. It’s important to make sure that when learning how to do a handstand for kids, both the child is comfortable and …
How to do a Headstand for Beginners
A headstand is an intense display of upper body strength. To attempt it without proper preparation could lead to severe personal injury or permanent damage to your body. It is also probably not best for you to jump into something like the headstand without having any idea of what you’re …
Can We Prevent ACL Tears?
This here is a guest article from Jerry Shreck. It’s not on a fun topic, but something worthwhile to know about if you wish to go through your life and training injury free. Yes I Think We Can!! There he goes, sprinting down the field. The ball is passed to …
Parallettes Two
My friends at GMB have just released their newest training program. This covers more advanced training and skills using the parallettes. I know many of you have experienced their great videos before… And if you haven’t what are you waiting for? Even if you don’t have parallettes (which are easy …
Handstand Jumping
When it comes to jumping on your hands there are a number of different ways you can do it. Here you’ll see one form done in quite a skillful manner. This is Max Shank, an all around athletic guy with lots of kettlebell and handstand skills, plus much more. This …
How to Track Your Weight Loss Using Twitter
Here is a guest article from Anna Fox that is quite different from the regular direction of this site. One it’s about fat loss, which is not my speciality. I choose to focus on high performance and strength, though I recognize this is the primary reason for most people and …
More Advanced Kettlebell Juggling Skills
I’ve been tearing it up outside with the kettlebell lately. Doing a lot with heavy weights, with double kettlebells and improving what I can do all around. Here are two new moves I’ve come up with. Double Trouble It’s a double kettlebell juggling move with a hammer flip up to …
Stay Tough and Endure, Comrade!
This is a guest article from Matti Marzel about staying tough. It’s a long read but a good one showcasing his time in the army and how to transfer the toughness required there into training today. Even if you’ve never been in the army and don’t plan to you may …