Here’s a fairly easy hand balancing skill you can practice. Its called the Lsit to Shoulder Stand. To start with I recommend two solid platforms to keep your hands on that are raised from the ground. Big kettlebells work great for this too. Start in an L position then tuck …
Ryan Lochte Strongman Training
I’ve been watching as much of the Olympics as I can recently, which isn’t too much as I’m not use to sitting in front of the TV. One thing I saw recently worth noting was Ryan Lochte’s strongman training. Lochte is now a Gold medalist in swimming, and by the …
Offset Press Handstand
Recently I covered the variation known as the shoulder stand, that’s different from the common shoulder stand. This move builds on top of that. Instead of both hands flat one is raised higher then the other. You can hold this position. Or you can then do an offset press up …
Book Club: Amazing Samson by Alexander Zass
Introducing the Physical Culture Book Club. As a subscriber on Legendary Strength you can join for free. For the month of August we’ll be reading The Amazing Samson by Alexander Zass. Or want to get all 12 books for this year in one package right now? You can get additional …
Shoulder Stand
The shoulder stand is a name for a movement pictured below. However it’s also the name for the bottom of a press position as you’ll learn in this video here. This is a great move for several purposes. 1. Strengthens the arms and shoulders. You’re holding a position that can …
July’s Book Club Article
Just finished putting up the new article on Julys’s Physical Culture Book Club selection. This is for Muscle Building by Earle Liederman. Also in case you missed it be sure to check out the previous month’s book by Liederman, Secrets of Strength.
Warrior Warmup Review
I received some questions about Tyler’s Warrior Warmup, as did Tyler himself as to what it looked like. So he put together this short video that gives you an idea. Get Warrior Warmup here. I figured I’d also take a little time to give a warrior warmup review. Who is …
Work on Straight Handstands
I’m going to try showing more of my regular practice up here on the blog. One of the biggest focuses lately has been straight handstands. Instead of kicking up, there is a jump up through a tucked position to the handstand. As you can see my body still is curved, …
Living Life in a Handstand Part 2
This is the second in a new series that shows an average day life, except that the person gets around while in a handstand. This is from Tim “Livewire” Shieff a famous freerunner. There’s tons of walking around on the hands here, accompanied by a dog. You also have to …
Importance of Movement Progressions
This is a guest article from Tyler Bramlett from GarageWarrior.com on the Importance of Movement Progressions. ***************** It doesn’t matter whether you are a complete beginner or a seasoned athlete there is a good chance that you are already using the little know art of movement progressions. For literally hundreds …
NLP 11 – Walt Disney
It’s funny. I keep a really open mind usually when working in this type of environment. But I was skeptical if this technique would do anything for me. It’s not that I didn’t think it would work, but I thought I already had this type of thinking down, and it …
Super Herbs and Foods to Become Superhuman
This “Aha!” hit me like a ton of bricks the other week. I’ve spent most of my adult life diving deeper into health and nutrition, learning from many of the top people in the field in my search for peak performance. Just recently I decided to run an experiment on …
Rock Climbing and Handstands Combined
Yesterday you got to watch Tim “Livewire” Shieff live life in a handstand. Here’s another great video of the same man. Thanks to Dave Gillett for sharing this one with me. I think rock climbing and handstands go very well together. In one you work the pushing muscles of the …
NLP for Fitness Part 10
I think I may have uncovered a huge key for training success. It’s fairly easy to make progress in training. Even if it’s not always the most linear progress, you should be making some form on improvement at all times. But is this as far as it can go? What …
Living Life in a Handstand
This is the first in a new series that shows an average day life, except that the person gets around while in a handstand. This is from Tim “Livewire” Shieff a famous freerunner. It starts off with a forearm stand. There’s lot of walking on the hands. A bit of …