I was “playing” at the park yesterday with my friend. Great to always have a camera on hand. Here I was able to hold my first back lever with legs straight but also together. Check off one major goal for this year! Compare this to my earlier straddle back levers. …
Arsenic Poisoning
I had lots of questions and concerns raised when I posted my hair mineral analysis test a short time back. In fact some people were scared for my life due to the super high arsenic levels. So I figured I would address those concerns a bit more here. Is arsenic …
Book Club: Maxalding by Monte Saldo
Introducing the Physical Culture Book Club. As a subscriber on Legendary Strength you can join for free. For the month of February we’ll be reading Maxalding by Monte Saldo. Or want to get all 12 books for this year in one package right now? You can get additional savings and …
Hair Mineral Analysis Test
I recently got a hair mineral analysis test done. This was just one more in the line of testing of done on my health in the past year. You can read about my blood test and my omega test. This test takes a small amount of your hair, which is …
Tuck to Advanced Tuck Planche
I received the following question from Gary regarding moving from the tuck to advanced tuck planche. Thanks for all your good advice and tutorials. Can you help me as I am trying at the moment to go from tuck planche to advanced tuck planche, (sure you have had this question …
Arthur Saxon Bent Press
Since studying Arthur Saxon I’ve been doing a number of the exercises he outlines in The Development of Physical Power and Text Book of Weight Lifting. One of them is the bent press done Arthur Saxon style. Considering he put up more weight then anyone else in the bent press …
2012 Survey
I’ve put together a short survey for you to help direct this site in the coming year. It should only take a few minutes tops to do and would greatly help me out. Click here to take the survey. Survey is closed
Jefferson Lift
The Jefferson lift, also known as the Jefferson deadlift, Jefferson squat or straddle deadlift, is not a commonly seen exercise. In fact, I would put it as something that is forgotten or unknown by 99% of the population. According to my research it was named after Strongman Charles Jefferson. But …
Bar Kip Tutorial
Over the years I’ve only done a little bit of bar work. I remember one day back in gymnastics I decided to try out the bar kip. The other people there told me how to do it and in a couple tries I had it down. This video shows you …
Amazing Hand Balancing Video
Here’s another video of an amazing hand balancer. The video starts off with 15 straddle L presses to handstand. This is followed by 10 handstand pushups, a half pirouette, then 3 more. Using rotating hand balancing stands a series of elbow lever press to handstands. Front and side splits (including …
January’s Book Club Article
Just finished putting up the new article on January’s Physical Culture Book Club selection. This is for Thomas Inch On Strength.
Frogstand Press Static Hold
Here’s a new video that gives you another tip on training the bent arm pressing, specifically the frogstand press, though this applies to them all. This involves using static holds to build strength and control your press. You must have the strength to hold each portion of the handstand press …
Study and Grow Strong?
Did you know that the more you study a sport (in our case weightlifting and exercise) the better you’ll be? According to Dr. Judd Biasiotta in his book 2001 A Sports Odyssey: “Research in the field of psychomotor development consistently revealed that the more information afforded an athlete about physiological, …
Bent Arm Pressing
Here’s a new video that gives you a tip on training the bent arm pressing, specifically the bent arm straddle press is shown. Of course this would work equally well with any other press. You can find out much more about bent arm pressing in the Hand Balancing Mastery Course. …
Book Club: Thomas Inch on Strength
Introducing the new Physical Culture Book Club. As a subscriber on Legendary Strength you can join for free. For the month of January we’ll be reading Thomas Inch on Strength. Or want to get all 12 books for this year in one package right now? You can get additional savings …