If you’re looking to improve your shoulder flexibility and mobility check out these two videos from Gold Medal Bodies. The first one is focused on building the flexibility in the shoulders especially for handstands. Handstands can be one of the most difficult positions for the shoulders, especially a straight style …
Tour of My Gym
I’ve been asked to give a tour of my gym, so I decided to create this video and share it with you. My gym is actually located in a two-car garage, but since the gym takes all the space, no cars go in here. Apart from various bodyweight training and …
PR Report 11-9-13
Making good progress on a number of fronts. I’ve been doing front squats in most of my workouts. In the past week I did all of the following. 135 x 20 185 x 8 235 x 3 In addition, my one arm chin-up work is getting stronger. I did a …
Adding Reps to One Arm Chins
As many of you have seen, and even done yourself, when someone signs up for my free gifts on this site I ask them to send me their most burning question. The other day I got one from someone that was stronger than me at this particular exercise, doing one …
PR Report 10-12-13
Not a whole lot of action this week, as I was busy filming for the new Strengthen Your Structure course, which will be coming as part of the new Strength Health Mind Power Inner Circle. (If you’ve never filmed exercise videos before it can be quite intensive even just demonstrating …
How to Combine Weights and Bodyweight Training
This is a common question among trainees that isn’t answered real well in a lot of places. But its not difficult if you understand a few critical things. When you do effectively combining weights and bodyweight is easy to do. There are some people that only lift weights. And there …
Amazing 40 Handstand Presses
Professional acrobat Yuval Ayalon performs an amazing mixed set of 40 different handstand presses. 10 each of the following: Stalder Presses Handstand Pushups Pike Presses Straddle Presses To do just one of any of these moves is beyond most people. To string them together in this manner is amazing. What …
Bodyweight Exercises for Shoulders
If your workout consists of mostly bodyweight exercises and your shoulders are lagging behind, or you’re just looking to increase more size to them, then this article might be of use to you. The shoulders lag behind for a lot of people, but fortunately changing hand positioning and load will …
Progression Tips for Handstand Push-ups
A new article on handstand push-ups progression and my “Aha” moment has been put on Dragon Door blog. Handstand Push-ups and My “Aha” Moment When I got started with bodyweight training my goal was to be able to do a handstand push-up against the wall. My upper body strength had …
Should I do Curved or Straight Handstands?
Some time ago I received a question from a guy who was practicing a straight handstand. He saw a customer of mine, who trained using my Secrets of the Handstand Quick start Guide, holding a handstand for 8-10 seconds, whereas he was able only to hold it for a couple …
Full Standing Rollout (PR Report 9-21-13)
In the past I’ve talked about how the first time you achieve something it is often times very ugly. Your form is far from perfect but that’s okay. As long as it won’t hurt you, and there is a difference between ugly form in achieving something and ugly form that …
Podcast: Progression and Movement Quality with Tyler
My good friend Tyler Bramlett joins me once again as we discuss progression and movement quality. [display_podcast] How so many people get Progression Wrong and How You Can Get It Right Using Form as a Method of Progression What is Movement Quality all about? The Failure of so many programs …
PR Report 9-7-13
I hit a big sub-goal of mine this week with an 806 lb. wrestler’s bridge. My previous best was somewhere around 625 lbs. Just a couple weeks ago I hit a new PR in the overhead only portion as seen here. With the help of my friend Tyler I was …
Hard Bodyweight Exercises
Anyone who has been training long enough has felt it, that familiar stagnation that happens when your routine starts to get a tad bit too easy. If you’re mostly doing bodyweight movements, you might feel this a lot sooner than your freeweight compadres. Maybe you’re just looking for an extra …
How to Start Working Out
Most people who visit my site on a regular basis are fit men (though a decent portion are the ladies too) looking to take their training to the next level. For this reason, I usually cover more advanced stuff which is not always suitable for someone who just needs to …