How you place your feet when doing bridging exercises will change up the difficulty of the exercise. This is especially important when you’re working on harder variations. If you are not as flexible as you’d like to be, the easiest position is to get your heels up and just use …
How To Do A Muscle Up
If you are looking for new upper extremity, bodyweight movements to incorporate into your training then consider none other than the muscle up. The muscle up is a relatively basic bodyweight movement that incorporates both a pushing and a pulling action of the upper extremity all into one movement. Also, …
PR Report 8-31-13
Overall it was a very good week. I finished up with the PCC the past weekend. As mentioned last week I hit my best ever full human flag which is pictured below. With a little more work on this (as I haven’t been training it at all) I should have …
Podcast: Adrienne Harvey
Listen to the first female interview on the Legendary Strength podcast with Adrienne Harvey. I first had the pleasure of meeting Adrienne when she attended the 2nd Super Human Training Workshop. [display_podcast] How to tackle the Iron Maiden or Beast Challenge The Human Flag for Stronger Presses? Athletes are born …
PR Report 8-24-13
Once again I’m back on the road. Only got two workouts done at home. Here’s what I did in that time: Working more on partials I did a 495 lb. three quarter deadlift for a triple. Also been playing around with a squat style extended deadlift to see if I …
Bodyweight Exercises for Size
Can bodyweight exercises really put on quality size? The answer is yes and no. Yes, you can do bodyweight exercises for size but there are still other things that are more important to consider. [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8xxaN_hxtg] I have referenced this video before, but I’m referring to it again because it makes …
How to Increase Stamina
How to increase stamina or conditioning? People rarely talk about it, but stamina for what you’re doing is quite specific. Not so long ago I managed to work my way up to 301 kettlebell snatches in ten minutes, which required incredible conditioning. Even though my endurance for that event was …
Improper Alignment Training
… And so here I go contradicting myself. Lately I have been preaching to everyone, especially through my articles, the importance of maintaining good posture through exercise and movement in order to prevent us from continuously adding fuel to the fire when it comes to muscular imbalances. And so I …
Your Strength Is Limited By These 3 Things…
Guest Article by Tyler Bramlett Co-Creator Of Bodyweight Flow As you already know, building strength is much more then just adding size to your body. Strength can be built through several different ways including but not limited to; maximizing your nervous system, disinhibiting your sensory receptors, increasing tendon and ligament …
More Deadlift and Chinnup PR’s
As I mentioned earlier I feel like my progress is accelerating. Here are two more big PR’s for me that happened back to back. The first is a partial Jefferson deadlift. Working at about a 3/4 range of motion this is a fairly powerful position. I know I could have …
Podcast: Questions and Answers
I take on many of the questions I receive on a daily basis and answer them in this podcast. [display_podcast] Want to get bigger, stronger, more agile and look better? Here’s what to do first… Two ways to deal with stubborn fat What to do about the voice that says …
Bodyweight Isometric Exercises
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rra4W3GKD8k&w=560&h=315] It’s videos like the one shown above that goes through a circuit of bodyweight isometric exercises that get me really excited! Why? It goes to show you that we do not need to lock ourselves up in a dark and depressing gym like a little rat (or a big …
Hanging Core Exercises
Do you ever get fed up with doing isolating core exercises while lying on the ground? If you’re someone like me you most definitely do. A great alternative to lying on the ground would be to instead do hanging core exercises. The following video displays a couple of hanging core …
Bodyweight Training with Odd Objects
Just published a new article over at the Progressive Calisthenics blog. This one is all about how you can take the concept of odd objects and apply it to bodyweight training. Odd Object Training with Bodyweight?
Secrets of the Handstand Success
I just received this email from Chris Wooler ***** Back in May I decided I wanted to be able to do a handstand. The idea actually came from reading ‘Deceptive Strength’ and one of the exercises listed was a handstand. Now I had no prior experience on hand balancing or …