Life likes to get in the way. For the past couple weeks I’ve had family visiting. While I’ve enjoyed hanging out with them, spending all that time is taking away from other things. Add to that everything else that’s going on and training had to take a backseat…almost. Because I’ve …
One Small Change = One Big Difference
I remember one day in 2005 when I was working out in my garage in San Luis Obispo, California. I was doing a circuit combining chinnups and handstand pushups (an awesome combo, by the way). I had hit my goal number of reps and sets in the handstand pushups so …
Training Experiments
Here’s one good thing about having an established workout routine besides consistency. When you’ve been doing things the same way for a period of time it allows you to take one variable and change it up. By looking at your results now as compared to before you can find if …
How to do Hill Sprints
I woke up this morning, laced up my shoes and set out on a jog. No I wasn’t preparing to run several miles today (sorry I find that boring) but I was heading to a nearby hill. And at the hill the jog turned into an all out sprint. After …
Bad Handstand Habits, Training Frequency + More
Thanks for all the suggestions after my last message. Going to answer a number of them today. “I am just started handstands and I notice that my arms are bent it seems I have a bad habit, ideas?” You know this is something I battled with for a long time. …
Sticking to the Routine
Have you ever been training on a certain routine when for one reason or another, whether you get board, read a new training book, or whatever, you drop your routine for a completely new one. STOP DOING THAT! You see the secret to getting truly strong is… Sticking to the …
Handstand Visualization
You may have heard me mention it before. I’m talking about visualization and how it can help you do better in hand balancing and acrobatics. There’s a new article on the site telling my story of how I reached my first ever 30 second handstand. How Visualizing Can Help Your …
What’s Stopping Your Handstands?
Today’s message is just for beginners. That is people still working on holding the regular freestanding handstand. If that’s you then keep reading. I’d say two thirds of the people that come to my website are just getting started and trying to learn the handstand. Even though it’s the basic …
Will Wall Handstands Help Balance? How Often to Train HSPU’s?
I have some cool things in the work for this month. One of them is nearing completion. More on that subject later. In the meantime let’s tackle a few more questions that have been sent in. First off from Carol. “If I keep practicing kicking up to a handstand against …
Making Road Workouts Work
I’m about to hit the road for three weeks with my friends’ band Archer as they start up their first big tour. If you enjoy hard rock I suggest you check them out at https://www.archernation.com But that’s not the main thing I want to talk to you about today. Instead …
Progressing through Plateaus
Last night I held a closed doors tele-seminar for my Strength Mastermind members. The topic of the call was progression. When you understand progression and how it works your workouts will never be just an act of spinning your wheels. You will always be moving forward. Combining the concepts of …
Human Link, Finger Lifting & Muscle Out
Just a quick note today to let you there are three new feats of strength up on the site. Go check ‘em out. The Muscle Out is a classic challenge when it comes to feats of strength. You take a weight and hold it out at arms length either to …
Why a Training Plan is so Important
In my last email I talked about how structuring your workouts can make a big difference in how you progress. Today, I want to talk about why having that structure there in the first place is a huge thing. You may have heard this analogy before. If you lived in …
Structuring Your Workouts For Maximum Results
How you structure your workouts is vitally important to your success. I talking sets, reps, exercises, and workouts from one day to the next. There are many ways to do it and almost all of them will work to some degree, but depending on what you’re going for, certain options …
Da Vinci on Hand Balancing
“Study the science of art and the art of science.” -Leonardo da Vinci Hand balancing is an art. Hand balancing is a science. Which do you practice? It is very helpful do break down what needs to be done with the handstand to make it as easy as possible for …