I’m was reading ‘No Limits’ a book by Michael Phelps last night. I’m not all that far into it but one thing is abundantly clear. He never would have gotten to where he is without his coach. Sure there is a lot else that went into his winning eight gold …
Straightening Handstand, Wrist Strength & More
Diving into a few questions and comments today. “In the hand stand, and especially in the bridge, the main persisting difficulty is an inherent wrist weakness. In fact I observe steady improvement in back and shoulder flexibility, but the wrist is always setting me back!” Joseph I know your pain …
Building Vital Power
What is vital power? Bernarr MacFadden, the father of physical culture, explained it as such: “Vital power is more than the capacity to pursue your work with comfort! It is more than the power of endurance! It is, as has been said, life itself! It is the force that is …
Achieve Your Training Goals Teleseminar
I’ve been training for many years now. Gone through tons of different programs using a multitude of tools. From dinosaur training to kettlebells, combat conditioning to barbells, gymnastics to feats of strength and many more. I’ve gotten stronger along the way and I like to think I’ve also learned a …
Forget Resolutions
The New Year is well upon us. But I’m not here to talk about resolutions. To me the idea of New Year’s resolutions are a joke because of all the baggage they hold. Despite the root term of being ‘resolute’ they are anything but. And if you can make it …
Your Progress in 2008
We’re coming up on the end of the year. The question you have to ask yourself is: Are you happy with the progress you’ve made this year? Its always a good time to look back and see how far you’ve come. What your major accomplishments of the year were. I’ll …
Focusing on One Skill
Recently, I haven’t had a lot of time to devote to hand balancing. What with family visiting, traveling around and all that entails. So I had to cut down on the time I practiced hand balancing. Especially when you factor in that hand balancing is just one aspect of training …
Strength and Size in Strongmen Today and Before
Received an excellent couple of questions the other day about size and strength, specifically of the old-time strongmen. My most concern is that I’d like to know how somebody could be a strongman without being as huge as nowadays’ strongmen. What did the old-time strongmen did to be so strong …
Challenge Workouts
The majority of the time you should be content to make small jumps improving in your workouts. Great progress over time is made by these small steps. But once every so often its great to challenge yourself. Doing a workout that is longer and tougher than the normal fare. Over …
Strength, Disrespect and Fear
Going to answer a few more questions today. “I can do a handstand for about 15 seconds now and I can also walk on my hands a bit thanks to this website but when I try to press into a handstand my arms die on me. is they any good …
Free Movement and Complete Control
Free to move and in control. Isn’t that what hand balancing and all acrobatics is all about? Being able to move your body in any which way and having complete control. Capable of hopping onto your hands and shifting one way or another, posting on a single hand then coming …
Tweaking Your Training Plans
There are often regular breaks in your routine which should be used to change up how you train. One example is travel for any length of time. With certainty any travel is going to disrupt any plan of training you have. You may not have the right equipment to do …
Training Simplified
Have you heard of Occam’s Razor? It’s often quoted as “All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best.” Though this was originally a scientific principle it applies to your training just as well. There’s a time and place to do complex exercises and some crazy feats of …
Underbalancing, Learning By Yourself, and Ab Training
Going to answer more questions today. Before I begin let me once again advise that when you send in your questions to to give details and don’t just ask a broad question like ‘how do I do a handstand?’ Before you ask anything look around the site, especially the articles …
10 Ways to Get Motivated to Train
Happy Labor Day! We’re into the last third of the year. Almost the home stretch. Are you on pace to accomplish your training goals for the year? Personally I almost skipped my workout today. But the little gremlin in my mind telling me to do so was defeated and I …