I just wrote a great article for my friend Ben on handstand pushup progressions. If you want to learn the easiest way, yet probably the most effective, to make progress in handstand pushups then be sure to read it. Building Animalistic Strength With Handstand Pushups Of course if you want …
Handstand Shrugs
Handstand shrugs are a seldom used exercise yet they can be quite important. Ask any professional hand balancer, or just watch them at work, and you’ll see how much their shoulders are shrugged up towards their ears. (Here is an example of Cai Yong.) This is necessary to get the …
Correct Way to do a Pushup
Here is a video about the correct way to do a pushup. Overall it’s pretty good, but I would a couple things. This is why you can’t just rely on Youtube University. You can tell from her shoulders that she can definitely crank out a few pushups herself. I wouldn’t …
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 …
Strength and Skill
The more strength and skill you have the better you’ll be in hand balancing and acrobatics. You may be saying ‘DUH’ but this works on multiple levels. Obviously you’ll require more strength in order to do high strength movements like the planche, iron cross and more. Among various moves some …
Gaining Skills at Older Age
I got this in just a couple days ago from Steve. Thank you. I am a 60–almost 61–year old man, 6’1″, about 185 lbs. I have lifted off and on since age 15, trying to stay in shape. During my college years I did a small amount of handstands. I …
Handstand Pushup Plateau
Another question came in recently regarding breaking through handstand pushup plateaus. I’m now able to balance about 15 seconds at best, but I do see progress. Focusing my weight on that first row of knuckles helps a lot. I also started doing more forearm stands as a balancing drill which …
Secrets of the Handstand Review
Since releasing the Secrets of the Handstand Quick Start video for free on the site last week there has been more traffic here, more people signing up and lots of emails of thanks. Thanks everyone for spreading it around. Got this report from Dan who purchased the Secrets of the …
Handstand Endurance
In my last post on juggling I talked about the differences between learning most skills and that of hand balancing. The biggest difference being that hand balancing takes a lot of strength and endurance. People talk about having the proper position which places the stress along the structure of the …
Building Skills
Yesterday I was doing a garage sale. Always nice to clear out stuff you don’t need. It was a fairly busy day but there were points in time when no customers were around. Instead of just fiddling around on my iphone (alright I did a bit of that too) I …
Handstand Pushup Article
I’ve added a new article to the site: How to do Handstand Pushups This just covers the basics of the movement against the wall for anyone looking to get started. More articles and advanced stuff coming later. And would you believe I don’t have a video of myself cranking out …
Benefits of the Basics
I got an email the other day from a student who had purchased the Hand Balancing Mastery Course. I’ve started dreaming about holding handstands, which for me is good sign that I’ll eventually get it, LOL! I teach a Crossfit-style strength and conditioning class at a Krav Maga school in …
Convict Conditioning Routine
I received this question the other day after my post on Convict Conditioning, and since it was well thought out I’m going to give an in depth answer. Hey Logan, You obviously have far more experience than me and I don’t even compare to you in terms of strength/conditioning. You’ve …
Convict Conditioning
Today I want to talk about two different sorts of Convict Conditioning and which one you might want to try. I know a guy who recently got out of prison after spending just a couple months inside. We got on the subject of working out while he was there and …
How to Handstand Longer
Today’s question addresses how to build a longer handstand. “Is it possible to add 2 seconds to my hand balancing every week? If it is how long would I have to practise for weekly?” Lucy I think this is a great way to approach holding a handstand longer. Set a …