Seeing as bodyweight and isometrics are always popular subjects to my readers, this question from Charles covers both… Recently saw you doing some 1-arm chin-up isometric holds which are very difficult but awesome for building arm and back strength. Was wondering if you know of any other powerful bodyweight isometric …
Use of Full Body Tension?
If you’ve been in the strength world for awhile you’ve likely heard about “Full Body Tension”. And on that note I received a great question the other day from Sol. Hi Logan, I read a lot of your Legendary Strength posts about muscle control the other day. I just purchased …
Advanced Planche Skills
Is your planche already really good? If so, then try these very advanced variations. This is acrobat Ivan Zubkevych and here’s what you’ll find in this video. Tilting Planche Swimming Planche (that’s what it reminded me of when the legs are moving) Pressing Up and Down from Handstand to Planche …
Reverse Planche
The reverse planche is not nearly as popular as the planche, though it use to be more so than it is today. This has also been called a hollowback, but that may be confusing with the hollow position from gymnastics. In this video you can see Peto Pavelka go into …
Walking Planche
Walking on your hands isn’t too difficult to do. Doing a planche is. But when you combine the two, and do a Walking Planche, you really have something spectacular. In this video you can watch acrobat Maxim Ivanov do just that. Just thinking about doing this skill makes my shoulders …
Tuck Handstand
Here is a new handstand exercise that I’ve been playing with lately – the tuck handstand. What is this move? First you get up into a handstand then you get into a tuck position while keeping the arms straight. This can be done from a curved handstand or a flat …
Fingertip Planche
This came into today and I thought it was worth sharing. Hey logan i was just able to check out the amazing feat video and i have to say thanks for sharing that with all of us, i love how the monks train and the one and two finger zen …
Which Course To Get?
All I can say is WOW! The demand for the Hand Balancing Mastery Course is overwhelming. That’s entirely understandable when you see the systematic approach Prof. Orlick takes in his books and all the added bonuses you can get like the interviews and DVD’s. For all of you who ordered …
Advanced Progression
Here’s a question from Matthew on the difficulties and progression of advanced hand balancing skills. “What would say is the difficulty of a planche vs a handstand, one handed handstand, 2 man planche, how should I be progressing if I am fairly competent in all of these skills?” Each skill …
Planche and Hand Position
A few comments were raised about the hand position in Rafael Guerrero’s planche in a previous post. Why was he up on the fingertips? Is this necessary to do a planche in good form? Unless you have hyper-flexible wrists you won’t be able to do a planche with the fingers …
Correcting Bad Handstand Habits
First off thanks to everyone who took the time to fill out the short survey. I appreciate you spending your time to help me out even it its just a couple minutes. I’ll be sharing what everyone said a little later on but today I thought I’d tackle a couple …
The True Planche
An older hand balancer recently sent me a CD full of pictures of himself and others hand balancing. There are some amazing pictures and I thought I’d start off with one of the best. And there will be many more coming posted up here. Without further adieu meet Rafael Guerrero. …
One Arm Muscle Up to One Arm Handstand
This is from circus acrobat Yury Tikhonovich. Yes, it involves a lot of momentum but this is one of the most impressive feats I have ever seen. A one arm muscle up into a one arm half-planche into the one arm handstand. Isn’t it amazing what people can do these …
Tuck Planche Training
“Hey, I’ve been working on my planche and I went from the frogstand to the tuck planche and I’m kinda stuck there, so anything you got to help would be appreciated.” Mike Without seeing a picture or video I can’t tell exactly how your tuck planche is looking. But most …
Handstands When Your Wrists Hurt
A common problem many beginners have with handstands is that their wrists can’t take it. I know the feeling. From a football injury back in high school my right wrist has never been the same. Its less flexible and even hurts when too much pressure is put on it in …
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