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The pull up is the foundational vertical pulling pattern for calisthenics and all of bodyweight training. Yet most of us, myself included, often rush to get past the pull up … Continue Reading How To Get Your Strongest Ever Pull Ups In 2025?
You can do 3-5 strict ring muscle ups for more than one set. If you can’t, work up to this level. My last post outlaid a vast roadmap to success … Continue Reading The Next Step After Ring Muscle Ups? (Changing My Mind On The Forward Roll)
Ask any calisthenics coach or even enthusiast that’s reached a high enough level, what their top moves are that cause the most elbow stress and you’ll be hard pushed to … Continue Reading ‘Ring Muscle Ups Are Just Bad For Your Elbows’, Period?
It was the late great Charles Poliquin who always said the measure of a coach was their ability to take a female from not being able to do a chin … Continue Reading More First Female Chin Ups & Re-Thinking When You’ve ‘Mastered’ A Move
A muscle up is a massive milestone for anyone. Younger, older, bigger, smaller, bar or rings. It doesn’t matter. You’ll always remember your first. But there’s another factor that just … Continue Reading Getting Strict Ring Muscle Ups As A FEMALE?
A lot can happen in 32 weeks in any walk of life, but if you apply yourself and slowly but surely keep knocking domino after domino down, sometimes the changes … Continue Reading The HOME RUN: Calisthenic Movement’s Mobility 2.0 (FINAL Phase Review)
How I reclaimed (and bettered) the slow bar & ring muscle up after wrecking my left shoulder & bicep. This post is a sequel to my recent post: Relearning The … Continue Reading SLOW Bar & Ring Muscle Ups, Post Injury?
This is a project that’s been a long time in the making. I’ve been asked countless times what the secret is to muscle ups, or how to pull chest to … Continue Reading The Perfect Blueprint To Pull HIGHER (Muscle Up Pulling Tutorial)
In 2019 I did a 28kg ring muscle up with relative ease. I basically just rolled over the transition with speed and only went up to 28kg to outdo an … Continue Reading Relearning The Ring Muscle Up (My Humbling Story)
This will be quite a niche post…although you don’t have to have a gymnastics fetish or calisthenics obsession to know about, and be wowed by, the rare feat that is … Continue Reading The One Arm Chin Up: SUB-jective Vs OB-jective Training Methods? (MY EXPERIMENT)
Paused reps are a gemstone in a strength coach’s toolbox. They target & fix weak points, make your regular reps stronger and just make things that much harder, without having … Continue Reading Paused Reps? (My Experiment)
In the world of forward thinking & go, go, GO, it’s so easy to get vacuumed up into the endless tsunami of wanting more yesterday. Your car isn’t new enough, … Continue Reading Should We Really Fetishize ‘The Basics’?
This post ties in nicely with a recent one, How I BUTCHERED My Pull Ups For YEARS. In that post I shared how a lack of scapula awareness while doing … Continue Reading How To NEVER Plateau In Calisthenics
When I first saw the Reverse Nordic Curl it was called a ‘Natural Leg Extension’. And this is essentially what it is: using your bodyweight to target your quads. I … Continue Reading How To: Reverse Nordic Curl/Human Leg Extension (TUTORIAL)
Square vs twisted hip front splits? How to program for 1 rep max based strength training? Good weighted pull up standards for calisthenics? I noticed you complaining about hip rotation … Continue Reading Fitness Questions From Instagram (October 2021)
Some 8 years or so ago now when I first started doing pull ups, the task was simple: get my chin above the bar. Not that I even used a … Continue Reading How I BUTCHERED My Pull Ups For YEARS