What kind of sets you use can make a difference in your motivation, as well your ability to break through plateaus. In this piece we are going to cover a whole bunch of them, so buckle up! While you may already be familiar with a few of the set types covered in this piece, I am confident you will pick up at least a couple new helpful ways to switch up your set/rep scheme to help you break through plateaus and force progress.

We’ve already gone over how to use your fingers to avoid falling forwards over your hands. In this short but juicy article, I will teach you how to use your hand heels and avoid falling backwards/under balance. I will share the form cues you need to think about to make correcting your balance more efficient, and some practicable exercises to improve your balance while in the handstand.

One of the most important things when you learn to handstand is learning to really use your hands to balance! In particular, you must learn to push in with your fingers to adjust your body one way, and push in with your hand heels to adjust your body the other way. In this article I give you drills which help specifically train your ability to use your hands to balance. I truly believe that these drills in particular may produce your biggest leap in progress learning the handstand.

A lot of people might think, at first, that there isn’t much to think about when performing a handstand, other than just to not fall down. However, those looking to achieve a correct handstand will be confronted with the opposite: a barrage of a form cues such as: flexing the shoulders, elevating the shoulders, pointing the tows, keeping your elbows straight, posteriorly tilting your hips, and on and on. In this article I organize and consolidate the many form cues down to the ones you need to focus on most.

In this tutorial I will go over how to do the slow muscle up , using a false grip.. We will attack the muscle-up by breaking it down into three parts: the pull, the push, and the transition. As well, I will go over tips on how to avoid injury while training for the muscle-up, how to use a so-called “false grip”, how to use bands to aid in your progress, and specifically what exercises to train and how to do them.

Taking a look at the Explosive Muscle-Up (as opposed to the Slow Muscle Up), we dissect this movement into three important parts. The pull, the push, and technique. For the technique part we will be taking a look at learning the Bar Kip and applying it to develop a Kipping Muscle Up, and from there try to make our Explosive Muscle Up more and more strict, with less and less kip. We’ll also take a look at learning the Over Grip.

This tutorial will NOT tell you to simply work through those same 4-5 planche progressions that many other tutorials do. Here we talk about how to create half-steps BETWEEN planche progressions and introduce planche training from different angles. We also discuss some specific exercises for building the necessary core strength to perform the planche.

In this guide to achieving the One Arm Pull Up, I’ll be going over tips for injury prevention, different methods for training the One arm pull-up (OAPU), the stepwise progressions I recommend you follow, and exercises to help build relevant strength for the One Arm Pull Up, or chin-up.

Ever wondered about bodyweight biceps exercises? In this short bodyweight strength tutorial I take you through 3 ways of isolating your biceps using only your bodyweight as resistance (at least as close to isolating as you get with bodyweight training)

In this guide we take on the Hollow Back, and attack it from three angles. Those are: strength, mobility, and technique/balance. As well, I’ll give you the specific progressions to work through, practical directions on form, and more.

How to press handstand? This tutorial for the Press to Handstand attacks the move from three angles: strength, mobility, and balance/technique. In this article I will let you in on the best exercises, progressions and drills to build strength for the Press to Handstand, stretches and exercises to acquire the needed mobility, and techniques to help you learn the press to handstand.

The Front Lever is a great bodyweight exercise for back. But too many tutorials out there tell you only the 5-6 basic front lever progressions you should go through in order to perform the full front lever. The problem is, the jump in difficulty between each of the main front lever progressions is WAY TOO BIG. In this article I give you a strategy for breaking those front lever progressions down into bite sized pieces. I will also talk about why the front lever is more difficult for some people, but regardless if it takes you 1 year, or 10, it will still provide a great bodyweight exercise for back and core strength.

The back lever is a cool and beginner-friendly calisthenics movement. As well, it is a great bodyweight exercise for building strength. Whereas you don’t see too many children rocking muscle ups or front levers during play time, the back lever is actually something you may have tried before as a child, messing around on the monkey bars or pull-up bars. In this article I will go over some positional cues to keep in mind when learning and training the back lever - in particular I'll cover the correct shoulder positioning, grip variations, and spinal positioning. As well, I will cover the different back lever progressions you should work through. Finally, I will go over some exercises which will help build strength specifically for the back lever.

if you’ve come here to learn how to do a handstand, then you’re in the right place. In this article I will highlight 10 common mistakes I see people making while learning to handstand, and how to overcome them. Learning to handstand is a crucial part of your calisthenics journey, and it is a great way to build bodyweight strength. Here are 10 things to avoid in mastering one!

A full, thorough tutorial on the 90 degree handstand push-up. The 90 degree push up is a badass calisthenic skill, and also possibly the ultimate bodyweight pushing exercise. It is a natural step forward once you’ve mastered the handstand push up and are comfortable with that.

The story of how watching a movie as a teenager evolved into creating a weird skill that people doubted was legit when it was posted to social media. one part of the skill is based in an actual yoga move which is called the Inverted Locust Press, but the rest is an improvisation of sorts that came to be from combining moves like the hollow back and planche. Read more to see what the hell I’m talking about :)

In this introduction to calisthenics equipment for handstanding, I will go over 4 pieces of handstand equipment that I use and recommend. These are: the handstand board, parallettes, and handstand blocks and handstand canes. I’ll go over their different uses, the advantages of using each, and why I recommend you do consider getting yourself some handstand equipment.

You already know the benefits of being barefoot. You know that wearing over-cushioned shoes weakens the musculature in our feet, and flattens our arches. The best option, then? Barefoot/minimalist shoes. I’ve gone through dozens of pairs of barefoot shoes myself, and so have discovered which minimalist shoes are the true winners of the field, as well as discovered one popular choice I think you should avoid.

The 5 most common mistakes that most people do when learning the handstand push-up (HSPU). This handstand push-up (HPSU) tutorial is for anyone wanting learn the handstand push-up (HSPU). The handstand push-up (HSPU) is an awesome callisthenics and bodyweight strength exercise. In my blog you can find more Bodyweight and calisthenics strength and tutorials.