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The Hip Hinge Forearm Push Up: Bodyweight Leveraging at its Best!

March 4, 2013 by Mike Fitch 14 Comments

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The Hip Hinge Forearm Push-Up is another great bodyweight conditioning movement that serves as an awesome exercise by itself, while also preparing your body for more advanced progressions. The human body is an incredible network of levers that act together to create movement in all directions. We can change the leverage at a joint to […]

Filed Under: Articles, Bodyweight Disciplines, Bodyweight Exercises, Exercise Tutorial, Features, Hand Balancing, Horizontal Push Patterns, Instructional Tagged With: forearm, hand balance, push up

Shoulder Weaving: More Practice for Handstand Control

December 28, 2012 by Kálmán "Kiwee" Attila 2 Comments

Perfecting a handstand is a fantastic goal for so many reasons – it’s a great skill, is central to overall hand balancing and gymnastics practice, and makes for an excellent exercise unto itself. “Shoulder Weaving” is an incredibly effective way to improve your balance, control and strength for your handstand practice. So, I’m psyched to […]

Filed Under: Articles, Conditioning, Exercise Tutorial, Features, Gymnastics, Hand Balancing, Instructional, Vertical Push Patterns Tagged With: hand balance, handstand training, shoulder weave

Turtle Freeze: Put Some BBoy Style in Your Hand Balancing!

August 27, 2012 by Mike Fitch 7 Comments

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The Turtle Freeze is a staple hand balancing move in break dancing. But it’s more than just a fun dance move – it’s also an incredible exercise for creating total body tension as well as wrist, shoulder and trunk stability. This week we stopped by the practice spot of our boy Kevin “New Cre” Sanchez […]

Filed Under: Articles, Breakdancing, Exercise Tutorial, Features, Hand Balancing, Instructional Tagged With: bboy, breakdance, hand balance, newcre

Static Frog with Back Extension: Turning a Classic Exercise Upside Down

May 8, 2012 by Mike Fitch 4 Comments

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Hand balancing is an incredible practice and a huge part of bodyweight training. Not only is the work great for increasing your shoulder girdle stabilization, but it can also be a killer way to challenge your entire body and improve your neuromuscular connectivity. And, way beyond your basic handstands, the opportunities to challenge your strength, […]

Filed Under: Exercise Tutorial, Features, Hand Balancing, Instructional, Trunk Tagged With: back extension, frog, hand balance, hip extension

Advanced Frog Stand Variations: Fun With Hand Balancing!

February 10, 2012 by Mike Fitch 20 Comments

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I’ve been putting a lot of time into my Hand Balancing practice lately and just can’t say enough about how much it contributes to a bodyweight workout routine. Our Advanced Frog Stand tutorial that we posted a year ago this week turned out to be one of more popular videos, exceeding 30,000 views. So, we […]

Filed Under: Bodyweight Exercises, Exercise Tutorial, Features, Hand Balancing, Instructional Tagged With: frog stand, hand balance, planche, static exercise

Jumping and Static Frog Combination: Not Your Child’s Leapfrog!

July 28, 2011 by Mike Fitch 15 Comments

The traveling and static frog combination in this week’s exercise gives us a new animal flow exercise that brings together some powerful traveling moves with static holds building amazing strength and control. I was inspired to introduce this move while in Truro Cape Cod this past week, where I was lucky enough to have miles […]

Filed Under: Articles, Bodyweight Exercises, Exercise Tutorial, Features, Instructional Tagged With: animal movements, hand balance, Hips, strength

Advanced Bodyweight Workout Challenge – Week 4 Entries

February 14, 2011 by Mike Fitch 5 Comments

KEVIN GRETO sent in our favorite entry this week. He integrates some parkaour and hand balancing techniques into his workout. And, the only tool he uses are a pair of parallettes, which if you don’t have a pair of your own, you can click on the parallettes tab to learn how to make them. I […]

Filed Under: Challenges, Parallettes Tagged With: challenge, greto, hand balance, parallettes, parkour

Advanced Bodyweight Workout Challenge! (new deadline)

February 6, 2011 by Mike Fitch 8 Comments

Take the Global Bodyweight Training “Advanced Bodyweight Training Challenge!” Show us your best workout routine for the $100 grand prize!

Filed Under: Bodyweight Exercises, Challenges, Conditioning Tagged With: challenge, hand balance

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