Pistol Squats
Today I took a video of myself doing a few pistol squats. The form isn’t perfect, my standing leg certainly struggles for stability and my idle leg needs to be a little straighter, furthermore my right leg is a lot weaker than my left but I’m making progress. I took Neil Bendnar’s advice I alternate […]
Ring Muscle Ups
Just a quick update today. Having come pretty close last week, I managed my first ever ring muscle up today, the regular training for this has paid off. My next goal is to try get some reps out. I’ll upload a video next week. Just for a test I also tried some fingertip pullups today, […]
Calisthenics Active Recovery
In running there is the concept of the recovery run, this is performed the day after a strenuous run and is a light short run to improve blood flow into your aching legs to speed up recovery. On Tuesday I did my usual muscle up and handstand training, which is a pretty tough workout. Following […]
Closing In On The One Arm Pullup
Or not quite as I reckon I still have at least a solid year of training before I reach it, but in recent weeks I’ve really made some great progress towards the one arm pullup. Starting back in June when I made the decision to change my training plan to work uneven close hand ring pullups. […]
Hats Off
Just wanted to write this post to give a quick mention to my brother-in-law Steve who ran the Wirral Half Marathon on Sunday in an astonishing 85:57. In the space of just a few years Steve has transformed himself from a sub 110 half marathon runner to someone who in his own words was quite […]
Tough Mudder Sydney Spring 2013
On Sunday I entered Tough Mudder in Sydney with my friend Yury. The quick version is that it was great fun and we achieved a time of around 1:50 being amongst the first in our group to finish. We started at 9am which was the first group, this was perfect, allowing us to get past […]
Tough Mudder Pre-Race Preview
Tomorrow I will be entering Tough Mudder for the first time with my mate Yury. Tough Mudder is actually what got me into calisthenics in the first place, I signed up to do it last year but had to drop out due to injury. However, as part of the 6 months of training I had […]
Progressive Calisthenics S4 Method
I mentioned last week that we have started finishing my Friday session with a slightly modified version of the Progressive Calisthenics S4 Method. The S4 method as written by Paul Wade, is a routine for getting a very quick 5 minute (including warmup) workout. The idea is you work one area for 4 rounds of […]