Using a resistance band is one of the the best way to approach training for the planche. It will provide you with measurability, specificity and injury prevention for your planche training. I’ll go over several different band-assisted planche variations and progressions, and the things you need to be aware of and keep in mind when training planche with resistance bands.

Whether you’re 10 years old or 35 years old, there’s a good chance that if you see someone doing a backflip, you think to yourself, “I wanna be able to do that”. In this tutorial, myself and Theo are going to go over everyyyyything you need to learn to backflip, so that you can finally make your childhood backflip dreams come true. 

A handstand isn’t JUST about balancing on your hands. You need the proper head and hand positioning, shoulder positioning, hip and spine positioning, and more. In this article we cover shoulder positioning. Proper shoulder positioning will greatly help your handstand become more efficient and effective. Here we cover the three form cues that are crucial for proper shoulder positioning: shoulder elevation, shoulder flexion, and internal rotation.

The goal of this article is to dispel a few common myths regarding handstands. Taking these myths into consideration, we are able to have a clearer perspective on how to view our handstand journey, as well as train for it more effectively and efficiently.

In this final piece to the handstand puzzle, we will go over how to achieve the correct hip and spine positioning to get your handstand form to perfection. The reason I’ve put hip and spine positioning together is because you can’t really work on one while ignoring the other, especially when upside-down in a handstand. Once you've got this and the previously-covered form cues down, you are ready to put together a perfect handstand.

In this article I am going to go over my most helpful tips for mitigating our risk of wrist injury. I will go through specific stretches, exercises, and alternative training methods for reducing the load you put on your wrists. I will teach you how to prevent wrist injury as well as work with wrist injury.

In this Tuck Planche tutorial I will teach you practical tips on how to perform the movement, what muscles to tighten, and what to do and think about while you are doing the Tuck Planche. I will also teach you technical drills that will help you learn the Tuck Planche faster, as well as strength drills that will help you develop the relevant strength for this skill.

The difference between people who make it far in handstands and calisthenics and those who don’t, is how well those people manage their injuries. Cause let’s face it - everyone doing high level athletics will get injured. In this article, I’m going to give you 10 helpful tips on how to deal with injuries particularly related to calisthenics and handstands. Of course, preventing injury in the first place is ideal. But, when that is a foregone conclusion, we must learn to manage our injury.

In this tutorial I will simplify the handstand kick up, the must-know handstand entry for all movers. In other words, I want you to think about as few steps as possible when entering the kick-up, and still perform it as effectively as possible. We will cover the steps for entering the kick up, form cues to keep in mind, and drills for training your kick up.

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.