Body Weight Training/Gymnastics

[Young Athlete]

I enjoy doing pull ups and I was doing some and was talking to eric and he recommended I check out beastskills.com

I did god damn this stuff looks insanely hard and for all you without a gym well let just say you can still become a monster

http://beastskills.com/tutorials.htm check it out I thought it was interesting to be honest

I'm going to try and teach myself the hand stand to start out

[ToothlessFerret]

Nice one - the pull up / chin up articles also look pretty cool!

[Mihael]

Great site. I stumbled upon it a month ago and I'll be doing part of it this summer, mostly focusing on handstands.

[Young Athlete]

I wonder if anyone on this site can do a flag or clapping hand stand push up cause those things look hard

[Lathiel]

I can do a flag, front/back levers, press to handstands and straddle planche. They just take dedication, and good body control. It's hard to train those skills and lift weights at the same time though...

[Young Athlete]

I can do a flag, front/back levers, press to handstands and straddle planche. They just take dedication, and good body control. It's hard to train those skills and lift weights at the same time though...

Why is that?

[bigwhat62]

that dude from beastskills has one the strong comps from menshealth. he is pretty dang strong

[Young Athlete]

that dude from beastskills has won the strong comps from menshealth. he is pretty dang strong

Yeah I saw some of his video's. He's got some balls to he has some pics of doing handstands by a small ledge on concrete. I'm have a hard time manning up and just going all the way over to get my feet against the wall on the hand stand

[bigwhat62]

that dude from beastskills has won the strong comps from menshealth. he is pretty dang strong

Yeah I saw some of his video's. He's got some balls to he has some pics of doing handstands by a small ledge on concrete. I'm have a hard time manning up and just going all the way over to get my feet against the wall on the hand stand

haha, i know what you mean. i would probably have pillows and my wife spotting me...

[Young Athlete]

that dude from beastskills has won the strong comps from menshealth. he is pretty dang strong

Yeah I saw some of his video's. He's got some balls to he has some pics of doing handstands by a small ledge on concrete. I'm have a hard time manning up and just going all the way over to get my feet against the wall on the hand stand

haha, i know what you mean. i would probably have pillows and my wife spotting me...

I tired to have my little brother help me out but he was to weak

[Tikuane]

@ Lathiel, I always thought shoulder and core strength would be limiting factors in movements like press handstands and planches. Whats your current OHP and BW if you don't mind me asking?

[Lathiel]

@YA

Because to really practice and get good at those skills you have to train them frequently and with your muscles are fresh as possible. You're muscles will be too fatigued. Plus, it takes a lot of time, time better spent focusing on lifting weights. It takes years for your body to really look like a gymnast's by adding just a few of their movements to your training.

@Tikune

My overhead press is 155, at a bodyweight of 180-185lbs. I think i told someone else this before, but pressing your body is 100 times different than pressing a barbell and weight. It's really a matter of good relative strength and proper tension in your body. I was doing gymnastics skills before I ever lifted weights. They're one of those things that in order to get good at them, you have to practice the skill in progression, but no real accessory movement is going to make that movement that much stronger (without getting too complicated that is...). It's the same way how some coaches say the best way to train the Olympic Lifts is to just do them, that the accessory movements like pulls and power CJ and Snatch aren't really necessary...

[Young Athlete]

I just want to do a hand stand right now I'm not trying to become a full out gymnast plus I'll still be lifting as scheduled. This is just something I want to teach myself (I want to be like the old strong men and master my body).

[Tikuane]

It's definitely quite different. Your press to bodyweight ratio is 2% greater than mine yet I can flex my shoulders but a few degrees out of a static tuck planche. What kind of skill progression did you use for the press handstand? A core gymnastics skill like this one should have broad benefit, I'd think.

[Lathiel]

I just did Press to Handstands as best as i could, until i got them down. I did some negatives from the handstand position, lowering down into the press, then into the tuck. But other than that, I just did the movement until I got good at it.