Fixing the Muscle Up: Wrist Strength
A muscle-up is a transition. Somehow a muscle-up went from being the way a gymnast got on top of the rings, to becoming an exercise that everyone in a gym seemingly wants [...]
Sleep, Recovery, and Exceptional Performance
So our science around the miserable things that happen to our bodies without enough sleep is pretty good. I will proceed as I often do by not actually providing any real references to the [...]
(p)Rehab: The Issue of Thumbs
I started working with a client a couple of months ago who had (what seems to be more and more common) extremely limiting hand pain. The initial success in dealing with pain that [...]
One Arm Pull-up: Pre-reqs
I wrote an article on one arm pull-ups a few months ago where I mentioned I might write and film some more stuff on perfecting the one arm pull-up. However as the snow [...]
Some Older Backcountry Training Regimes
So another good day in the back country had me thinking that it was time to start putting up some more workouts for those out there who are in for long slogs at altitude. We [...]
Mixed Training: Pressing out of a lock off
It galls me that #machavok actually beat me to this one; I had experimented last season with a number of exercise variations that would help work on pressing up and above tools, but never [...]
The Elusive One Arm Pull-up
So I was standing around Friday being painted before a show. My phone buzzes. I ignore it. Then it buzzes again, and again. I apologize to the guy doing the painting and grab my [...]