Weekly Progress Report: 2013-05-08
Challenge #2: The Whistle
I’ve been practicing quite often lately. I’ve been able to get a slightly louder whistle, but I find that hitting that sweet spot with any regularity makes my tongue fatigued pretty quickly. Tongue’s a muscle alright.
Now I just got a wisdom tooth removed, so any vacuum effect in my mouth, as well as head-upside-down training, will have to be put on hold for some time. Hopefully just a few days, but potentially a week. I’ll do my best to recover fast.
Challenge #6: Straddle Press to Handstand
As mentioned last week, I started going into handstand practice with a scheduled regularity. As stated above, now I have to be patient before getting back into it. But the regularity’s built, so I’m confident skill will improve quickly.
Challenge #11: Origami
Keepin’ on with the folding. 202 + 7 = 209!
Weekly Progress Report: 2013-05-01
Challenge #6: Straddle Press to Handstand
Hollow Body Hold: 62 seconds!
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As I’m slowly wrapping up my first parallettes training phase (my flow is getting better; I will get a video up in a week or two when I feel it significant to show), I’ll be switching to another skills-based program, this time with the gymnastics rings. This will help me, amongst other things, to work on Challenge #8: The Iron Cross.
As for this challenge, I’m still going to work on it, but I’ll be focusing on another component. As wee bit less strength-based, but nonetheless essential one: the Handstand on the ground.
Over the last month, I’ve had the opportunity to build a habit of practicing simple movements in a daily-dose fashion. It has helped tremendously in Read more
Weekly Progress Report: 2013-03-19
Challenge #6: Straddle Press to Handstand
Check it out. It’s the first time I can actually, really play around with this series of movements.
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I’m so excited! I used my gymnastics gym’s p-bars for the first time to get my scheduled practice in. The width is fixed, and much narrower than how I usually place them.
This kind of offset me at first, but then I realized it’s pretty much where they’re meant to be, and I managed to get my body through even though I thought I could not! Anyway, so after my scheduled practice I went and decided to practice my L-sit to bent shoulder stands to try to get it in.
Ryan doing a Shoulder Stand
And get it in I did.
Another element I think helped, is I got across one of Ryan from GMB‘s shoulder stand poses, and it made me realize that, as with the elbow planches, I wasn’t getting my weight nearly forward enough! And sure enough, paying attention to that gave me way better stability and balance.
Challenge #11: Origami
153 + 6 = 159! Not missin’ a day!
Weekly Progress Report: 2013-03-13
Challenge #6: Straddle Press to Handstand
Started Phase #3, on my new set of parallettes! On this phase, it’s time to practice components of the flow.
Here’s a small video I put up with some of the challenging motions to learn:
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It feels challenging yet easy; I do feel that the work done in the previous phases led me to being able to learn what I’m currently learning.
Gonna get there!
Challenge #11: Origami
144 + 9 = 153. Past half of the second hundred already!
Weekly Progress Report: 2013-03-04
What’s up folks! Crazy week, so this one’s gonna be quick.
Challenge #6: Straddle Press to Handstand
GOT MY P-BARZ today! They are fabulous.
Also, handles are soft as a baby’s butt.
Challenge #11: Origami
136 + 8 = 144, punks!
Weekly Progress Report: 2013-02-24
Challenge #6: Straddle Press to Handstand
I finally shot my last session of Phase 2, Day 2 last week!
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Note on the last movement: My line is kind of hampered by the top-end of the dumbbells’ knob; it seems even more apparent on film than I thought it would be. No matter; I’m getting my realz p-barz. SOON…
A note on that; while I’m waiting to receive them I’ll be taking a week-long break in regards to parallettes training. I’ve been training them for several months now, so before I jump to the last phase I feel it will be beneficial to do unrelated work for a while.
You know, like pulling 400lbs off the floor.
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Challenge #8: Iron Cross
Lately I’ve received awesome technical and progression cues for the Rings Muscle-Up. Very high chances of moving back on that goal soon, for a while.
Challenge #11: Origami
And again, 7 more! 136!
Weekly Progress Report: 2013-02-17
Challenge #6: Straddle Press to Handstand
So I filmed what is pretty much my rounding up of Phase 2, Day 1 of my P-bars training.
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Presses and the plank-positioned holds are now in the category of being quite easy and comfortable to perform. L-sit and its brothers are an entirely different matter, but improvement is undeniable.
Plus, as I practiced my Tucked Shoulder Stands (see video from last week) this weekend, I made definite progress. Didn’t get around filming myself, but I could tell I’m correcting my elbows being too far in flexion, and I got into an actually balanced position more frequently.
Getting there!
Dusty’s P-Barz
What’s more, I ordered my own set of actual P-bars! Following GMB’s recommendation, I bough them from this guy.
Finally, I reviewed the program’s videos for the upcoming 2 phases. My take on them coming soon!
Challenge #11: Origami
The count, with +7, is now at 129.
Weekly Progress Report: 2013-02-10
Challenge #6: Straddle Press to Handstand
Parallettes training is still following its due course, and amongst other things I’ve made good and steady improvements on the current Shoulder Stand progression.
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I think the main point I need to focus on at this stage is to be able to get a balance without having my elbows sinking in.
It’s over a month now I’ve been working on this phase of the program, so once I get that down, there’s a good chance it’ll be time to move on. So, more videos to come of course.
Challenge #11: Origami!
122 cranes and counting… starting to get a nice gradient-colored variety here.
Weekly Progress Report: 2012-12-09
Challenge #2: The Finger Whistle
I noticed I’m able to get the “right angle” to the whistling sound more often than before. Still not mastered, but definitely quite better.
Challenge #6: Straddle Press to Handstand
Aside from the Parallettes progressions, I also started experimented on different little exercises to improve my balance. While I’m still pretty much in the same time range, I noticed the quality of my stance improved quite a bit.
Also, I started working this thing here.
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If you can’t see the video: click here.Whatever you call it, it’s basically helping me slowly tame the motion of transferring my hips over my shoulders. It’s also helping me try out the hand balance in a straddled position, which I must say I hadn’t tried much yet, before. Pretty cool stuff, as it also makes me feel closer to my goal. Heh, it also makes me feel where I have yet to develop more strength. :D
Weekly Progress Report: 2012-10-08
Challenge #2: The Whistle
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Challenge #6: Straddle Press to Handstand
Latest take on the Frog Stand Press Handstand. A wee bit better alignment, although Read more
