-Advanced Fundamentals- How To Strengthen Your Wrists & Shoulders
Wanna progress to advanced calisthenics movements?
Then you have to strengthen your wrists and shoulders. Period.
If you condition you wrists and shoulders successfully, then you’ll progress towards advanced movements – like handstand push ups – more easily and safely.
On the contrary, if you don’t put the necessary time in training your shoulders and wrists, the chances of getting injured are very high and you may never actually achieve some of the skills you’d like.
-Calisthenics Wrist Training-
As you gradually move away from the beginner level, it’s important to train your wrists more and more frequently.
While the topic of wrist conditioning is pretty extensive, you can easily get started by watching the video below:
The easiest way to implement wrist training is to add the exercises into your warm up routine.
As you get more advanced, you can start to train your wrists daily.
For more info on wrist conditiong, check out my article:
Having strong and mobile shoulders is very important in bodyweight training – especially if you want to achieve gymnastics skills like the front lever.
There are 4 shoulder positions:
Scapula depressed – shoulders away from the ears
Scapula elevated – shoulders towards the ears
Scapula protracted – shoulderblades away from each other
Scapula retracted – shoulderblades together
Each upper body bodyweight exercise requires a specific shoulder position (or a combination of them).
Check out the video below to get an idea on how the different positions look like:
For more info on how to strengthen and condition your shoulders, check out these 2 articles:
While lots of people consider weight lifting superior to calisthenics in regards to leg training, there are still some very hard bodyweight leg movements that can challenge even the more advanced athletes!
This article, is all about increasing your pull ups.
While the techniques vary, you can easily implement some of them right away!
The Ultimate Guide To Archer Push Ups
The archer push up is one of the most useful exercises as it can help you progress towards any one arm pushing variation – eg. one arm hindu push ups.In this article, you’ll find everything you need to know about archer push ups.
How To Do One Arm Push Ups -Complete Guide-
Once archer push ups become easy, you should progress to an even harder push up variation.
The most obvious choice is the one arm push up.
In this step-by-step guide, you’ll find out how to achieve this awesome move.
Build Explosive Strength With Behind-The-Back Clap Push Ups
This article is a guest post I’ve written a while back.
Here, you’ll find out how to achieve the behind-the-back clap push up.