Saturday, 7 April 2012

Homemade Gym Stuff: Handstands - Never too old..!

Just started doing handstands against a wall,
Ideally if you can manage to hold a wall handstand for around 11-12 seconds, you should aim to start training with 10 reps of 6 seconds to get you to your first minute! When you can do this 'easily' then increase set times to 15 secs x 4, again for a minute, from here you could drop sets/increase time until you are holding for a minute straight. You should be looking at between 10 and 20 minutes holding BEFORE progressing on to headstand wall press ups (headstand because unless you use parallettes, your head will not go below your hands) as you need to suitably strengthen the 'cuff.
 
Hee, hee - my 5 minute workout - which took 35 minutes!

One tip I would rec. is to plunge aching wrists in to a sink of cold water (30sec per time) to aid recovery
- Homemade Gym Stuff

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Thursday, 5 April 2012

Homemade Gym Stuff - Jack's Backflip, York Boxing Club

This is Jack. Last time he backflipped was around 5 years ago...
After a half-dozen practices on the mat...he pulls this off!

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