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Training for Acrobatics - and More (2025/211)

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Hi-level stuff today! Way heavy on videos, so we'll make it a bit shorter today.   

Gymnasts (2025/205)

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More from our favourite sport today: training, some fails, some lounging around in the gym... but all of them exceedingly fit!  

Time On Your Hands (2025/194)

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You can never spend enough time on your hands... Not good, but at least he is making an effort.    

Work Life Balance (2025/165)

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That title is a cheeky way of introducing a post celebrating the art of handbalance. But, keeping your workouts and your ordinary affairs in a sensible balance is no bad thing.  Hand balancing requires strength and a strong core, plus flexible shoulders. And, because your balance organs are in your ears, when you're upside down they are close to the ground - so learning to balance on your hands is harder than learning to balance on your feet. And remember how long that took you! So, don't despair if it doesn't work for you straight away. Just keep practicing. And remember, the correct stance is a dead straight line through wrists, elbows, shoulders, hips, legs, feet and toes. Your chest should be ever-so-slightly hollowed. OK so far? We'll start with that perfection - but feel free to practice against a wall, both ways around, to develop your endurance for supporting your weight wrong-way up! Which of those is best? Above the waist - left. Below the waist - right (espec...