Crazy wushu taolu (kungfu) demonstration

Parodying the great Eugen Sandow!

My progress in weighted chin-ups

Hello. My weighted chin-ups are better now and I can do them 10 times!

I began with 5 times and progressed through a couple of weeks or less up to 10 times.

I do them almost every day once a day 1 set of as many reps as I can.

When I reach (if I reach?) 11 times then I will add some more weight. I'll try to add the minimum possible weight from what I have. The current weight is 10 kilos.

I do these chin-ups after push-ups in Sandow's system, so it's like a part of the system now.

A small progress in weighted chin-ups

Hello! I want to show you my little progress in doing pull-ups/chin-ups. At first I tried to do as many pull-ups as I could - that was 11 times. Before that I could do around 8 times. I attempted that for several times during a week and next week I did 11 times of strict pull-ups.

One natural bodybuilder whom I kind of trust said that if you can do more than 10 pull-ups then you need to add weights for better training. So I added 10 kg of dumbbells. Why exactly 10 kg you may ask? Because that is the weight I train now following Sandow's system (5kg x 2).

When I added 10 kg on me I decided to do chin-ups instead of pull-ups since chin-ups should work your latissimus dorsi in a better way than pull-ups plus biceps have a better workout too.

My first attempt resulted in 5 times of strict chin-ups. Several days later I tried it again and did 6 times. All strict chin-ups, or at least I think so!

In the video below you can see my empty pull-ups, my weighted chin-ups attempt 1 and attempt 2. All done between several days, not in one day.

Pull-up as a predecessor of a muscle-up

Muscle-up is a cool move and besides that it is one of the basics of acrobatics or gymnastics. It can help you to do more advanced and hard tricks.

So, practice your pull-ups and when you can do at least 5 explosive ones you may attempt a muscle-up.

The way to the muscle-up:

1st step - 5 explosive pull-ups (better if you can touch the bar with your chest)

2nd step - try a muscle-up

This video also has my little progress in handstand push-up

Handstand push-up exercise

An exercise devised to build up strength for a handstand push-up - the negative wall-assisted handstand push-up.
Repeat it until you can't slide down in a controlled way, then stop, have a break.

Testing foundational strength requirements for acrobatics

I stumbled upon one webpage which stated that it's quite possible to start doing acrobatics at almost any age and since I am in love with acrobatic skills I would like to give it a go.

Firstly you must complete these checkpoints:

10-15 inches vertical leap (15'' = 38 cm) to be able to do a back flip

60 sec handstand near the wall to be able to do a free handstand

15 sec free handstand to be able to do a frog stand

15 sec frog stand to be able to start drilling controlled negatives

muscle-up on rings or a bar