Skill Development Articles & Tutorials

Self-Assessment: How to Check Your Movement Capability

Self-assessments help you focus on proper training techniques and keeping goals on track. Read more about how to take control at every step of your training.

How to Do a Handstand: 9 Detailed Lessons Covering Prep, Progressions & Training Plans

Prep, progressions, and training plans for beginner to advanced handstand training. Videos, charts, and FAQs for all stages.

Avoid Exercise Burnout: 3 Steps to Autoregulation Training

If you’re used to pushing yourself hard in your workouts, autoregulation is essential to ensure steady progress without injury or burnout.

Muscle-Up Tutorial: How to Do a Strict Rings Muscle-Up

If you’re stuck on the muscle-up, this tutorial will give you all the tools you need to finally nail the strict rings muscle-up.

How Women Can Build Practical Upper Body Strength at Home (Without Weights)

Want to get stronger at home without needing a gym membership? Want to finally get your first chin-up or handstand? We’ll show you how.

Kip-Up Tutorial: Get Your Bruce Lee On

Do you want to learn the kip-up but unsure of how to get started? Use this tutorial and you’ll be doing it in no time.

What Can You Realistically Achieve in a Year of Training? Fitness Progression with the GMB Method

You can accomplish a lot in a year of training. We give you some examples and how to make the most progress using the GMB Method.

How Autoregulation Helped My CrossFit Performance

Sara is a CrossFit Level 2 trainer who was dealing with multiple injuries that were holding her back. Embracing autoregulation changed everything for her.

What Does it Mean to Have a Gold Medal Body?

Discover what it means to have a “gold medal body,” and how achieving that goal can help you move better, feel better, and gain control over your body.

How to Beat Stress Eating

The biggest issue most folks have with nutrition isn’t finding the right diet, it’s stress eating. Learn two simple guidelines and two skills you can develop to manage snacking when tired or stressed out.

It’s All in Your Head – Owning Your Subjective Experience of Exercise

Learn how to measure the subjective experience, track it, and learn from it so you can truly own your fitness abilities and goals.

Going Beyond Capability with Your Fitness Training

Training for fitness vs training for sport is the difference between developing capabilities vs abilities. What should you be focusing on?

Learn Movement Skills Faster with these 5 Motor Learning Strategies

You want to learn movements and skills as quickly as possible – who doesn’t? These 5 motor learning strategies are just the ticket.

How We Keep the Basics Interesting

Bored of the basics? In this Podcast we’ll cover lots of ways you can make basic exercises more interesting, even after you’ve been practicing them for years.

The Origin of Movement – How We Learned What We Teach

“That movement is from _________!” Um…, no it isn’t. Let’s talk about why movement skills need to be open sourced

New Year’s Resolutions are for Suckers – Just Take the First Damn Step (and keep on taking them)

Why do New Year’s Resolutions usually fail? Here’s a better way to set goals and take the steps necessary to reach them.

How to Build Your Own Parallettes (And the Best Options Money Can Buy)

If you want to get started with parallettes training, you can learn how to build you own parallettes right at home. Discover 3 ways to make your own DIY parallettes today.

Building Straight Arm Strength With Handstands & L-Sits on Parallettes

Advanced skills, like handstands and L-Sits on the parallettes, require high levels of straight arm strength. Learn new techniques to improve your straight arm pressing strength on the parallettes.

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