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Bar Muscle-Up Swing: Slack is Bad

Video by Travis Ewart Do you struggle with keeping in rhythm on Bar Muscle-Ups because you have a choppy swing? Do you feel like you might rip your shoulders out of their sockets when going for a big enough kip to get yourself over the bar? Even if it’s…

How to Start a Kip Swing from a Dead Hang

Video by Travis Ewart Sometimes you don’t have the advantage of the perfect height pull-up bar. You know the one – where you can hang and kip without your toes touching but you don’t have to jump too far to get there. When forced to…

Comparing Pull-Ups: Kipping vs Butterfly

Comparing Kipping Pull-Ups Written by Hunter Britt; Videos by Travis Ewart In the world of CrossFit, there are multiple ways to skin a cat when it comes to performing a kipping pull-up. Many of us have faced the challenge of transitioning from a standard kip to the butterfly pull-up. Often, when I am watching people…

Kipping Handstand Push-Ups: Tips for Competition

Video by Ricky Moore You might have noticed that we don’t usually program kipping handstand push-ups in our programs at Invictus. This is because we care about your cervical spine and because you can get much stronger doing the strict version anyway. But with the Open on the horizon,…

How to Connect Bar Muscle-Ups

Video by Travis Ewart The bar muscle-up is many-a-CrossFitter’s favorite movements! If you already have bar muscle-ups but are struggling to do more than one at a time, here are some tips to help you start stringing together multiple reps each set. Now, before you try to attempt this, you…

Gymnastics Drill: Target Reach Swing for Bar Movements

Video by Travis Ewart Invictus Gymnastics Coach, Travis Ewart, shares tips and this drill for perfecting your kip swing for bar muscle-ups, toes-to-bar, and pull-ups. The purpose of the drill is to finding that perfect, consistent position when you mount the bar to guide your feet into the…

Handstand Tip: Don’t Squeeze!

Video by Travis Ewart “Tight!” You hear that cue used when coaching pretty much every movement in the gym whether it be clenching the midline for the deadlift, pressing up on the bar when receiving the snatch, or when you’re inverted in the handstand…Wait, NOT the handstand too! Although it might…

How to Butterfly Chest-to-Bar Pull-Ups

Written by Travis Ewart I love checking the Invictus blog every night to see what the workout is for the next day. I don’t know what it is, but when I see that the workout has pull-ups or chest-to-bar pull-ups, I get very excited. I know it’s not the same…

Breaking Down Handstand Walks

Video by Travis Ewart In this video, Invictus Gymnastics Coach, Travis Ewart, breaks down handstand walks from hand placement to the kick-up and taking that first of many steps – he has tips for both beginners and competitive athletes to make sure you keep moving forward. For more drills and progressions…
Bar Muscle-Up Tips

Bar Muscle-Up Tips

Video by Travis Ewart Need some bar muscle-tips to try before the Open? In this video, Invictus Gymnastics Coach, Travis Ewart, breaks down bar muscle-ups from the kip to the turnover and even the drop-down into the next swing – he has tips for both beginners and competitive athletes to make sure…

Breaking Down the Handstand Push-Up

Video by Travis Ewart In this video, Invictus Gymnastics Coach, Travis Ewart, breaks down the HSPU from the set-up to tips for competitive athletes to make sure your reps count. For more drills and progressions and to get personal feedback from Coach Travis, join our Invictus Gymnastics online program. It…

3 Tips for Improving Your Toes to Bar

Video by Travis Ewart Invictus Gymnastics Coach, Travis Ewart, gives you three tips to improve your Toes to Bar starting with the “mount” to whether or not you should use straight or bent legs for the movement, depending on your personal anatomy and strengths. So if you…

Handstand Walk Progressions

Video by Travis Ewart Handstand walking can be a fun and impressive skill to master. Many athletes work for years to develop the skill, and yet still have not mastered it. When you are a novice handstand walker and see that handstand walks come up in the Open, it can be frustrating…

Wall Slides – A Fantastic Exercise

Video by Travis Ewart Wall Slides are a great shoulder mobility check to see where an athlete’s range of motion starts breaking down to improper form; it is also a fantastic exercise when applied to a rep scheme. Though the movement itself is relatively simple, it can become very…
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