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Finger Press to Strengthen Your Handstand Holds

Video by Travis Ewart (Originally Published on June 16, 2016) Forearm strength may be one of the most overlooked necessities in holding a handstand. Fear of tipping over in a handstand may be the most frightening thought for many people, and it may be happening more often then…

Don’t Bird Peck Your Ring Dips!

Video by Travis Ewart Invictus Gymnastics coach Travis Ewart demonstrates the correct and incorrect way to do a ring dip and also provides some scaling options so that you can focus on keeping an upright torso and building strength in this vertical pressing movement instead of turning it into…

Butterfly 4-Step

Video by Travis Ewart As smooth and amazing as butterfly pull-ups can look, it can be really frustrating trying to figure out the rhythm that places your moving body in harmony with the pull-up to create a smooth and effective set of butterfly pull-ups. If you are like many athletes, you have experienced…
Invictus Athlete does a bar muscle-up without any chicken wing present!

How to Eliminate the Bar Muscle-Up Chicken Wing

Video by Travis Ewart The dreaded bar muscle-up chicken wing, looking like a chicken trying to climb over an electric fence. Not only does it look silly, it is highly inefficient and will cause you to fatigue on not only your bar muscle-ups, but any other movement…

Snap Pull Drill for Ring Muscle-Ups

Video by Travis Ewart Ring muscle-ups seem very complicated to the untrained eye. There is a lot of mystery behind this movement, and with my next few blogs we are going to break the muscle-up apart, piece by piece. What is a “snap pull”? Sounds kind of silly, but…

A Pure Gymnast’s Perspective on Owning Your Movement

Podcast by Misbah Haque, The Airborne Mind Show Travis Ewart, Invictus Gymnastics Coach, joins us today for a pretty entertaining conversation. He is a USA Gymnastics Coaching professional who has worked with 4-year-olds all the way to top Games athletes. The perspective you’re about to hear is…

The 3 Most Important Hand Positions for Successful Handstand Work

Video by Travis Ewart Static handstands, handstand push-ups and handstand walking may all have a handstand in common, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they are supposed to be performed the same way. Hand positions during handstands can make or break the movement as the…

How to Kick to a Handstand Against the Wall

Video by Travis Ewart Gymnastics skills may be some of the most daunting movements in CrossFit. Learning how to scale movements to create a comforting learning environment instead of “either do it or don’t” is why we created Invictus Gymnastics, an online supplementary program to carry…

Drill for the Bar Muscle-Up Swing – The Air Chair Swing

Video by Travis Ewart Breaking down complicated movements is an absolutely necessary step to improving the finer details of a skill. The bar muscle-up can be a difficult movement for even the most seasoned of athletes, leading to “chicken winging” or the feeling of…

Do Not Skip Your Shoulder Warm-Up! Do THIS Instead

Written by Michele Vieux It’s really easy to skip a warm-up on a because it’s “just shoulder press” and “we are starting light”. However I highly recommend that you DO warm-up by spending your time doing simple mobility and activation drills for the thoracic, shoulders and…

The Machine and the Operator

Written by Travis Ewart Kids and adults alike can have a natural ability to learn difficult and complicated skills in the amount of time it takes to drive a lesser talented athlete absolutely crazy. Sometimes these seemingly lucky individuals appear to be blessed with the easy road in life, gathering…

Upper Anterior Chain Opener: The Banded Scarecrow

Video by Travis Ewart Invictus Athlete gymnastics coach Travis Ewart describes and demonstrates the Band-Assisted Upper Anterior Chain Opener, more easily referred to as “Banded Scarecrows”. With pushing and pressing comes a tightened Upper Anterior Chain, and to help alleviate some of this tension we bring you the…

Handstand Push-Up Negatives Explained

Video by Travis Ewart Invictus Athlete gymnastics coach Travis Ewart discusses and demonstrates Handstand Push-Up Negatives, both to a deficit and without a deficit. Handstand Push-Ups can be somewhat dangerous if an athlete is unprepared physically to hold their own body weight while in an inverted position, as they may lose…
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