Results For Category: "Strength & Conditioning"

The Perfect Posture

Chances are we all have an idea in our minds of what constitutes good posture. And, chances are, many of those ideas…

Neck and Shoulder Pain? The answer may be in your collarbones

Do your neck and shoulders feel tight? Does your ‘knot gremlin‘ have a name? Are you constantly looking for or getting a…

Are your shoulders ready for hanging shrugs?

The following builds on a recent online discussion about the hanging shoulder shrug warm-up exercise. It began—as many things do—with a post…

Building a Strong Foundation for Your Straddle Inversions

To build off one of our earlier Instagram posts, I want to provide more information for building a strong foundation for your…

How To Build Your Own Functional Strength Workout

So here we are. For a while now, we’ve been having an extended conversation about circus arts training and ideas surrounding how…

Two (un)common ways to improve your flexibility

In the quest to become more flexible, people often focus on reducing the tension in their muscles. And, ideally, they are breathing…

Dear Bodybuilding, thanks for everything. We’ll take it from here.

Are you doing bodybuilding workouts? Bodybuilding has touched nearly every corner of the fitness world. In fact, bodybuilding is largely responsible for…

Developing Power for Circus Arts

As circus artists, we probably don’t think of power as something we need, but there are actually a lot of power moves…

Nutrition for Circus (and the rest of life)

What you eat makes a difference in how your body feels and how it performs. It makes a difference in terms of…

How To Enjoy Circus Even More…By Sleeping

Let’s say—hypothetically—that you really like circus. Perhaps you like it so much that you’re training more than once per week. And you’ve…