1-legged burpees

Here's a fun one for building muscle, burning fat, getting the heart and lungs going, building speed and explosiveness, getting your legs and butt in shape, and more. Use it in repetitions, in timed sets, as part of a circuit. It's an awesome one. The 1-legged burpee.

Working the Straddle L-sit Hold

Final set of straddle L-sit holds from last night's training. Working on keeping strong through the legs, feet and toes, making sure the legs aren't touching the arms, and getting the legs higher and higher. Feeling pretty good.

Some handstand push ups on the push up bars wih a 20 pound weight vest

Here's the last set of a super set (which in included handstand push ups and 1-arm pull-ups) from last night's training. Did them against the wall while balancing on the push up bars. Wore a 20 pound weight vest. They felt really good and strong, but I should have gone a little deeper.

My Name's Brett Stepan and I'm a rings addict

How to make your ankles feel like a million dollars

Here's a good mixture of joint mobility, dynamic stretches and strength work to help make your ankles feel like a million dollars. Great for a warm up or a cool down. I hope you like these.

Fliippy and fun combo on the rings: A different view:

Here's another view of the final set of this fun little combo on the gymnastics rings. Training and practicing like this is a blast.

A fun flippy combo on the gymnastics rings

During my morning practice today I decided to work on a fun little combination movements on the gymnastics rings. My first time attempting something like this, here's the second to the last set of the combo. It consists of hang to inverted hand, pike down to German hang, pull up to top pull up position with an L/V-sit, lower to an L/V-sit hang. Very fun to practice.