{"id":1271,"date":"2016-06-01T05:51:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T04:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totalcoaching.com\/blog\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2016-05-31T20:41:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T19:41:48","slug":"how-to-do-a-human-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.totalcoaching.com\/blog\/how-to-do-a-human-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Do a Human Flag: Simple Steps to Teach Your Clients"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":1324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"

The \"human flag\" is an anti-gravity, jaw dropping, bicep-bursting feat of neuromuscular strength and skill that will humble even the strongest and impress everyone... even if they don\u2019t act impressed!<\/p>

The human flag, in a nutshell, requires suspending your body out horizontally from a pole or horizontal bars, using only your hands as the base of contact! It's quite the party trick, but can you actually teach your clients to do a human flag?<\/span><\/p>

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\"That\u2019s way too advanced. A human flag would be \u2018impossible\u2019 for my clients, and even for me!\"<\/strong><\/h3>

Is that what you're thinking? Well, everything is \"impossible\" until you do it for the first time! Please don\u2019t think that this is impossible for you or your clients. Difficult? Yes. But impossible? No!<\/p>

It personally took me 3 months to achieve the human flag<\/span> long enough to take a decent photo (our initial rules for how long you needed to be able to hold a movement before you could claim you could do it!). The \u201cstupid\u201d comments evolved into \u201cimpressive!\u201d Although, depending on your definition of stupid, you might still call a man hanging horizontally off a pole \u201cstupid!\u201d<\/p>

Don't always believe in fate but some things can't be explained! Impossible is nothing!! #motivation<\/a> #quotes<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/2AfHmfOQdA<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Ryan J (@RyanJacovides) May 5, 2016<\/a><\/blockquote>\n[tcb-script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"][\/tcb-script]<\/code><\/div>

Since that first human flag at the School of Calisthenics<\/a>, we\u2019ve been honing our techniques, understanding, and exercises. We used not just our own failures and practical journey towards a human flag, but also our understanding of exercise science, as Professional Strength & Conditioning coaches with Paralympic athletes. This has helped us to develop a progressive framework to teach the human flag, and other calisthenics movements, to anyone.<\/p>

At a workshop series we ran last year, we took a number of absolute beginners, potentially just like you and your clients, from zero to human flag heroes in only 7 weeks!<\/span> Even we were surprised at how quickly some of them developed. This video shows the 7-week transformation:<\/p>

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