First off, this blog has been a great resource for me on my fitness journey. So thanks for that!

Secondly, I think someone mentioned this in an other post about shoulder workouts, but I must say I can’t recommend handstand push-ups enough when it comes to a great compound workout for the shoulders.

A few months ago I realized I was avoiding workouts because I didn’t have time to get to the gym. So I developed a routine that involved exercises I could do easily at home. A gymnast friend recommended handstand pushups as a good upper-body exercise. Now I’m the kind of guy who can’t even do a kartwheel, so I didn’t think this would work for me, but I gave it a try anyway. Every workout I would throw myself up against the wall and try to lower my head to the ground without collapsing on the floor. At first it sucked, but a couple of weeks later I was popping out 5 rep sets pretty comfortably. I’m what you would call a hard gainer, most specifically when it comes to my shoulders and pecs, and for the first time in my life I started to develop the kind of developed, strong upper body shape I’d always tried to achieve. My arms also got huge thanks to their secondary role in lifting my entire bodyweight up and down for multiple reps. The combination of pullups and handstand pushups has done more for my physical transformation than any other exercises I could care to name. Sure it’s scary to hang out upside down with nothing but your arms between you and a concussion, but it gets great results.

Anyway, thanks again for the info you make available on this blog. I’ll keep reading.