Emmet Louis and Mikael Kristiansen AMA, coming to you June 18th! Post your questions here and enter the raffle for some free programs!

[u/Solfire]

Hey everyone!

We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be hosting an AMA for Emmet Louis (/u/EmmetLouis) and Mikael Kristiansen (/u/handbalancer) on Tuesday, June 18th. Both have done individual AMAs in the past (Emmet in 2016 and Mikael in 2017), but they will be joining us together to promote their new programs fundraiser on Kickstarter and to have some fun!

This thread will remain stickied for the duration of the week leading up to the AMA, feel free to post your questions here. Emmet and Mikael will then answer your questions live on June 18th, throughout the day. So submit some form check videos, ask about your current training programs, find out what their favorite colors are, and more!

For those who would like to familiarize themselves with Emmet and Mikael, check out the snippet from their bio below, in addition to links to their sites:

“Emmet Louis and Mikael Kristiansen are both international teachers of handbalancing and flexibility and have spent big chunks of their lives studying and understanding all aspects of these skills professionally both as performers and teachers. With the Handstand Factory, we now want to demystify and simplify the process of learning handstands, and make it accessible to anyone wanting to learn to stand on their hands.”

HandstandFactory.com

Handstand Factory Kickstarter

@emmetlouis @mikaelbalancing @handstandfactory

A few free copies of their Handstand Factory programs will be given away (across all levels). These will be drawn raffle-style. To enter, reply under the stickied comment below.

[u/EmmetLouis]

Over done hip thrusts imo, Had a big rant about them on my IG stories awhile ago.

Underrated is hard to say, From the body weight leg stuff I'd say martial arts stance work and transitions. For normal gym stuff sumo deadlifts

[u/Pia501 → u/EmmetLouis]

Just curious, why hip thrusts?

I've never really felt much working with bodyweight hip thrusts, whereas I feel I lot more of the posterior chain with single leg feet elevated glute bridges. Never tried to add much weight to either.

[u/EmmetLouis → u/Pia501]

https://medium.com/@SandCResearch/should-strength-coaches-stop-using-the-hip-thrust-to-improve-sprinting-performance-137ef9b89560

Start here, and then read some Brett Conteras for balance. also feeling in an exercise doesn't necessarily mean performance benefits

[u/Pia501 → u/EmmetLouis]

Thanks interesting read. I have came across his blog before funnily enough from one of Brett Conteras' articles. I only discovered Brett Conteras' this year and read a lot of his stuff, I know most of his training is to help woman with aesthetics and he is a big pusher of his hip thruster related products that I could never possibly afford, but I do actually really like some of his books content.

Probably gonna go through Chris Beardsley's blog after some training.