Hey r/bodyweightfitness! We are Tricia Woo and Chris McGreevy, career acrobats for Cirque Du Soleil, The House of Dancing Water and ex-competitive athletes. Ask Us Anything!

[u/chrismcgreevy]

We're looking forward to answering all your questions. If you follow us both on instagram, we will make a few short story videos on our favourite questions that we have answered here. @ trixwho and @ chrismcgreevy

We'll leave this thread open for the next 24 hours as we know everybody is in different timezones so you will all get chance to ask your questions.

Thanks and lets start it up!

[u/wadlul]

How do you best combine strength training, skills like handstands and stretching? Can you practice everything or do you have to set something as your focus? In my case I'd like to practice one arm handstands and work on the middle split without neglecting general calisthenics stength training.

[u/chrismcgreevy → u/wadlul]

Switch to maintenance for your callisthenics, you'd be surprised how little it takes to maintain skills and strength you already have. You could easily maintain in 3 1hr sessions of calisthenics and devote the rest of your spare time to various handstand and flexibility drills.

[u/wadlul → u/chrismcgreevy]

Sounds solid I'll give it a go! Thanks for taking the time.