Welcome to Single Arm Strength: A 4 week self paced program going into the details of single arm strength for aerial.

We’ll be learning the fundamentals, and looking at building strength and control for specific skills like meathooks and single arm inverts, as well as programming and pre-hab for healthy shoulders. This program is designed to give you the tools to work towards safely and progressively building single arm strength specifically for your aerial, focusing on the fundamentals, push as well as pull, and skill specific strength drills.

We’ll be learning the following:

  • How to efficiently warm up your shoulders, scpaular and back for single arm strength training

  • How to assess your current level of strength, and what specifically needs focus for you to improve your single arm strength

  • Straight arm and bent arm single arm strength drills

  • Single arm strength for meathooks and single arm inverts

  • How to modify strength drills

  • Shoulder and scapular prehab to ensure healthy and well functioning joints, muscles and connective tissue

  • Programming single arm strength training into your aerial practice

Week 1 - Single Arm Strength Fundamentals 

In week 1 we will break down the fundamentals of single arm strength, and how to develop it in a safe and progressive way. We’ll look at the very basics of single arm pushing and pulling, and how to build on this. We’ll also go over shoulder and scapular health, and how to take care of these areas of your body while training them under more load.

Week 2 - Single Arm Hangs and Meathooks Foundations

In week 2 we’ll focus single arm hanging and start looking at the foundations of meathooks. We’ll cover meathook technique in detail. We’ll look at conditioning specifically for single arm hanging and how to build better grip strength as well. 

Week 3 - Building Meathooks

In week 3 we’ll continue building on our meathooks and looking at the next set of drills to work towards a full meathook. We’ll cover advanced meathook variations and advanced single arm hangs. 

Week 4 - Single Arm Invert Foundations

In week 4 we’ll dive into more complex single arm movements. We’ll look at how to work towards single arm inverts with movements like nutcrackers, and how to scale drills based on your current level of strength. We’ll look at using fun but challenging conditioning drills. This will also help anyone who is working towards single arm flares.

Week 5 - Building Single Arm Inverts  

In week 5 we’ll continue training single arm inverts looking at how to travel up and not just moving through the negative. We’ll also look at how straight arm invert drills can be adapted for single arm inverts, and how to develop strength in a safe progressive way for this skill. 

Week 6 - Single Arm Push And Prehab

In week 6 we’ll go over some single arm pushing movements and prehab drills that will support our shoulders and elbows to support the demand of single arm strength training. 

Here’s what each week of the program will cover.

Who this program is for:

- Aerialists who want to build more single arm strength, and generally prioritise strength training

- Aerialists who want to learn more about how to build single arm strength in an accessible and safe way

- Aerialists who are working towards skills like meathooks, single arm flares or inverts, and want more tools to help them on their way

Pre-requisites:

This is for intermediate and above. To get the most out of these classes you’ll need to be able to invert in the air with bent arms at least a few times within an hour long aerial class. If you’re unsure whether these classes are right for your current level, drop me an email.

What you’ll need:

Something you can hang from e.g. a pull up bar, rings, aerial apparatus. A small amount of floor space to train in. A yoga mat would be useful for a bit of extra comfort. You’ll also need two yoga blocks and a lightweight resistance band

If you have any questions, please email info@veritybcoaching.com

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