Handstand Push-Up Brotherhood - The How & Why Of 10k Handstand Push-Ups

Spoken monologue by a coach (sociable-sophisticated) reflecting on handstand push-up training, short (10–25 minute) high-density workouts, and the progressions and consistency required to reach high rep volumes (mentions aiming for three-on-the-minute, 90 reps, and a peer hitting 100 box reps). He explains the "Dense" method (a systematized EMOM-style approach), gives practical drills (bottom strength, partials, holds, burnouts), and prescribes benchmarks (10d10 dips as a strength indicator). The speaker emphasizes motivation, accountability (social posting, community), and applying training principles to business and larger projects; he references programs (Lean Countdown, Emergency Mass Maker) and physical locations/communities being built (Vanuatu, Montenegro, Bali, Mexico, Paraguay).
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10d10 means 10 sets of 10 dips performed on the minute (one set each minute).
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So for 10 minutes with a rep every 15 or 20 seconds. And then I got two. Second one was a bit shallow. Third one I didn't get lockout. I'd like to get three on the minute for 30 minutes, be 90 reps. We just saw Nico hit 100 reps off the box. These aren't as deep and so it's not matching young Nicholas the motion guy. But it took me a long time to be able to get one handstand push up. It really did. It was a huge thing for me to break through to being able to get consistent handstand push ups. And yeah, to be able to do this kind of workout, it really is, it is surreal to me. If you're at home, you're watching this, you're thinking like, oh, it's okay for him. How could I ever do that? That's how I felt for a long time. I mean, at least 20 years, 15 years in this. This was still a dream. It's quite a narrow hand position on that one. Moving my setup around, Bothering the mosquitoes, obviously in their house, Hanging out in the bottom. I don't know if I'm cooked. We'll see. I'll give it to the top of the next minute. Let me see if I can get one or two. But it doesn't take a lot of time. You imagine if you were doing this. The trick is to get to the point where you're strong enough to do a workout like this. If you're doing 10 minutes of this every five days, you're probably going to progress on this. If you were to, say, do a burnout set at the end, then you progress even more. So you go for like max push ups at the end or max piked handstand push ups. Can you see how that's going to get you to a place very few have ever been? The trick is to know the progressions. And the other main part is to stay motivated, stay connected to others who are going to push you. So you just consistently do that a little bit more. Start a YouTube channel, start an Instagram and use it as your own accountability. See if you can help one person. If you can help one person. If this helps one person, it's a video well made. If it helps you, let me know. So I'm banging out lots of these now. I probably did about 30 and 10 minutes. Clock showing 15, 27 now. I can't even imagine. I wouldn't even try this workout if it wasn't seeing Nico to 100 like, but if you can do 130 minutes. Maybe I can do 30. Maybe, maybe I can do 50. And just that little bit of doubt of like, maybe I can. What if I could? That's enough. Live in that little bit of doubt that. What if you could. What if you could build a business? What if you could make a million dollars? What if you could build a village? If you can entertain that fantasy, then you get out of bed each day with that little bit of doubt. There's going to be that side of you that says, no, you can't. That's okay. You need that little 1% chance that you can. So if you're watching this and thinking, how, how, how, how do I get started? I want to see you getting 10d10 on the dips. If you're able to get 10 by 10 on the dips, then you've got this 10d10 means it's on the minute. 10 sets of 10 dips. If you're getting 10d5, put up some of these strength standards, then you need to work on the skill standards as well. Skill standards for this work components of the movement, work some drills and you'll get. It took me three years to get a handstand. Do you care now that it took a long time for me to get a handstand? Would you care anyway? But it doesn't matter how long it takes. Eventually you get it and then you have it. Einstein was very late to speak, but then he used his words in such a way that people are still quoting him, that the ideas that he wrote and the ideas that he shared are remembered long after he passed. So it doesn't really matter how long it takes you to get there. What matters is that you get to something useful. What is that something useful for you? Is it inventing something like the Dense method? Dense method for me meant that I stopped injuring myself. I could get a test done in every session and see that I was improving. And I could be very time efficient with my sessions now. I actually designed it and thought about it for other people. I didn't think about it for myself. I thought about all the people going to mainstream gyms and wasting their time. Because it was. It was 2013, 2014, CrossFit had boomed. And I was like, yeah, CrossFit's cool, but it's crazy. It's chaos. It's not going to help the everyday. Joe. So, so dense is a version of that, the emom concept that CrossFit popularized, but then systemized and broken down and made really simple to progress. First. One rubbish Second one. Good, but I need to give myself a little break. I got 20 seconds. Get back into it. Aiming to go on the minute here. What like would be three on the minute. What I'm getting is 2ish and it's a bit gray whether some of these are real reps or not. So slightly out of the groove makes it heavier. I'm in practice. Practice makes progress. Progress is sacred. For sure. I'm getting progress out of this session. This is the second time I've had a go at lots of reps. I only did 10 minutes the first time. Coming up on 20 here. There are skill progressions that you can use. Get more strength in the bottom, bounces in the bottom, holding at the top, quarter reps at the top. Put all those little pieces together. If you're going to be an uncommon success. Mastermind, athletic, richer, smarter. You might as well build some athletic feats that are rare, that say something about you. If you're going to be in the gym, why just bench press when you could be doing this? I like bench press as well. So we're going to put together a workshop. If you've got this far, there's going to be a workshop about 10 minute workouts. We're in 10 minutes. You can get yourself to an elite level. I generally train for 10 minutes or 25 minutes, occasionally 50 minutes, but a lot of time it's 25 minute sessions, which means I get five minutes of three different strength movements. One for my legs, one for pulling, one for pushing. But then I'll fill in around that with ATG movements, things from the atg, zero grip work, even stretching on the end of those minutes. There's a number of different ways we can cut and slice, but it really doesn't take a long time. If you go 10 minutes super hard, like 60% of body weight or 60% of max, and get as many repetitions as you can in 10 minutes, you're cooked. That's plenty for the day. If you run as far as you can in 10 minutes, it's going to take you a week, two weeks to recover from that. It's not time that you're missing. It's logical progression, leaderboards. It's knowledge around it and community around it. When you have that community around you, okay, everyone's leveling up. Things are progressing. I'm going to see if I can progress. I'm going to see if I can be that guy on that thing. That's how it works in the professional sporting environment. It cannot be done alone. You cannot become an Olympic champion on your own. You need a coach, you need teammates, and you actually need decades of knowledge compiled together. And then someone thinks they're going to train themselves and they don't bother trying to understand those decades of knowledge. Or maybe they do and they watch some stuff on YouTube, but it's the stuff that gets the most views. Doesn't necessarily mean that it's the best stuff. Like, does mainstream media ring any bells? The things that are being watched the most aren't necessarily the most valuable. And so I get it. Like for the everyday man wanting to get to the gym and do well, it's not, it's not necessarily as simple as it could be, should be, or would be. I've solved that. So much so that I've moved on to focusing on using the same innovation in business. Because when you use dents and when you use range and when you use expansion method, there's no mystery in training anymore. And even for skill development, you know, we've got guys five ball juggling, juggling with both feet and doing handstands. Like any skill, any sport, we can do it better. And this has been applied to golf and tennis and every professional sport. And to be honest, it doesn't interest me. Like, there's a bigger problem in the world today than how to coach world champions in, in sports. I did that and it's fun, but for you to be free, you have to do it in business. And so that's why I've invented things like the Disciplined Action Body Brotherhood and the Future Expander. And I'm applying my creative faculty, the divine intelligence that we all have access to, the divine spark. I'm applying it to solve business challenges more so now because I feel like it's pretty much done as far as the training side of things. There's always more to learn and it's fun to tweak things. And there's lots of things that I can't explain that other scientists and PhDs can, can talk about. But as far as just practically getting excellent results with body composition, with strength, with stamina, with stretching, all that stuff is, is done. We've got beautiful diets. We're doing the Lean Countdown diet this month. Now, I don't really need to do it, but I want men in my crew to be rolling a little bit leaner. And so I'm doing it with them. I'm getting as veiny as I can be so that I can encourage some others. You've got 5, 10, 20 bounds to lose to drop them so we've got the Lean Countdown diet, we've got Emergency Mass Maker, we've got men putting on mass quite quickly. The physical transformation is a valuable one because in a world of lots of uncertainty and sort of false gurus and all sorts of things, you know, the credentials are there for me on the athletic side, coaching world champion players, athletes, having mentored and coached hundreds of different coaches, the results are there. In business, it's micro, you know, micro stuff. I've got to $50,000 a month in a bunch of different businesses, but I only started a business 10 years ago where I got obsessed about training 25 years ago and they really started to take business super seriously. When I came across the money mentor, Paul, who introduced me to a deeper understanding of what it is to make money and to understand the making of money in business and really treat that as an art form, that only really started to happen for me in 2020. So the best place to start is with the physicality because there's no denying that. There's no denying the results, testimonials, athletes that I worked with. There's a reason the highest profile rugby player in the world did a couple of private camps with me and, you know, worked one to one with Ben Patrick for years before he got on Joe Rogan and such. I don't claim they were great men in themselves. I had the opportunity to partner with them and that's what I love doing, is partnering with guys with ambition to do great things. And so, yeah, that's been done on the athletic side and we need to continue that journey, start with that athletics transformation. But ideally we go further, we solve some bigger stuff so that we can build villages, build schools, organize things around food supply. There's no reason we should have poisons in our food and water and air. Systematically, we can move away from that, we can move to the highest quality. I'm personally moving myself to a location that is pristine because if I set that example, then others will consider and question, well, should I persist in an environment where the quality of the air and the water and the food is being systematically declined? These are decisions that we all have to make and for the most part, the economical component of it and the familiar part of it, staying around family is a reason why many don't make moves towards what they really value. But if I'm a leader, if I'm a role model, which I aim to be at least for myself and for my children, then I need to be true to that and move towards where things have been done in ways that I value more now. There's no perfect place, there's no perfect people, but there are higher standards. And so if we move towards these higher standards athletically, that's a beautiful thing. If we move towards higher standards in business, that's a beautiful thing. And then if we can get beyond that even, and start thinking about some of the bigger challenges of what are we doing with our food supply, what are we doing with water, what are we doing with the education system, you know, how are we building families? What would the happiest environment for a family, the best environment for a wife and for children? What does that look like? And that's what I'm interested in innovating on now. But dense is where we start. Range needs to be considered. Optimizing the diet, body composition. And if you can show that you can do those things, then that's. That says a lot to me. If you can juggle, if you can do handstands, if you can stretch, if you've got ideal body composition, if you're able to get your 10D, 10 dips, clearly you have some discipline and some control over what you do with your physical body every day. And that's a great place to start. I think civilizations have been built on that discipline and maybe broken on the lack of that discipline. So that's our starting point. I'd love to hear where you're at. What are you thinking about where the world's going? There's all kinds of predictions coming up for what's going to happen before the next elections. Love to hear your thoughts. I'd love to hear your plans. Let's work together, build the best that we can. There's uncertainty, but it's a beautiful time to be alive. There's a lot of opportunity and we can do great things, so we should do those great things. And if there's opposing energies and opposing forces that stop us from doing some of those things, well, so be it. But we should be playing our best up until that point and, and beyond it as well. What would your best look like? Love to have a conversation with you about that. If you can see that these are the kind of conversations that you need to have and you want to be around hundreds of other men who've made these kinds of decisions. We're building physical locations. Vanuatu, Montenegro, New ones coming up. Mexico, Paraguay. We've got new location going in next to Bali Time Chamber in Bali. I'm doing my best. I'm sure you're doing your best as well. My best can be much better. I'm sure your best can be much better as well. Let's show it with the handstand push ups. Show it with the physical progression, and then, yeah, let's have these bigger conversations and see what we can build.










