Road to Human Flag | Weeks 1-3 | Calisthenics Progress Vlog

Follow my journey as I learn the human flag!

As you may already know, I had a motorbike accident which left me unable to calisthenics for 8 months. As a consequence, I lost all the skills I worked so hard to get – including the human flag. But now that I have been working out and training calisthenics for the last 10 months, I feel like I am finally ready to start training the human flag again!

This “road to” video series will record my journey as I learn the human flag. You will see how I go about learning this skill, so that you can incorporate some of these training methods into your own training if you desire. I will also be sharing some really valuable workout tips, so I suggest you watch the whole video because I drop little nuggets of gold along the way that will really help you accelerate your progress with your calisthenics training.

It’s no secret: the human flag is a difficult calisthenics skill to achieve. It takes a lot of core and upper body strength to pull off. Specifically, it involves a lot of shoulder, lat, oblique, abdominal, and lower back strength to perform. But the human flag is not as hard as it looks. In fact, I’d say it’s easier than the front lever. However, it still requires a tremendous amount of strength, so it’s best to master the fundamental calisthenics skills (push ups, pull ups, and dips) and some advanced calisthenics skills (like the muscle up and one leg front lever) before you attempt the human flag.

Hope you enjoy the video, and happy training!

[alexwilson]

Best video explaining how to do handstand thank you mate

[SuprEmpth]

Also great demonstration to the assisted exercises to help build the muscles up!

[shabirvalli]

Ashton- trust me-I feel a deep sense of gratitude in you taking the time to reveal your road to perfection-inspiring- all your videos are and thanks a million👍

[danielcharbonneau]

We saw the difference since week 3...good luck Ashton!

[mimab]

Thank you for such an informative video, I have been practicing the Human Flag on the stall bars but I have been inconsistent!! This is just what I needed. 😊😊😊

[ebonyrose]

Great video, thanks. I training for this right now.

[chriscox]

Is so weird I could hold the tuck front lever longer than tuck human flag and also one side of my human flag is stronger other side weaker.

[hahoang]

I like to comment Ashton, reason you progress so fast is because u stronger in bodyweight strength than most weighted strength! That is difficult and harder to archived

[SuprEmpth]

There’s a video I believe it’s called Human Flag in 21 days. Some of his exercises are from the school of calisthenics. Check those exercises out that may help you to progress but you’re doing well.