Human flag for kids

Today's human flag is proudly brought to you by my son.   

My son doing human flag

While his form is not perfect yet, he is training, and he is making great progress.  

While I am very impressed by what he can do, and while it is even more impressive that so few adults in this country will ever be able to do the human flag, I am mostly proud of him for putting in the work.

I am very proud of him for putting in the effort, I am proud of him for sticking at it for so long, I am proud of him for keeping this up even when it was hard and when he wasn't in the mood, and I am proud that even though he knew how difficult this would be he still decided to train towards it.  

While I helped him train, the biggest improvement he makes is when he gets a spare moment through the day and goes down to the monkey bars to put in a few minutes of training.  Training multiple times a day is the best way to improve.

Anyone can shift a heavy weight, anyone can 'work out', but not everyone has what it takes to train long enough and hard enough to be able to do this.  I am proud of him, and he is proud of himself.

We hope this inspires you to do some strength training.