How A Martial Artist FINALLY Solved His Gym Problem (4-Second Handstand in 90 Days!) – Complete Guide 2025
📖 Read Time: 8 Minutes | 🎯 Story: Real Transformation | 💪 Focus: Home Training Success | 📅 Updated: January 2025
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A black belt martial artist with a demanding job cracked the code to consistent home training. Here’s how he went from 8 months of ZERO exercise to achieving a 4-second handstand…
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🥋 Meet Andrew: The Martial Artist Who Lost His Way
❌ Sound Familiar?
Andrew was a lifelong martial artist who got a new, busy job and then found it was hard to make it to the gym. 🥋
He needed a way of working out that he could do at home in the early morning. So, he started researching calisthenics information. Looking at blogs, articles, videos.
Result? Information overload and ZERO progress.
💪 Calisthenics and working out is important to him because it helps him relieve stress, and he wants to be healthy so that he has the energy to go to work and make money for his family for years to come.
He stumbled upon The Movement Athlete Academy and gave it a go because it’s free and looks promising.
⚡️ The Breakthrough Moment
He immediately fell in love with the app. It’s because he doesn’t have to spend any time or energy thinking up a workout. He gets a sense of achievement, fulfillment, and reward from working out and making progress – like being able to do a handstand for 4 seconds, when before he couldn’t do it at all.
🏆 Now, his fitness journey is secured for years to come with the genuine investment he made for his body.
Here’s his complete transformation story…
❌ PROBLEM #1: The Consistency Killer
“I was still going to the gym, but it was like fits and starts. And I still, so nothing. I was really struggling to get into a routine and habit. And so I was going in fits and starts.”
Andrew tried to build a habit to go to the gym, but no matter how hard he tries, he ends up training inconsistently. This lead to very little to almost non-existent gains.
It might be a personal preference but weightlifting does not make him chase or achieve something in his fitness journey. It was just about adding numbers in the weight room.
“…it didn’t really feel like I was doing anything that was kind of making me go towards something.”
❌ PROBLEM #2: Training Without Purpose
“But if I’m just working out kind of aimlessly, it doesn’t bring me any kind of sense of achievement or kind of fulfillment. So I think just during that period of time, I’m not doing anything to maintain a level of fitness. It just didn’t feel great.”
He was also training inconsistently because there was no clear direction he is headed in his fitness journey. Weightlifting doesn’t give you a sense of achievement that he was looking for.
Because of this aimless and inconsistent training, he was headed nowhere. He didn’t feel healthy and fit like he was planning to be.
Because of this, he let go weightlifting and focused on training martial arts. There, his passion for fitness ignited and he lead an active lifestyle.
❌ PROBLEM #3: When Life Gets In The Way
“And also I wanted to, as I was getting older, I wanted to kind of maintain a level of fitness so that I could continue to work and not be kind of, you know, unhealthy.”
After his failed weightlifting attempt, Andrew has been practicing martial arts for the longest time. He is a black belter in kickboxing and then continued with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for three years. You can say he lived a very active lifestyle.
But a change in his work situation led him to 8 months of inactivity. No exercise at all.
At the end of the year, he decided to make a change in his lifestyle. He sat down and listed goals that he wanted to achieve. One of his goals is as mentioned above; to maintain his health as the years go by.
Nothing feels better than staying healthy, mobile, and strong for years to come. Time can knock on your door another day.
🔍 The Search For A REAL Solution
“I wanted to get back into exercise and I enjoy doing exercise. I like new things and this was a new thing and helped me to achieve my goals whilst also not taking up a huge amount of time or requiring me to go to the gym.”
Andrew needed a fitness approach that is very accessible other than being fun and effective. Accessible, meaning training shouldn’t be confined in the gym. Training also shouldn’t take so much of your time that it’s impossible to incorporate it into your already busy schedule.
After tons of research, he realized that calisthenics is the way to go. He searched the world wide web for the perfect partner for his fitness journey.
🚧 The Information Overload Trap
“And I knew there were progression steps to get you to the point where you can do like a pistol squat or a one-armed push-up. So I had looked around. I was reading lots of different blogs and stuff around and trying to put together a program for myself.”
Unfortunately, having tons of information on the internet could also be a double-edged sword. On one hand, you have access to tons of information. On the other, you have TONS of information.
Information on the internet is so vast that there’s a lot of false, and/or contradicting information out there.
Andrew realized that building his own effective and efficient program with all the data is difficult and very time consuming.
He needed to find another way to train calisthenics. Building his own program isn’t an option for him.
💡 The Game-Changing Discovery
“…because the app was free, I just thought, ‘*** it. I’ll just download it and try it.’ And that’s how it started. I didn’t really try any other apps.”
Andrew came across with The Movement Athlete Academy website. He found it interesting. The provided information about the app was sound and looks promising. And since it offers a 7-day free trial, Andrew went for it!
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🔒 Why Andrew Trusted The Movement Athlete
“To me, like I said, I don’t really trust work out apps on the play store because they would look a bit dodgy. Whereas the website just had a bit more information. It sounded like the people from the company knew what they were talking about. It seemed quite structured in the approach, so that’s why I chose it.”
Let’s be honest – a lot of the fitness apps out there are a bit sketchy, a bit dodgy. 🙁
There’s tons of workout apps, calisthenics or whatever form you can think of, in the app store. Like the tons of misinformation on the internet, there are also tons of ineffective (to say the least) apps available. Not The Movement Athlete Academy.
Just from visiting the site, Andrew could already see the credibility of the app. The Movement Athlete’s information is well presented and backed up with testimonials from real individuals experiencing huge and real changes in their lives and fitness journey thanks to the app.
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🎯 Andrew’s Life-Changing Results
Going back, Andrew wanted to have a healthy, strong and mobile body for the rest of his life. He found The Movement Athlete to help him in his fitness journey.
Now, Andrew is experiencing these amazing benefits:
🔥 #1: Zero-Thinking Convenience
“A really easy way of, it’s a really easy, lazy way of having a routine that you can do at home.”
Calisthenics, in its essence, is very accessible and can be done at the comforts of your own home. Andrew loves this!
Since you don’t need much equipment you’re good to go anywhere. There are some equipment you can use to maximize your training but all are very affordable. Heck, you can even improvise and find alternatives for the equipment!
There’s no need to go to the gym. Your gym is your environment. Train anywhere you would like to like Andrew.
🤸♀️ #2: Real Achievement & Progress
“There’s a sense of reward when I did a handstand this morning for like four seconds. And you know, I’d not done it before for that amount of time. So it makes me feel a sense of achievement.”
Andrew now fulfilled what he felt was lacking in weightlifting: a sense of achievement.
Achievements in Calisthenics Andrew’s talking about are the skills you can learn in the discipline. These skills require much of your time and effort to learn. There’s a lot of technique, strength, balance, mobility, endurance involved. That’s why learning a skill gives you a sense of achievement.
The achievement could also translate to more motivation to train and enjoying the process as you go through your own journey.
“I’ve always believed that doing exercise has a huge, has a big benefit towards your mental health. And your ability to manage stress.”
When your body’s healthy, your body can function optimally that even your brain can function in its full capacity. You’ll be in a better state of mind because of the confidence you get from training.
💯 #3: Completely Stress-Free Training
Don’t you just hate it when you tried so hard to make a program of you own then only end up not getting the results you wanted? Same thing with Andrew. Nobody like the inconvenience and failure.
But that now is a problem of yesterday for Andrew.
“So, to have an app will just it for me is great. I mean that saves me hours and hours and hours of time, of research, of reading blogs, reading articles, of trying to put down a program, it not working out, me experimenting with things.”
You’ll be guided with discipline-experts’ inputs through the app. All of the relevant, important and science-based information are already gathered for you.
The app saves you so much time that you just need to go to the app, open the app, then you’re good to go.
📌 Andrew’s Life-Changing Advice
“With a young family, I want to make sure that I can continue to be able to, as I get older, be in a state where I can go to work and earn money. And keel over at 55 with a heart attack because I’ve shoved my chips in my mouth for the last ten years. You know, so that’s being healthy and being fit, it just has a positive impact on your mindset, how you feel about yourself, how you’re able to physically get through life. So that for me is really important.”
Movement and training aren’t just for sports or for a specific discipline. It’s for your overall health so you can continue to function and care for your family even with age.
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💪 Real Success Story
“I was struggling with gym consistency and aimless training for years. The Movement Athlete gave me a stress-free way to train at home without thinking about program design. Now I can hold a handstand for 4 seconds and have the emotional payoff I was missing. It’s like a semi-addiction in the best way – I feel amazing after every workout and it makes my whole day better.”
— Andrew, Martial Artist & Movement Athlete
Home training • Skill progression • Stress relief