The Bodyweight Series

Textbook progressions work… until they don't. Four workshops covering the real reasons female calisthenics athletes plateau. And what to actually do about it.

COACH EDITION · ATHLETE EDITION · MELBOURNE 2026

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21 JUNE

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4

WEEKENDS

90 min

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2

EDITIONS PER DATE

The problem isn't effort. It's what you're being taught to do with it.

— Why this exists

"Your female athlete isn't failing the program. The program just doesn't know enough about her yet."

Women's bodyweight strength has a specific set of variables that most progressive overload models don't account for. Hormonal load cycling, the strength demands that differ by skill, movement background, training age - these aren't edge cases. They're the norm. And they're why a female athlete can train consistently, follow a solid programme, and still hit the same wall every few months.

Standard progressions aren't wrong. They're incomplete. And modifications are just harder versions of the same incomplete approach.

These workshops teach:

development techniques built specifically around how female athletes actually adapt.
Why plateaus happen at the physiological level.
How to break through them using complexity based scaling rather than load or volume alone.

Applicable whether you're the athlete hitting the wall, or the coach watching it happen while running out of answers.

— The series

Four Disciplines. One Methodology.

Sunday 21 June

Handbalancing

Sunday 28 June

Pull Ups & Muscle Ups

Sunday 5th July

Levers & Statics

Sunday 12th July

Mobility

21 June 2026 · Weekend 1

Handbalancing

If you're still chasing your first freestanding hold, or you have it but can't push past where you are - both problems have the same root.

Handbalancing is a strength skill, and most programmes treat it like a balance skill. While men can accumulate time on their hands and refine from there - that approach works when you already have a solid shoulder foundation. Most women, particularly those who started training as adults, don't. Without deliberate strength development running alongside the skill work, progress stalls. This workshop covers what that shoulder development actually looks like, how to programme strength alongside skill work, and how to account for the variables that change the equation (i.e: movement background, training history, natural strength baseline)

28 June 2026 · Weekend 2

Pull Ups & Muscle Ups

If you're still working towards your first pull up / muscle up, or you have them but haven't added a rep in months - the approach to both lives in the same place.

First pull up: the limiting factor is almost never what people think. Grip, endurance, capacity - these aren't the gap. The gap is specific strength that hasn't been developed in the right sequence. We cover what that sequence looks like and how to build toward the pull up in a way that actually lands.

Plateau: when the body has fully adapted to a movement, it stops recruiting the way it used to. Adding more reps or load to the same pattern keeps you in the same place - your system already knows how to handle it. What breaks a pull up plateau isn't just more pull ups with bands. It's introducing enough novelty elsewhere that the nervous system has to recruit, stabilise, and sequence differently.

This is why the answer to a pull up / muscle up plateau is almost never yet another pull variation.

5 July 2026 · Weekend 3

Levers & Statics

Straight arm strength demands more from the shoulder blades than almost any other bodyweight skill - the larger muscle groups can't cover for what's missing the way they can in bent arm work. Women stall on levers, or struggle to access them at all, for two reasons: programming that doesn't match the demand, and insufficient intelligent exposure to load through the shoulder girdle.

The same plateau mechanics from the pull up workshop apply here - wrong complexity, narrow lane, system fully adapted - but the entry point is different because the prerequisite strength is different. This workshop covers what shoulder blade recruitment and scapula stabilisation actually needs to look like, how to programme load exposure intelligently, and how to build the lever from the right foundation rather than grinding progressions that aren't addressing the actual gap.

12 July 2026 · Weekend 4

Mobility

If your mobility is the thing everyone keeps telling you to work on, or you have it on the floor but lose it the moment you're under load — both problems have the same root.

Passive flexibility doesn't transfer to skill. A deep squat on the ground and a deep squat under tension are not the same thing, and training one doesn't develop the other. Most women in bodyweight strength are borrowing range they don't actually own yet — and it shows up as a cap on every other skill in their training. This workshop works through mobility as a strength quality, maps where your range is active versus where it's passive tissue you're pulling from, and identifies the specific gaps that are limiting your skill acquisition across handbalancing, pulling, and lever work.

This is why mobility isn't a separate category. It's the foundation everything else is built on.

— How it works

90 minutes. Every discipline runs the same way.

Coach Edition — 9:00am

Development techniques, plateau mechanics, and complexity based scaling methods - taught as a framework you can apply to your female athletes immediately. You leave with broader knowledge and a different way of seeing what's happening in your sessions.

Athlete Edition — 11.30am

Hands on coaching from Axis certified coaches. The same content coaches just covered, applied in real time on real athletes. If you're a coach, this is your practical where you experience the methodology makes sense in the actual physiology.

Women Specific

Every technique, every progression, every example in this series is built around how female athletes actually adapt. no scaled down modifications of the same exercise. Built for women from the ground up.

— Who this is for

Two tracks. Same room.

ATHLETE EDITION

You're training consistently and your progress has stalled

You've been given progressions that work on paper but don't seem to work on you

You want to understand what's actually limiting you, not just get handed another drill

You're training for Gravity Games 2026 and want to know your specific gaps before competition prep starts

COACH EDITION

Your female athletes are hitting walls you can't fully explain with standard progression logic

You know modifications aren't the same as real scaling but you haven't had a framework for the difference

You want development tools built specifically for women - not a general template with adjustments

You're curious about Axis Theory and want to experience the methodology

— PRICING

Choose your track

Workshops are capped - priority goes to full series registrations.

ATHLETE - SINGLE SESSION

$50

One 90 minute athlete workshop

ATHLETE - FULL SERIES

$150

All four athlete workshops

COACH - FULL SERIES

$320**

90 min coach framework session + 90 minute Athlete Practical

Axis Theory methodology notes

**COACH EDITION Workshops available as single entry.

— Questions

FAQs

No. Each workshop is self contained and diagnostic in its own right. That said, if you attend all four you get a much more complete picture of where your training is limited - because the disciplines feed into each other.
Intermediate is the right frame. You should be training regularly in bodyweight movement - not necessarily hitting the skill, but working toward it consistently. These workshops are diagnostic, not beginner skill building sessions. If you're completely new to bodyweight strength, start with BWB classes first.
Yes. The coach edition includes the athlete edition. If you register as a coach, you're already registered for both sessions on that date. It serves as your practical.
All BWB workshops are in person, hands on services. A registration holds a physical spot in a capped session - that spot can't be resold once it's yours. For that reason we don't offer refunds. You're welcome to send someone in your place or transfer your registration as credit toward any other BWB service. Just reach out before the date.

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It’s not the athlete. It’s your program.

Four weekends.

Development techniques, plateau mechanics, and scaling methods that textbook progressions leave out.

Built entirely around the female calisthenics athlete.

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