This got spread around on Facebook a whole bunch the other day. Its very cool, for a number of reasons, so I felt it was worth sharing here too. Plus I’m a fan of the Game of Thrones show which just makes it even more cool. Hafthor Bjornsson, who plays …
Five Tips to Help Your Longevity in Lifting
A new article on various ways to help your longevity in lifting has been put at Breaking Muscle. 5 Tips for Longevity in Lifting This past weekend I was teaching a workshop when the topic of being strong and fit into old age came up. A few of the people …
Strengthen Your Back with Water Bottles
This is a guest video from Wesley Virgin
Use of Full Body Tension?
If you’ve been in the strength world for awhile you’ve likely heard about “Full Body Tension”. And on that note I received a great question the other day from Sol. Hi Logan, I read a lot of your Legendary Strength posts about muscle control the other day. I just purchased …
Determination and Persistence of Alan Mead
Check out my latest article at Breaking Muscle on an old-time strongman you probably never heard off – Alan Mead. Strongman Profile: Alan Mead Teaches Us About Perseverance Although many of the old-time strongman in the early 1900s were muscular, most paled in comparison to those who came later. But …
5 Day Structural Attack
The biggest and most pervasive training idea out there is that you have to FORCE your body to adapt to get stronger and build muscle. This is not true. Your body adapts to what you do regardless of whether force is used or not. This is the idea behind biofeedback …
Muscle Explosion
A couple month’s back I met the “Mad Scientist of Muscle”, Nick Nilsson. He hooked me up with his course Muscle Explosion. As I dove into it I have to say I was quite impressed. As you know, recently I went on a mass gaining kick, and I pulled some …
Back to Basics
As I am looking back over 2014 I came to realize something. I had gotten away from the basics in my training a bit too much! In fact, I can remember in the early part of the year, thinking that at my “advanced” stage of training I could do this. …
Goals and Habits
Last year I did a major project around HABITS. (I never got around to publicly releasing it but that will occur at some point in the future.) I think it was one of my best works. Probably because its on such an important subject. Since doing that project, accompanying tons …
Don’t Make ANY Resolutions for 2015
With the New Year on the horizon lots of people are thinking about their resolutions. Are you? I’m not…but let me explain. New Year’s resolutions are notorious for failure. Something like 95% of people don’t keep their “resolutions” beyond January. For many its not even two weeks. Why would you want …
Is the STRONG MAN returning?
This is an article from Sig Klein that was originally produced in an issue of Klein’s Bell. Science has proved that many things run in cycles. One of the outstanding things is styles – particularly in women’s wear. Men and women have always admired strength – for strength is the …
Dancing The Spinal Muscles by Alan Calvert
This is an article from Alan Calvert that was originally produced in an issue of Klein’s Bell (Siegmund Klein’s magazine from the 30’s). I thought it was interesting for anyone intrigued by muscle control. It describes a series of muscle controls I’ve never otherwise heard of, or definitely seen before. …
Develop Strong Grip With a Help of Edward Aston
Another article from the Strongman Profile series at Breaking Muscle has just been published. Strongman Profile: Edward Aston Teaches the Basics of Grip Strength Edward Aston is not one of the better-known old-time strongmen, but he deserves to be. Aston beat out Maxick for the World’s Middle-Weight-Lifting Championship in 1910. …
How I’m Healing My Shoulder
The other week I told you about how I injured my shoulder in a Thanksgiving football game (actually playing it, not just watching TV). Based on what’s happening there is likely some tendon and/or ligament damage. If it was just the muscles it would be fine by now, but its …
All About Muscle Control
Muscles can do one of two things, either contract or relax, with varying degrees of both. Muscle control is the art of controlling your muscles. More specifically it involves controlling muscles in isolation, in combinations and sequences. As a specific practice it was largely “created” by Maxick (born Max Sick, …