This podcast explores NLP in more depth as we take a look at identity and well formed outcomes. Click here for Part 1. Click here for Part 2. [display_podcast] A limiting belief that stopped my in doing my backflips better How your IDENTITY guides your training The 6 Main Questions …
How To Do Kettlebell Swings
In the age of technology, we tend to be a very sedentary population as a whole. No one can really deny that. That’s the way it is and it is how our society has developed. Some people work a nine-to-five job that requires them to be sedentary, and yet, others …
How to Deal with Joint Pain
How do you deal with joint pain? Most people had this problem at one point of their lives so it’s definitely something worth addressing. One of the most important things to look for is the cause of your joint pain. If you are able to pinpoint the exact cause of …
Bert Assirati
Bartolomeo “Bert” Assirati was a British Heavyweight Champion in wrestling born in 1908 in England. Aside from his impressive professional wrestling career, Assirati very much enjoyed various feats of strength. He set a British record in 1938 when he pulled over a 200 pound barbell at arms length while lying …
How to Punch Harder
This video is all about how to punch harder. Of course, the most important aspect of this is to learn the proper punching technique so you can translate all that body power into your target. The key to this is to use your body power and strike from the hip. …
Secrets of the Handstand Success
I just received this email from Chris Wooler ***** Back in May I decided I wanted to be able to do a handstand. The idea actually came from reading ‘Deceptive Strength’ and one of the exercises listed was a handstand. Now I had no prior experience on hand balancing or …
Inverted Bodyweight Rows
Have you taken the time to examine your posture lately? If not, now would be as good a time as any. Take the moment to stand perpendicular or sideways to a mirror and imagine a line going from the lateral malleolus (outside ankle bone) to the approximate point of the earlobe. If you have good posture, …
Joe Weider
Co-founder of the International Federation of Bodybuilders, Joe Weider, was a bodybuilder born in 1919 most famous for publishing numerous fitness magazines, like “Shape”, “Muscle & Fitness” and “Flex”. When he was only 14 years old, Weider started “Your Physique” magazine and constructed a set of barbells with things he …
How to get a Six Pack
What do you need to do in order to reveal six pack abs? Instead of focusing on how to get a six pack, we should rather think about steps which need to be taken to reveal them. First of all, you need to get rid of that excess fat. As …
Full Body Kettlebell Workout
When it comes to functional movement, which one is better: isolation of a certain group of muscles or the whole body moving in a synergistic fashion? It is relatively obvious that when you train the body to synergistically move as one solid and functional unit you would be creating a foundation for it to move as functionally and optimally …
Podcast: NLP for Strength Training Part 2
This podcast explores NLP in more depth as we take a look at beliefs, time and perceptual positions. Click here for Part 1. [display_podcast] Reasons why my progress seems to be accelerating even faster! A 5 Question Belief Assessment Tool How to step into the Future to better achieve your …
Kettlebell Goblet Squat
Dan John has always been one of my favorite strength and conditioning gurus to follow. Then again, I may be a tad bit biased considering we share the same love for throwing odd implements for a distance. Nonetheless, he’s a man who knows his stuff, and his ability to dumb-down …
Lifting Over 1000 lbs.
This wasn’t a main goal of mine, but ever since I bought my 110 lb. plates I figured I was close enough to go after it. Amazingly I hit it even faster than was expected. The rack pull or quarter deadlift is a great exercise. It is a partial movement …
Pushup Variations
The moment that pushups become second nature to you and your body is the moment that you need to incorporate new pushup variations. Let’s take a stroll along the path of reasoning and explore how variation allows for the process of progression to break through its barriers. When The Going Becomes Easy… Variation …
William Bankier
William Bankier was a strongman and bodybuilder born in 1870 in Scotland. He was attracted by the idea of becoming a circus performer at an early age, so when he turned 12 he ran away from home to join a circus. His father found him few weeks later and brought …