I recently got a pair of Nordic Lifting Straps for free, so I thought why not try them. I’ve already been using Ironmind straps, so I didn’t think much of it, but they turned out to be pretty cool. To my surprise, Nordic Lifting Straps came with a manual on …
Five Ways to Combat Low Energy Levels Right Before a Workout
In my newest guest post at Breaking Muscle you’ll discover five remedies to help you when you feel weak before a workout session. 5 Workout Remedies for When You Feel Weak What do you do when you’re all set to workout but you’re feeling weak or experiencing low …
How to Combine Bodyweight and Oldtime Strongman Training
The other day I received a question about how to combine bodyweight and oldtime strongman training. Since I hadn’t specifically covered that topic before I thought it was worth doing an in-depth article on it. I guess that makes this the third article in a series. The first one was …
5 BIG Lessons I Learned from Bud Jeffries
In this article I want to share with you five different big strength training lessons that have largely impacted my life that I learned from Bud Jeffries. #1 – Mixing and Matching Implements When I first got into serious training I was wrapped in the idea of being a bodyweight …
William Pagel
William Pagel was a circus strongman born in 1878 in Germany. Like many men of his time, Pagel was a sailor in his young days and enjoyed traveling around the world. During one of those journeys Pagel decided to leave the ship and settle in Australia. When he turned 19, …
Keep The Cookie Cutters In The Kitchen
This guest article comes from Professor “Stone” Paul. What an incredible state of cognitive dissonance we human beings live in! We spend our entire lives trying to separate ourselves from the very same herd of which we long to be a part of. None of us wants to believe that …
Building an Indestructible Body
The idea behind the Indestructible Body is about building your body to the point of being injury proof. Not only will these exercises and drills help you to prevent future injuries, but the same methods are used to rehab old and often times chronic injuries. What derails more people from …
What I have Achieved…and YOU Can Too
Like I told you in my last article about practicing what I preach its one of the most important things that I do. So I wanted to take a moment and share with you the achievements I have accomplished and how you can do the same or similar ones by …
Practicing What I Preach
It’s a sad fact but many of those who would teach you to become stronger, healthier and more fit aren’t really so themselves. There’s fitness guru’s and weight loss experts that are fat. I mean come on! Though they may be great marketers that path is not for me. Instead …
300 Beast Swings
In working with the kettlebell snatch I got to a point where it was going a little stale. So I decided to shift focus towards a sub-goal that would carry over to that main goal. Instead of snatches I’d do swings. More specifically I set a goal to do 300 …
Muscles vs. Strength
The common person out there believes that muscles equal strength and vice versa. But this is not true. If it were true, then big bodybuilders would dominate every strength sport. They would be the champion powerlifters, strongmen and Olympic lifters. And while there have been a few people that have …
Pyotr Kryloff
Pyotr Kryloff was a strongman, wrestler and athlete who lived from 1871 to 1933. He was best known as The King of Kettlebells, performing incredible feats of strength using kettlebells on a circus stage. Pyotr (also known as Pierre) was born in Moscow and his father was an avid fan …
5 Types of Structure Training
Different types of exercises bring different types of results. That’s obvious. So if you’re looking for unconventional results (and let’s be honest, conventional results aren’t that impressive) than you have to do unconventional exercises. In the new Strengthen Your Structure course there are five groups of exercises. Partials and Supports …
What is Perfect Form?
I received a response from one of my earlier articles where I stated that I’m not all that concerned with good form in my exercises. This is very much in contrast with what most people believe, so it is worth going into more detail. Good Form = No Injuries and …
Old-Time Strongman Training Video
Just the other day I was interview by Josh Hewett of GymChats.com. Our topic was the oldtime strongmen and training like them. You’ll find out: What is oldtime strongman training? Some of the best books by the strongest people… Understanding progression intimately What it takes to become a performing strongman …