Last night I joined my friend Jeremy at his rock climbing gym, Planet Granite last night. I don’t have much experience with that kind of training but I always like to get out and try new things. Plus it’s a lot of fun. Before we began bouldering I showed him …
Progressive Conditioning
An important part of a complete training program is to do some sort of conditioning work. Of course, this can come in many shapes and sizes. Sprints, kettlebell swings and snatches, skipping rope, and high rep bodyweight exercises are a few of my favorites. And just like in any other …
Strong Hair Pull
Over two years ago my friend and I first pulled a truck by our hair. It was a feat of strength designed to pay homage to one of my favorite oldtime strongmen, The Mighty Atom. For several reasons its been that long since we revisited our feat. That was until …
Life Likes To Get In The Way
Life likes to get in the way. For the past couple weeks I’ve had family visiting. While I’ve enjoyed hanging out with them, spending all that time is taking away from other things. Add to that everything else that’s going on and training had to take a backseat…almost. Because I’ve …
Chain Breaking
Its been awhile since I’ve added a new feat of strength to the site. Today that changes. Check out the new page on chain breaking.
What Trampoline should I use?
With the release of the Trampoline Handbook I’ve received a few questions on what type and size of trampoline I recommend. To do the tricks in the book you’ll need to be able fully layout on the trampoline. For this reason I recommend a trampoline that is at least 10 …
How to Get Started in Card Tearing
One common question I get when people see me doing feats of strength like tearing a phonebook or deck of cards in half is how do you get started? When people get exposed to these feats enough, and have been training regularly, they figure they might as well give it …
The Trampoline Handbook Available Now
The new Trampoline Handbook is available now. You can skip right ahead and get it now. Or read below to get the back story… —– I’m human. And because of that I make mistakes. But I like to think I quickly learn and fix them. However sometimes that’s not the …
Rolling a Dumbbell Across the Gym?!?
If you missed my last story about one of the exercises I saw in a commercial gym you can read about it in the post below. But this one blow even that away. My friend ended up visiting that same gym the next day. And this is what he saw. …
Productive Exercises in Canada
I’m back in action after a several week hiatus. In case, you’re wondering the tour was hugely successful and a lot of fun the entire time. Perhaps I’ll tell you more about that later but right now I gotta tell you about a visit to a gym I had in …
Making Road Workouts Work
I’m about to hit the road for three weeks with my friends’ band Archer as they start up their first big tour. If you enjoy hard rock I suggest you check them out at https://www.archernation.com But that’s not the main thing I want to talk to you about today. Instead …
Human Link, Finger Lifting & Muscle Out
Just a quick note today to let you there are three new feats of strength up on the site. Go check ‘em out. The Muscle Out is a classic challenge when it comes to feats of strength. You take a weight and hold it out at arms length either to …
Old Time Strongman and How They Trained
I received a great question the other day and figured you’d like to hear the answer as well. Logan, I’ve been researching and looking through everything I can find on Old Time Strongmen (Sandow, Saxon, etc) and I haven’t found this information yet. How did they train all these attributes? …
Sig Klein Tribute
Video of Sig Klein Sig Klein has to be one of my favorites of the old time strongman. He was just such a perfectly developed athlete. And he did it all from weightlifting, various feats of strength, to muscle control and more. Not the least of which were his hand …
Structuring Your Workouts For Maximum Results
How you structure your workouts is vitally important to your success. I talking sets, reps, exercises, and workouts from one day to the next. There are many ways to do it and almost all of them will work to some degree, but depending on what you’re going for, certain options …