First off, there’s a new feat of strength up on the site. This one’s on Muscle Control. I’ve included a video of a few abdominal moves too. While it’s not much practiced these days, it’s worth the effort. After my last message I’ve been wracking my brain figuring out the …
Holiday Strongman Performance
When you’re starting out you’ve got to get some practice doing feats of strength in front of others. It can be a different beast on a stage versus in the comfort of your own home. This past Friday night I had an opportunity to test out one of my newest …
Best of 2008 Video
What a year’s it been. This video gives you a glimpse of just a few of the things I’ve accomplished along the way. Let me set this straight. I am not trying to be boastful here. I’m not saying I don’t take pride in my accomplishments, but my purpose here …
Strength and Size in Strongmen Today and Before
Received an excellent couple of questions the other day about size and strength, specifically of the old-time strongmen. My most concern is that I’d like to know how somebody could be a strongman without being as huge as nowadays’ strongmen. What did the old-time strongmen did to be so strong …
Dinoman Back in Action
Don’t know if you’ve heard the news but the man behind the strength training classic, Dinosaur Training, is about to release a new book. That’s right Brooks Kubik is now taking pre-orders for Legacy of Iron, which in my opinion is an awesome title. I ordered myself a copy last …
Hair and Teeth Feats of Strength
Got a few new feats of strength up on the site. These are one’s you don’t see very often. Mostly because they’re painful and seemingly dangerous. First up is feats of strength involving the hair. This is one I’ve personally done in the past and plan to do more of …
New Feats of Strength
There’s a few new feats of strength up on the site. We’ve got juggling weights, of course with kettlebells but also the rarely seen barbell juggling. In addition you’ll find a page on grippers and hand balancing. Gonna be adding more over the week as well as shooting some demonstration …
Card Tearing and Sledge Leveraging
I decided to film a bit of my workout yesterday. It was a good one, hitting some new personal records and my legs are feeling it today. Its not a good idea to really seek soreness, but sometimes when you feel it, you know you had a good workout. I …
Feats of Strength Resource
Feats of strength are not just for show. Many of them prove to be great exercises to include in your everyday workouts. Others are only really useful to impress a crowd. An application of what your training has done for you. Regardless of what you use them for or even …
Wrestlers Bridge Concrete Break
Every once in a while you get an idea for a cool new exercise or a feat of strength. Often times you can test it out right away to see if it works or falls flat. Other times you may have to sit on it and wait. The latter case …
Joe Nordquest
Joe Nordquest was a classic strongman back in the early part of last century. He was the brother of ‘The Young Sandow’ Alfred Nordquest. Here are some of his hand balancing exploits. From Klein’s Bell in November of 1931: Joe Nordquest performed a one hand stand and with the free …
Saxon, Sandow and others want to help you
I got an idea for something that hasn’t been done before in this field and it really got me excited. You know, there’s a goldmine of strength training and physical culture information left behind by some of the strongest men that ever walked this earth. Ripe for the taking. But …
Phonebook Tearing Battle
I haven’t spent much time on phonebook tearing recently. Simply because some of my other feats need more work, like tearing decks of cards. But I’d still throw it into my workouts every once in a while. Most of the time this was at the end and I’d use a …
Tweaking Your Training Plans
There are often regular breaks in your routine which should be used to change up how you train. One example is travel for any length of time. With certainty any travel is going to disrupt any plan of training you have. You may not have the right equipment to do …
Feats of Strength on the Road
Been traveling around the past week and a half. Nowadays it seems there is something that is always of staple of me doing that. And that is performing a few feats of strength for others. I did a few here and there, but there was one night down in Huntington …