Our third question in a series about 60-year-olds training but having more trouble than they used to, Chuck asks: “Here’s a question I have and maybe some of your other readers can relate to: so, I keep running into lower back pain when I attempt exercises like dead lifts. The …
Stubbornness vs. Mental Toughness
In reply to the Dark Side of Mental Toughness, Rick sent this in… “Well I don’t think being stubborn to the point of stupidity has anything to do with mental toughness, Insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.” I disagree. Let me show you why… …
When to Push Through vs. When to Back Off
I want to share a note I received from a customer named Craig as it holds a couple of key learning lessons (one’s that even I need reminders of from time to time). “Unfortunately, I’ve also been dealing with an unexplained shoulder injury for the past month and a half. …
The Dark Side of Mental Toughness
If some mental toughness is good, more must be better! Not true. In discussing mental toughness, it is key to understand that it has a shadow. And that shadow is that your mind can override things. It can override the signals that your body is sending you. It can override …
I Hurt My Back…
It happened! For the first time in something like eight years I hurt my lower back. (Methinks that’s a pretty good run.) Was it from kettlebell juggling? Was it bent pressing a heavy weight? Was it doing arched back handstand pushups? None of the above. It was simply cleaning a …
To Warmup or Not Warmup?
Like all things, whether or not you should do a warmup depends on quite a few different factors. I was just reading through a book that recommended spending 15 minutes engaging in a warmup in order to maximize performance. That may well be the case, but that fact is that …
Enhancing Your Antifragility
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” – Benjamin Franklin A few months back I began talking about the concepts surrounding the “antifragile body.” That the human body, as a living system, is able to come back stronger from stressors. Today, I’d like to extend that a …
Pressing vs HSPU
Ralph asks: “Hey Logan what up? Just wondering I’ve never done a handstand pushup and I’m wondering adding that to my Deceptive Strength workouts will it create a pushing imbalance like aggravate all the sitting/resting and stuff. Thanks your products are incredible and amazing for strength and all things related.” …
Progression Keys – Varied Wave Progression
In the previous article, I covered the linear system of progression and the double system, which looks something more like a stair step progression. Today, we cover the varied wave. It is varied in that you use multiple methods of progression, intensity, set, volume and density. It is a wave …
Movement Feedback Systems
Isn’t it funny where the ‘AHA’ moments strike? A couple months back, I was at a marketing seminar. The speaker was talking about feedback systems, specifically his hobby of creating audio speakers, and how this related to marketing. Well, just the previous day I had been filming Module 5 of …
How to Fix Niggling Pains
As I started up back in doing handstand pushups the other day, I noticed something. My right shoulder was not feeling 100%. The truth is I wouldn’t even call it “pain”. That’s too strong of a word. But “niggling” is about right. It means: “cause slight but persistent annoyance, discomfort, …
How to Avoid getting Broken from a Program
This is a really important concept that I hope you ‘grok’. What I see is so many people never achieve the strength or fitness they desire, because injury gets in the way. Jeff, a new Strength Health Mind Power Inner Circle Member, wrote in saying: “For me, right now, that …
Fast vs. Slow Exercise
Ricky asked me a lot of questions. A lot of them are great questions, so I chose to share them with the greater public too: “A couple of questions linger in my mind in regards to your Deceptive Strength (in particular) approach and philosophy… “You seem to think that faster …
How I Do Biofeedback Training
When I enter the gym I have a basic idea of what I’m going to be doing. But… I do not have a written plan. I do not know exactly what exercises I will be doing. I do not know the weights, sets and reps. I don’t know how long …
The Most Powerful Training Tool
Its not a barbell… Its not a kettlebell… Its not your training journal… Its your body… And I’m not talking about bodyweight exercises. Those are important and something I’ll be sharing a bunch more on shortly, but for now I‘m talking about something else. That is using your body and …