Bob asks: “I am currently focused on getting my weight back under control and improving my card deck tearing. Currently I am working on completing as many military style burpees as possible in 15 minutes, jogging (more for the mental health aspect) and working on card tearing every 3 days …
How Strength Affects Endurance Training and Vice Versa
How does strength affect endurance? How does endurance affect strength? Find out how I think about these terms in the video below, and how you should too. First, it is important to realize that strength and endurance are not separate things but exist more on a spectrum. Extreme examples of …
Yardstick Conditioning
This is a concept I first learned from Bud Jeffries. I believe he outlined it inside of Twisted Conditioning 2, though I could have that mixed up. Bud was the first guy I saw that was really doing it all. While many people were bodyweight only guys, or kettlebell guys, …
How to Plan for a Big Training Goal
I’m settled into my new house, and things are mostly back to normal. However, much that I want to go off in a new training direction, I still have a big goal I need to hit before I can do that. The Beast Snatch Test. I was closing in on …
Jumping Lunge for Conditioning
The following is an excerpt from The Ultimate Guide to Bodyweight Conditioning. The Jumping Lunge To start with, from a normal standing position, step one foot forward, with a larger than normal step. This forward foot will be flat footed. Bend the leg as the other foot stays in place …
The Strength-Endurance Continuum
The following is an excerpt from The Ultimate Guide to Bodyweight Conditioning. In the training world you’ve likely come across these terms before: strength, strength-endurance and endurance. What is the difference in these? What makes something a feat of strength versus a feat of endurance? You may think of deadlifting …
PR Report 1-10-14
I’ve been working on my flexibility for the most part this week. I shot this video which shows me doing an isometric stretching variation in both the front splits and the side. You can see me get lower with each tense and release. I can tell I’ve already improved my …
Adrian Peter Schmidt
Adrian Peter Schmidt was a physical culturist and strongman born in 1872 in France. Unlike many oldtime strongmen who had great genetic predispositions and health, Schmidt wasn’t so lucky genetic-wise and he also contracted typhoid fever at the age of 15. This combination left him very slim, but he still …
No Conditioning
A new article all about conditioning and endurance exercise has been put on Breaking Muscle. Why I Don’t Do “Conditioning” and You Don’t Have to Either It’s too bad that running a marathon is still looked at by many as the epitome of fitness. Even the man who popularized running, …
How To Blend Bags, Bells, and Bodyweight For Extreme Gains In Strength, Power, and Conditioning
Check out this guest post from Travis Stoetzel. Back before I had my gym I can remember the good ol’ days of rolling around in my Jeep, AKA my “mobile garage gym” and cranking out some of the best workouts ever. I didn’t need a gym. Just some open space, …
7 Amazing Longevity Health Tips
I got back from my trip last to the Longevity Now Conference last night. And what a trip it was. I’m afraid I can only scratch the surface of everything I learned here. But I did want to give you a few things to take away from it. 1. Grounding …
Steven Santangelo
Last night’s Super Human Training call was a surprise to me. Bud brought on Stephen Santangelo and I didn’t know what to expect. What ended up happening was a lot of ground breaking info was shared. This included: Balancing the blood’s pH for optimal health and training A Common eating …