Wayne Smith was a strongman born in 1932. He became interested in training in early years, along with a twin brother Ward, but he actually started training after he joined the Navy. During his service in Hawaii, Wayne became a friend with Tommy Kono and below is the picture from …
How To Do It All
I got an interesting question recently on how to incorporate kettlebells, kettlebell juggling, bodyweight, gymnastics, strongman training, Olympic lifting and heavy barbell work into one program. In fact something along these lines is a common question I receive because it is what I do. Judging from numerous videos on my …
Podcast: Leg Training with Tyler Bramlett
This is my first podcast with a guest, my good friend and often training partner Tyler Bramlett. [display_podcast] How to Bounce Back from Severe Injuries The PM3 Method – What it is and how to use it? How one client went from zero to 123 consecutive pistols! The value of …
Johann Martin
I’ve got some exciting projects in the works. More on those later. For now I wanted to share this video with you of Johann Martin in case you haven’t seen it. To me this guy is the ultimate athlete. Basically he does many of the things I do, he’s just …
Singles vs High Reps
Why are we so concerned with maxing out? I really want you to think about that for a moment. Why does your average person concern themselves with how much weight that can lift a single time? Unless you compete in powerlifting or Olympic lifting your max attempt doesn’t really matter. …
Strongman Picnic Recap
You’ve seen my performance from the Atomic Athletic Strongman Picnic. But what about everyone else? You don’t call it a strongman picnic if there isn’t all kinds of strong people present. This includes the oldtime performance based strongman as well as the modern competing type. There was Olympic lifting. There …
Weightlifting and Hand Balancing
Does lifting weights help to hand balance? The answer is yes and no. Let me qualify all the following by saying there are many different ways to lift weights. Whether you are doing power lifting, Olympic lifting, bodybuilding, or just good old fashioned strength training with barbells and dumbbells. How …