When it comes to functional movement, which one is better: isolation of a certain group of muscles or the whole body moving in a synergistic fashion? It is relatively obvious that when you train the body to synergistically move as one solid and functional unit you would be creating a foundation for it to move as functionally and optimally …
Monte Saldo
Monte Saldo was a bodybuilder, stage performer and an author born in 1879 in London. Saldo showed interests in bodybuilding and strength training as a teenager. With a help of his uncle, who was a well-known and respected police inspector, Saldo became an apprentice to Eugene Sandow in 1897, at …
Revolutionary Health Non-Technology
Recently I told you that in addition to strength training and feats of strength I’d start to talk more on the subject of health. Health is important. It seems to me that the majority of trainees these days don’t pay enough attention to it. If you workout then scarf down …
Hand Strength Training
David asked a follow up question regarding his Convict Conditioning routine. “Two questions: I forgot to ask, how would you add grip, neck, & calf work in there too; and can you give a more in depth outline of circuit training – how you would plan it?” In today’s post …
Strongerman.com
Almost a year ago I was talking to professional strongman Dennis Rogers and he presented me with an opportunity. His friend and one of the world’s strongest men, Bud Jeffries was looking for someone to take over his business. If you’ve been in the iron game for awhile its likely …
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 …
Destructive Training Habits
No I’m not talking about spending 4 hours in the gym that wear you down instead of building you up. That kind of stuff will be talked about some other time. What I am talking about is a certain kind of strength training. The kind that leaves behind a pile …