I’ve been getting back into card tearing lately… Just pulled off a new feat that I hadn’t done before. Not just tearing a deck of cards, but doing it in the box, and then quartering one side as well. See more on card tearing in these posts:
Strongman vs. Smoking (Death)
Scott asks: I enjoy the emails you send me about the old time strongmen and other topics. Every Sunday the folks at smokingpipes.com sends me a newsletter which often features a story about a well known pipe smoker.This is entirely anecdotal but it seems to me the pipe smokers outlive the strongmen …
Saxon’s Training Plan?
Per from Sweden asks… “I hope this e-mail finds you in good health. Recently, I bought your old strength course of the Saxon´s brothers. It´s a great course and I´m very grateful that you have recording the videos of the lifts they did. Since I have no one to ask …
Light Weights vs Heavy Weights
Question about light weights vs. heavy weights for strength What is better to use, heavy weights or light weights? Marcelo asks: I want to build well-rounded athleticism and strength and have followed some of the workouts from some of your programs and books such as Deceptive Strength and Indestructible body. …
10 Reasons to Learn from Oldtime Strongmen
I came up with a list of why it may be good for you to read some of the works of the oldtime strongmen from a century or so ago. Here are ten reasons. Some of their feats of strength have not been surpassed to this day. That is quite …
Meditation vs. Hypnosis
Jeff asks, “Are hypnosis and meditation the same thing?” Great question! Similar in many respects but not quite the same. There’s physical and mental relaxation involved. Brain waves going from beta to alpha and even theta or gamma can occur in both. Most people equate meditation to clearing the mind …
My Unabashed Opinion on Muscle Control
Lately, a number of people have been asking me about muscle control. So, I figured it was time to give my unabashed opinion on it. Muscle control is great…and, at the same time, it’s not quite all it’s cropped up to be. Back around the early 1900’s, there were a …
Working on Hanging Feat of Strength
The other week I posted this on Instagram and Facebook. People got MAD! I’m sharing it here too even though I know the same thing will happen. 🙂 First a few words of warning. I am a professional strongman. Doing so involves some potentially dangerous feats of strength. For example, …
Progression Keys – Linear vs Double Progression
It was the summer before Sophomore year at high school. I figured if I started with 20 pushups each and every day, and added one pushup per day, by the end of Summer I’d be significantly stronger. So I started on my plan. It was easy in the beginning. Then …
How Did I Get So Strong?
“How did you ever get to where you are at anyway?? Where did you find the time and the resources to make it actually happen?” -Ricky This is a great question. For those that have ears to listen this should be quite instructive… I consider my strength training journey to …
Don’t be a Robot!
Bodybuilders get a lot of crap, especially from us in the “functional training” world. But that’s not to say there aren’t some smart and strong guys out there in that world. Recently came across this quote from Tom Platz, a professional bodybuilder voted to have the ‘Best Quads and Hamstrings …
MMA vs. Strongman
The following is a heavyweight bout from May 23, 2015 where former five-time world’s strongest man Mariusz Pudzianowski quickly knocks out Rolles Gracie, a 4th degree black belt in BJJ and 3rd degree in Judo. In the beginning of the UFC Royce Gracie grabbed everyone’s attention by taking out much …
Odd Haugen Lifts Inch Dumbbell 65 Times
Doing special strength challenges is half the fun of being strong. Odd Haugen appears to think so too. One of the legends of the strongman world Odd set out for a record on his 65th birthday, to lift the unliftable dumbbell 65 times. He turned a feat of grip strength …
Strongman Competition WIN!
I’m very pleased to announce I took 1st place in the Men’s Light Weight division at the Santa Cruz Strength Strongman Challenge 2 this past Saturday. It was a hard-fought battle and I’ll be sharing every detail and video I have with you here in this article. Preparation for the …
Pyotr Kryloff
Pyotr Kryloff was a strongman, wrestler and athlete who lived from 1871 to 1933. He was best known as The King of Kettlebells, performing incredible feats of strength using kettlebells on a circus stage. Pyotr (also known as Pierre) was born in Moscow and his father was an avid fan …