I came up learning from the Golden Era Greats of Bodybuilding and the late, great John Kemper, the owner of Diamond Gym. These men were strong, jacked and ripped. They lifted heavy and often did supersets, even with the big compound movements. Even if they trained on machines, you would see guys loading up the machines and then rigging up the machine to add more 45s to the stack of weights. When I followed their routines of aggressive and heavy training using mostly free weights, my … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2013
The Desire To Be GREAT & WHY I Achieved Success As A Coach
If you want to be GREAT at something, then you need to LOVE that thing and genuinely CARE for that thing from the deepest core of your heart, soul & spirit. The caring and love you have for something will lead you in the right direction and fuel your fire to achieve GREATNESS vs simply talking about it. When I am asked WHY I achieved success as a Coach, regardless of the lack of resources I started with over 10 years ago, the bottom line is that I CARE with ALL my heart. And when you … [Read more...]
WHY Iron History Is SO Important
I've traveled around the country and have done some crazy things to get my hands on vintage, historical strength training equipment. This article was written in 2010. This was a time when I rarely came across collectors. People flipping vintage equipment as a business is different than guys like myself who actually TRAIN on this equipment. People have offered me money for my 150 lb globe dumbbell and I've told them I won't sell it, ever. You can offer me 15 or 20 grand and that money means … [Read more...]
9 Lessons Learned At Sorinex Summer Strong – Pt 2
Here's Part 2 of our 2 Part series of What I learned at Sorinex Summer Strong. Continuing with the exercises that are overrated pertaining to the development of athletes. Here are 2 exercises that I have found ways to work around to "make it happen." … [Read more...]
9 Lessons Learned At Sorinex Summer Strong – Pt 1
Here's a recap of just some of the lessons learned at Sorinex Summer Strong. More than just lessons, these were the main themes that simply kept coming back around, full circle. If any of the lifters and coaches disagreed, it was on maybe 10% of our thoughts, if that. The other 90% or more of our thoughts were all on the same page. In a nut shell, here is a list of common themes that were given if you wanna kick ass & take names: … [Read more...]
The Pursuit Of Excellence
Sometimes we wrestle with who we are and what we're about. I know it happens to me sometimes, and I begin to wonder if I am too intense, expect too much.... But the universe has a funny way of teaching us lessons and bringing things into our lives. Check out all these lessons I've learned about my personality traits. … [Read more...]
How To Eat & Train for MAX Muscle (Intermittent Fasting)?
How do you eat to get leaner, stronger & fitter? How do you train to pack on MAX strength & MAX Muscle? The answer is this..... … [Read more...]
Bigger, Stronger, Faster – KILL The Complications
How do I get bigger, stronger, faster? I'll tell you this much. It won't happen if you keep looking for the magic bullet. Eventually, you just have to DO SOMETHING. Here's a story of someone who wasted time & energy when the answer was staring him in the eyes yet he passed that opportunity by. The answer is staring YOU in the eyes as well. … [Read more...]
6 Things To Do On Father’s Day…
[youtube width="640" height="360"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpLOvY_MVcs[/youtube] A few things come to mind on Father's Day. By no means is this anywhere near an all encompassing list. By no means does this make me a perfect Dad, far from it. The gist is that I am always striving to become better. Things to do on Father's Day: … [Read more...]
Underground Strength Gym To The Marines
VERY proud of our Team Underground Homeboy, Wags. One of the hardest working kids I've ever come across, now, protecting our country!! Here's a message Wags sent to the crew at Team Underground, I wanted to share with Undergrounders around the world. Wags was an all state high school wrestler for South Plainfield (2nd in the state behind eventual 4 time state champ, Andrew Campolotano), then a D1 Wrestler and after sophomore year, Wags went on to The Marines. You've likely seen videos of Wags … [Read more...]