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This was my latest article from http://Elitefts.com
The title….. ‘NO Respect? Go to the Bsement!’
It’s been pissing many off but making more people happy that said what I said.
Figured I’d leave this gem right here for you to read, enjoy and feel to free to comment and share with others you know 
Wow, those were some wild days.
Back when I FIRST began taking on clients as a profession, a five bucks per hour profession none the less
I was training a few athletes from my Dad’s garage, his backyard and the local parks.
At the time, Kurt, was a high school basketball player.
His Dad owned a truck and I offered to train him all summer for free if he can help me pick up some gym equipment.
I purchased a long dumbbell rack, a chin - dip combo bar, a boat load of rusty ivanko plates and a barbell.
Good times.
I had some other tools in the garage, stuff that was confusing to me as I never used it, but my close friend used these tools like crazy and he was training everyone with them
I’m talking about stability balls and balance discs.
There is a myth behind the term “functional strength”.
Back in the day it was all about balancing on a ball,
a wobble board or anything unstable.
Nowadays it’s all about kettlebells.
When I think about “functional strength” it means
one thing to me and that is my ability to display
strength regardless of the situation I am in.
I want to be able to lift big…that means
being able to squat, deadlift and olympic
lift heavy weights. I want to be able to
flip 600 lb tires with ease, sprint up a hill
faster than all heck, and be able to kick
ass and take names if a bar fight breaks out.
Time for some action.
Time to do it your way, finally, not anyone else’s way.
Seriously. Stop doing what you see everyone else doing. Stop copying the concentration curls, the lat pull downs, the smith machine presses….everything performed seated of course.
Every workout does NOT have to be the perfect balance of push / pull, or upper / lower body work.
Who ever said that everything must be in total harmony and balance is full of it. Ask the guys in the pen about balance and instead they’ll tell you about benching, curling and doing sit ups every single day. They’re also stronger than the majority of gym goers I have ever run into!
Breaking the rules is what leads to success very often in performance. Notice I didn’t say all the time, absolutes are impossible to come by.
I’m talking human performance and business performance. Not the type of legal rules that can put you in jail so stop making excuses before we even get you to break ONE rule.
STOP training like a pussy, plain and simple.
It’s time to rebel, to break the rules and to train like a Gladiator.
This is how Underground training was birthed….
