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You vs “That Guy”

I used to work with a guy at a fitness center. He was an awesome trainer and he had big goals. He wanted to open his own facility. He left the place we worked at and worked for another guy.

The uncomplicated strength workout

Keep it simple, nothing fancy, hit the weights hard, hit em’ heavy, go light when your body tells you to back off, and, if you’re feelin’ like a beast, go ahead and kill the weights…..and I do mean KILL IT!

15 Minute Muscle Building Workouts

I was in a bit of a rush Friday before clients were heading in to The Underground Strength Gym and I was finishing up some work on the Blog. Not to worry, as I knew I could crank out some

A Day at DeFranco’s – The Strongman Challenge

Yesterday I made the one hour trek up north to my homeboy Joe D’s gym, and damn, what a gym it is, I’m in heaven there. The atmosphere is always high octane and steel is always clanging together or being

Serious or not at all

Yesterday, we had a high school Football player pop in, asking about training. The H3 he pulled up in looked familiar, so i asked if he was related to a certain someone who trained at The Underground Strength Gym… for

Purposeful Primitive Book Review

Above, Kirk Karwoski, world record powerlifter trained under Marty Gallagher, Author of The Purposeful Primitive. One week ago I got a new training book I ordered in the mail, ‘The Purposeful Primitive’. It’s been a while since I got excited

You’re kidding, right?

Since the explosion of the internet and the fancy shmancy gyms that have been popping up on every corner of every town, notice how everyone struggles with results? You shoulda seen the gym Lou Ferrigno trained in when he was

I used to….

When I was 13 I started getting heavily into bodybuilding. But what impacted me most was the info found in the original, Arnold Schwarzenneger Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding. In this HUGE book were tons and tons of black and white

“Sky’s the limit!”

If you’re in a slump, don’t worry, I’ll help you step it up and make your way out of it. It’s mind power, and you and ONLY you can control your mind. The mind must be trained, just like your

What trail are you blazing?

So, you wake up every morning, same routine, same time, same breakfast, same….. You know the routine, dontcha? Well, let me make you feel a bit uncomfortable for a moment, and uncomfortable is good, it’s REALLY good. Because when you

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