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Making me cry…doing what you love….

Last night my wife and I rented the movie, ‘The Bucket List’ from DirecTV. It hit me hard, REALLY hard, and of course, had me thinking like crazy about a lot of things. The list is on now 🙂 But,

Freak Grip Strength and Conditioning

I have always been a BIG fan of grip strength. I have never met someone with strong hands and a weak body. It NEVER works. Strongs hands = strong man, period! In the world of grip, you know of Smitty

Another Day in the Office

No fancy chair for me, no pretty desk to hide behind, only the challenge to lead from the front. Is it really a challenge, or, is it a choice? ONLY You decide! In Strength, –Z– P.S. – This style of

Banging heads with Beasts

This morning I was drinking my morning shake, which I have 2 – 3 mornings out of the week, other days, I go with “real” food. My wife asked me if I was going to work out today, I told

Muscle Building Formula: Build Strength = Build (A Lot) More Muscle

The amount of complicated BS training is getting out of control. The truth is, it is simple. And, NOT easy. It also takes time. Not months, but YEARS of work. The formula to gaining size? It starts with STRENGTH. If

He was a freak and had freakish training methods

He walked through waist high water for over an hour, lifting his legs out of the water on each step to develop work capacity. He would snatch throw a 220 lb. barbell for 100 reps backwards over his head as

333 | Interview With Louie Simmons of Westside Barbell Club: Lessons from The Westside Barbell Book of Methods

STRONG Life Podcast ep 333 This is a throwback interview I did with Louie Simmons, back in 2008. Back then, there were NO podcasts. I was using a landline to record these audio interviews for https://UndergroundStrengthCoach.com This was done after

Who remembers this BEAST?

This is the guy who was putting the boxing world on it’s rear when he was a young kid. At age 19 he was knocking out the best of the best. He trained in a secluded area in up state

Off he goes

One of my athletes is heading off to Pa. for a good month for some family vacation time. They have a place “in the woods”, so he was very worried about missing his workouts. I told him about what we

As I watched the Gladiators

Yesterday was a hot and humid day in Joisey. We had a few crews of Gladiators training, 5 – 6 in each group. I watched them sprint, jump, rip through kettlebells, sandbags and perform countless pull ups and push ups.

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