I just had an amazing weekend in Alexandria, Va. My family and I took a short weekend trip to hang with great friends and get my learn ON. Kelly Starrett was in the house for a private seminar at Trident CrossFit, the home of Mr. and Mrs. Quatro Deuce. Stop learning and you stop living. Period. I am gonna be attacking my learning this year like never before. The goal is to get smarter and better in order to help Underground Strength Nation & Underground Strength Gym become BIG time better … [Read more...]
Odd Object Lifting For “Functional Strength”
Through my own experiences as an athlete and training other athletes, I was taught a powerful lesson that was once (and perhaps still is seen as a fad): Training ONLY with free weights and bodyweight exercises is limiting your potential in developing strength above and beyond the "norm", especially if you're an athlete. The body quickly gets bored and adapts to training methods unless you implement variety. Variety can be the training tools, the speed of the exercises, the range of motion, the … [Read more...]
The 9 Best Sandbag Strength Training Exercises
Sandbag training has been one of the most powerful methods I've implemented with training my athletes. The various sandbag workouts & exercises have developed a type of strength and mental toughness that is unique to say the least. Using sandbags has helped with developing explosive power, brute strength, mental toughness and has even reduced injuries and weakness in odd / awkward positions that tend to happen during sports such as the round back position in wrestling, lifting opponents … [Read more...]
Learning The Olympic Lifts, Part II
One of the toughest Olympic Lifting exercises for me to learn (STILL learning, ALWAYS learning!) was the power clean. Some of my problems were common problems for other aspiring Olympic Lifters as well: - My wrists were extremely tight - My shoulders and lats lacked mobility - I wasn't using a grip that was conducive for my own physical capabilities AND faults You see, back in the day.... … [Read more...]
Learning The Olympic Lifts
Years and years ago Coach Reeve told me how he would train his Football players while also playing videos on TVs of The IronMind Olympic Lifting Training Halls. I snatched up those highlight DVDs immediately and the footage blew me away! I couldn't believe how damn STRONG these dudes were! Not only were they hitting the olympic lifts with heavy weights AND fast, but they were also powerlifting with extreme poundages using NO support gear. About a year ago I decided I would start learning the … [Read more...]
Underground Strength Program Design Tips – Part 2
Here is Part II on our Underground Strength program design tips. My training model, for the most part, follows the concurrent method, where we focus on training strength, power, conditioning and muscle building in one workout. In this video I address the following: … [Read more...]
4 Program Design Tips For Underground Strength Workouts
[youtube width="640" height="360"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7zV1zjABFI[/youtube] Now you've got a little insight into how I program workouts at The Underground Strength Gym, as well as how you can tweak these workouts if you utilize CrossFit as your training protocol, here are 4 critical components we focus on when organizing Underground Strength Workouts: 1) We focus on building special strengths: strength endurance & power endurance 2) We focus on building athleticism & being … [Read more...]
Underground Strength Workout Feb. 18, 2013
[youtube width="640" height="360"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDoUHdhoOpo[/youtube] Take your training outdoors. Find an empty school parking lot when school is closed or go behind a strip plaza for some wide open space with no foot or car traffic. Use 1 or 2 Kettlebells for this Underground Strength Workout and perform the strict clean and press, not a push press. 1A) Clean and Press 10 x 5 reps 1B) Car Push 10 x 100 Ft Rest as needed between sets and perform the appropriate … [Read more...]
2 Lessons For All Men
[youtube width="640" height="360"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jM_lHyWhiM&feature=share&list=UUqfeXppJ0gH-xMteusTeVEg[/youtube] Drop your comments below. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts! Live The Code --Z-- … [Read more...]
Olympic Lifting – When To Start?
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