Everything is just a tool. The barbell will always be the King of the weight room, but man do I LOVE heavy dumbbell work. Heavy sandbag training is awesome as well. Explosive bodyweight drills can’t be denied either. Check out
Check out my son, Ethan and I kicking back on “Man Day” (soon to be a International Holiday 🙂 The guys from Pumping Iron trained HARD & HEAVY! They had physiques that were granite hard and man could they move
The common myth or misunderstanding is that if you train heavy and get stronger you will be fast as hell. Not so, at least not to the best possible extent. To move like an athlete you must incorporate athletic movements:
I love training with Sandbags. They are simple and brutal. Overall, they are an all in one gym and you can mimic a lot of barbell lifts with the sandbag along with old fashioned farm boy work; carry, throw, loading
I’m a BIG believer in carrying heavy objects of all kinds. It requires you to perform an explosive power clean or a Deadlift at the beginning of every set. Then, you must wrestle the object into position which works the
STORY Time: It was the Fall of 2007…… Interesting story from today while training a crew of wrestlers and football players…. Two high school kids stopped by the gym while we were outside flipping tires, pulling and pushing sleds, carrying
Pressing big is critical – from ALL angles and planes. The overhead press was once upon a time the measure of a man’s strength. As Physical Culture lost its appeal and bodybuilding took over the Bench Press became the new
Recently a gentleman stopped by my gym to gift me with some very, very, very rare gifts. This shocked me BIG time…. This gentleman, named John, stopped by my Underground Strength Gym unannounced. Normally, I am not a fan of
Episode # 120 Baby… If you ever read the old Strength & Health magazines or Arnold’s ORIGINAL Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding you would have seen HEAVY lifting going on, calisthenics / gymnastics movements, lots of jumping, rope climbs and speed
Onward and upward we go bruddahs…. The next part of the workout was a couplet or superset: 1 arm dumbbell push press for 3 -5 reps per set scare crow – face pull combo using rings or blast straps (these
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