The Pursuit Of Strength In All Its Forms
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I was recently asked why it is so important to me to get strong. I took a while to think about this question. When I finally had an answer, I knew it was the right one for me. “It’s important to me because the pursuit of strength leads to all kinds of improvements I never [...]
Update: When I wrote this, I had just passed 30 hours without tics. This morning it’s over 48 hours and still counting. Life is good. And better all the time, just like it should be. If our purpose here on Earth is not to be happy, I don’t care to know The Plan behind it [...]
Continuing the epic awesomeness of the lessons learned from 1980′s movies, I want to highlight the greatest villians in American history. No story can have a hero without a villain, and often the villains actions form the perspective of the value of the hero. Everyone always focuses on the good guy- so here are some [...]
Entering the building from left to right, you will see: 7 Barbells, 2 axles, 50+ kettlebells, 1 strongman log, 2 clubs, 1 mace, 1 clubbell, 10 dumbbells, 3,700+pounds worth of plates, 18 grippers, 9 block weights, 3 york blobs, and no less than 53 individual pieces of grip equipment ranging from TTKs to 3 finger lifting [...]
“Pain makes you stupid.” That’s one of my associates favorite quotes of mine. Not only is it quotable, it’s scientifically verifiable. My academic progress has been paralleled by my journey out of pain. As I’ve had more pain relief, I’ve done fewer stupid things. This post is about how my practice of joint mobility is [...]
I’ve been a competitive endurance athlete as long as I can remember. I was doing children’s events at road races by the time I was 4 and when I was seven years old I started racing in cross country running and track all around the Northwest region in the Junior Olympics. From that young age [...]
Continuing on this weekend, learn the metrics of progress. How do we measure progress in the weight room and during gym practice? Intensity I use this term to describe several things, relative to the task at hand. Weight used for the movement in relationship to the one rep maximum you can lift (%1RM). This is [...]
A trend has emerged with people contacting me, and I would like to cut this one off as early as possible. The marker is typically started with something like this “…I recently implemented the Gym Movement Protocol and I have been making the best progress of my life ect, ect, ect MY ONLY REGRET IS [...]
The surest way to gauge progress is to have a log you can refer to. You check today’s numbers against a previous workout and they’ve either gone up or down. If they’ve gone up, you celebrate and keep going forward. If they’ve gone down, you can reevaluate and take a tour of your training log [...]
Recently I have stepped on a lot of people’s toes, so I am going to use my super powers of better to try and meet them where they are at and hopefully put some more pep in their step. I understand I have distressed some of you, for this this I have wrote the following [...]
Competition scares the hell out of me. It always has. My approach to competition used to be: I’ll do it…but only if I have to. In my sport: no gi BJJ (yes, it’s only a sport), if I want to see how my game is going to compare, competing in a tournament is a great [...]
The idea is pretty simple- move as much weight as fast as possible. I have been able to work this now 31 days out of the last 35…which is pretty bad ass. When I first started playing with this, I was urged to “pace” my sets by many people who think themselves experts, but pacing is basically standing [...]
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