The Pursuit Of Strength In All Its Forms
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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 [...]
On October 16, 2008 I picked up an 8kg kettlebell and started my first workout in a little over five weeks. I had to wear a sock over my left hand to dull the pain. My presses were awkward, my body would curl to the right when I swung with my left hand and everything [...]
For the last two years, a very particular kettlebell movement has held my attention: The bottoms up press. This movement is very simple, you press a weight overhead. The challenge is the bell is inverted. This movement taxes the hands and wrist in an unusual way. I was able to bottoms-up press a 32kg bell [...]
I couldn’t figure out what to do since I had a cold and it was raining and there was lightning outside, so I decided to go outside and stick a heavy kettlebell into the sky and tempt the gods. And it was easy. It was really, really easy. Anyone can do this, and there’s minimal [...]
The kettlebell clean and jerk, or “Long Cycle” shown here with 56kg bell If were only going to chose one kettlebell drill, i would like to suggest this one. The long cycle is a clean followed by a jerk. The two lifts are done in succession and it can be a vigorous full body workout. The [...]
This weekend while doing some spring cleaning I took a few minutes to flip through some old training journals. 1999: Training was centered around Power factor training. Workouts were infrequent with very high intensity and high volume. Mobility training and skill work were both nonexistent. I do not recall anyone ever talking about these things [...]
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