The Pursuit Of Strength In All Its Forms
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“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 [...]
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 [...]
Like many things in life, This probably started because of a girl. We met. We got married. We got comfortable. We got fat. Leading from the front, My wife started working out. I followed. She bought a book called Body For Life and started the challenge. I followed. We got great results and outgrew our [...]
People are talking, and they are talking specifically about YOU. Those of you who are better everyday. They are whispering about a group who lifts 50 thousand pounds a night 4 days a week. A group who breaks PRs every time they exercise. A group who takes in all of the people who have no [...]
by Frankie Faires In the first semester of my senior high school “honors” english class, our teacher sat in the back of the room grading papers and had us read out loud the stories from our text. This was a good practice considering I hadn’t had to do so since third grade. 3A schools in [...]
Everyday a new chance for you to shine. Everyday offers the promise of better. Perpetual Progress is forward movement. Our metric is simple-Improvement everytime. More weight on the bar, more reps in the bank, faster, easier, cleaner, smoothier. It does not matter what your goal is, it does not matter what tools you choose. We [...]
I am on the road in St Paul attending a course with Frankie, Brad, Mike T, Chuck, and Marty. While i am away i would like you to continue to share your progress with each other and your observations with your training. Observe, Ask a question, gather data, test it, screen data, share data, and [...]
It happened yesterday, it will happen today, and I am certain it will occur tomorrow Lift 395lbs on the double overhand axle, an extreme example of what i am talking about You can pretend you don’t want it; you can label yourself any way you want. You can arrange your goals any way you want, [...]
“Where are you at with your fitness training?” This is a question I ask when anyone contacts me with training questions. Technically there is no right or wrong answer. I simply want to hear the verbiage used to describe whatever actions the person is taking when they “go workout.” As I sit here tonight, reflecting [...]
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