I grew up in a fairly small town. My friends and I played outside every day until our parents yelled our names across the neighborhood to get home for dinner. We pretty much all did cub scouts and boy scouts. I couldn’t tell you exactly who was in my den, but I do remember having … Read More
Lets imagine this scenario for a minute. Two fighters are in the cage ready for battle. They have equal skill, reach and training background. Fighter #1 doesn’t strength train much, isn’t very strong and doesn’t do any extra conditioning besides sparring. Fighter #2 can deadlift more than 2x bodyweight, he can perform strict pull-ups with 50+ … Read More
I have been away in beautiful North Conway, NH teaching a StrongFirst Kettlebell User Course so today I’m reposting a slightly edited post from the Skill of Strength blog…it’s worth mentioning again! Thats me, no really 😉 I have been lifting weights since I was 14. I have been a strength coach for almost 10 … Read More
Patient, passionate, kind, encouraging, caring, non-judgemental, loving, nurturing, a good listener, accountable, professional, sense of humor, honest, humble, always willing to learn. To me, these are just some of the traits of the mentors in my life. I am grateful to have met these people. They have always listened patiently when I have a question. … Read More
A few weeks back Dan had asked for a quick description on how to do the kettlebell swing. This was on the RKC only forum. I had a few minutes so I wrote something up quick. I didn’t think much of it until my buddy texted me today and said that Dan had mentioned my … Read More
This past saturday I attended the MBSC winter seminar. I was pretty fired up to attend this year, mainly because Dan John was speaking. I have seen Mike speak as well but since I live and New England and Mike speaks quite a bit around here, it was a treat to hear Dan’s lecture. I … Read More
If you aren’t familiar with the story about the 12+ University of Iowa football players who suffered from severe over training, here is the link: http://thegazette.com/2011/01/25/ui-release-12-football-players-in-hospital-with-undisclosed-illness/ These Strength Coaches are completely irresponsible, lazy, thick-headed, meat- headed morons. They put their athletes at risk and could have literally killed them. They should all be fired and … Read More
I rip of all of these people: Gray Cook Brett Jones Dan John Dr. Cobb Mike Boyle Dave Whitley BJ Baker Eric Cressey Dr. Stuart McGill Pavel Tsatsouline Marty Gallagher Paul Chek Florence Peterson Kendall Mike Robertson and about 100 more 🙂 If you don’t recognize these names, get reading and start ripping them off. … Read More
I always here people say ” Man, that was the toughest workout ever.” Hard workouts are easy to formulate, and here is the secret. Stupidity+Tons of Reps+ limited recovery+poor choice of weight+ highly technical lifts performed while fatigued = a dumb/hard workout One more thing, a high powered stimulant always helps So if you want … Read More
5×2 weighted pull-ups 45 x2 55 x2 65 x2 75 x2 85 x2 RKC snatch test with a 20k 4 min flat Gettin back into it again 🙂