I think I Would be Afraid if my Kid was this Strong
One of our readers recently sent me this video. We talk all the time about true power and strength being your ability to control your own body. The boy in this video is capable of doing extremely advanced power moves at a very young age. For many years there has been debates about how old [...]
Fitness Tip of the Week #13 Are You Doing Resistance Training?
A large percentage of people sign up for gym memberships are doing so in order to lose weight. I see so many ads on the Internet that all have a secret formula, diet, or whatever it may be to lose weight. They even have a reality TV show dedicated to weight loss. Well, since it [...]
Does Training with Ankle Weights on Really Help?
Inside the training center at the school I work at we have several sets of ankle weights. We utilize them for doing various hip strengthening exercises. Commonly however the athletes ask about why we do not train in them more frequently for things like running or agility drills. The basketball team even tells me that [...]
This is Scary Stuff! Bench Press Injury to Stafon Johnson
If you have not seen the article on the football player from the University of Southern California being injured while doing bench press, here is a link to one. While doing a team weight training workout he lost the bar out of his right hand and the bar fell straight onto his neck. Here is [...]
Exercise of the Week Workout Video #3 Strength Training Program
Here is a video that shows you all of the moves we incorporated into the exercise of the week program strength routine. Below you will find the sets and reps to do with each routine if you want to try it out on your own. As always it is dangerous to just jump into any [...]
Exercise of the Week #29 Pendulum Full Situps
EXERCISE OF THE WEEK #29 PENDULUM FULL SITUPS
The 4 Laws of Training, Another way to Look at our Philosophy
We have been working for the last several month on streamlining our training philosophy. For the last 8 years I have had a chance to begin looking at how to train the human body the way it was intended. We have put up many philosophy posts on this in the past and even though they [...]
Exercise of the Week #28 Elbow Active Bridge
EXERCISE OF THE WEEK #28 Elbow Active Bridges
Exercise of the Week #27 Weighted Lateral Leg Lifts
EXERCISE OF THE WEEK #27 Weighted Lateral Leg Lifts