Category Archives: Barbells

The Freedom of Strongman

By Bud Jeffries | Published: January 24, 2012

People ask me what I do professionally I have answered, “I am a powerlifter,” or a fighter or a highland games athlete or a football player or a grappler or a strongman. I can even say a professional and old time strongman when I’m answering the question about what I do and why am I [...]

Are you tired of answering this question?

By Bud Jeffries | Published: January 11, 2012

So if you have ever worked out, told anyone you worked out, look like you work out, have any reasonable set of muscles, ever spoken about weightlifting or strength training in any capacity, you inevitably get this question: “How much do you bench press?” That to me has become one of the most annoying questions [...]

Also posted in Hand Strength, Super Strength | Tagged Bench Press, bending nails, Strongman, Super Strength, upper body strength, whole body strength | 2 Comments

Lots of PRs if you haven’t been following us on Facebook and Twitter

By Bud Jeffries | Published: November 10, 2011

If you don’t know and you follow this site I keep a great deal of information on this site, but I keep my personal information and training on Facebook and Twitter. It’s the best way that I have to post the information that I want to share about my personal records and bests of training [...]

Also posted in Amazing Lifts, Challenge Workouts, Conditioning Exercise, Kettlebells, Super Strength, Training Ideas, Workouts | Tagged Barbell, Beginning Of Summer, Bodyweight, Different Style, Directions, Explorations, Facebook, Great Stuff, Nbsp, Noah, Personal Bests, Personal Information, Personal Records, Personal Training, Prs, Repetitions, Twitter, Upcoming Dvds, Variation, Workout | Leave a comment

Monster Conditioning Workout

By admin | Published: July 5, 2011

A short workout idea combining partial squats, dumbbell swings, and rolling for the full package in strength, endurance and athleticism. For more ideas on this check out Monster Conditioning Foundations: Super Strength and Endurance which is discounted the next couple of days only.

Also posted in Amazing Lifts, Conditioning Exercise, Dumbbells, Super Strength, Video, Workouts | Tagged Athleticism, Couple Of Days, Dumbbell, Foundations, Monster, Squats, Strength Endurance, Swings, Workout | 1 Comment

Check Out Mike Bruce

By admin | Published: June 14, 2011

Mike ‘the Machine’ Bruce wrote a blog about me recently, talked about strong man you should know. Now I am gonna do the same because definitely Mike is a strong man you should know. In fact, I don’t think there is anybody out there better at several of the feats that he does and it [...]

Also posted in Ab Strength, Amazing Lifts, Strongman Training, Super Strength | Tagged Adversity, Barbell, Brotherhood, Contraction, Crazy Stuff, Deadlifts, Dennis Rogers, Dumbbells, Feats, Giant, Hous, Muscular Body, Old School, Old Time, Partials, Period Of Time, Privilege, Repetition, Strong Man, Strongman | Leave a comment

What Training Tools Travels With Me?

By admin | Published: May 19, 2011

Living on the road during this tour is quite an enlightening experience. You have to really think about being efficient in what you do for training. And since the whole world isn’t necessarily into everything I do for training, I had to pare things down. Meaning bringing just a few things that I really wanted [...]

Also posted in Bodyweight Exercise, Cables, Conditioning Exercise, Dumbbells, Energy, Hand Strength, Kettlebells, Strongman Tour, Training Ideas | Tagged Bricks, Cops, Dumbbells, Feats, Gyms, Lot, Magnetic Balls, Masons, Partials, Physical Strength, Places In The World, Rocks, Shot Puts, Spring Tour, Squats, Stuff, Thousand Pounds, Tools, Training Tools, Truth, Winter And Spring, Workout | Leave a comment

Powerful Workout Combination

By admin | Published: May 16, 2011

There is a lot of things we are doing right now experimenting with a superhuman level of training performance. To build what I call super muscle. Also called Type Three muscle, the kind that’s building endurance and strength into the same fibers and building and unlocking an upper level of human capacity. Here is one [...]

Also posted in Amazing Lifts, Conditioning Exercise, Dumbbells, Energy, Super Strength, Workouts | Tagged Bones, Cardiovascular Capacity, Circular Movements, Dumbbells, Endurance, Fibers, Hidden Keys, Human Performance, Knock Out, Mental Focus, Monster, Physical Focus, Qi, Resistance, Squats, Tendons, Workout | Leave a comment

The Monster Conditioning Challenges

By admin | Published: March 23, 2011

You noticed we released a brand new series on Monster Conditioning. Let me tell you a little bit more about this series and what we’re going to be doing. Along the way we’re going to explain to you everything you need to know to get into incredible condition. Condition like most people have never thought [...]

Also posted in Challenge Workouts, Conditioning Exercise, Dumbbells, Workouts | Tagged 1000 reps, Barbell, Barbells, Challenge Workout, Challenges, Circular Motion, Combinations, Curls, dumbbell conditioning, Dumbbells, Exercise One, Exercises, Human Body, Little Bit, Monster, monster conditioning, Programming Perspective, Shape, Shrugs, Swing | Leave a comment

Barbell Conditioning 5

By admin | Published: January 27, 2011

The fifth in a series of videos on barbell conditioning showing you unconventional ways to train with a barbell. This video shows the barbell squat, kneel and stand a great way for building transitional strength from the ground up. Find tons more exercises only on the new Monster Conditioning DVD’s. The discount prices are only [...]

Also posted in Martial Arts, Squats, Video | Tagged Barbell, Exercises, Monster, New Dvd, Train Shows, Train Video, Unconventional Ways, Video Shows, Videos | 1 Comment

Barbell Conditioning 4

By admin | Published: January 25, 2011

The fourth in a series of videos on barbell conditioning showing you unconventional ways to train with a barbell. This video shows you one exercise of what I call Yoga Weightlifting with the one leg good morning. For more on Yoga Weightlifting get the new Monster Conditioning Barbells set here.