Category Archives: Conditioning Exercise

Getting Started In Super Strength And Endurance – Part 3

This is part 3 in a series on Getting Started in Super Strength and Endurance. For part 1 click here. For part 2 click here. More questions to answer and consider in getting started on your journey to super strength and endurance. How much time do I have available for training? How long per session [...]
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Sledgehammer Swinging Video

There were a lot of comments on the previous posts about sledgehammer swinging. I’ll have more on that in the future, answering many of your great questions. But for now you can see me in action swinging around this heavy sledgehammer. If you don’t happen to have a sledgehammer as big as this (and I [...]
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3 Tips for Super High Rep Sledge Swinging

In the last post I talked about my recent foray into super high reps with a heavy sledge. It’s bad to the bone stuff building super strength, endurance, power, ab and grip strength. If you decide to jump into the deep end of the pool here you should build up to it slowly or already [...]
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New PR 2,000 Heavy Sledge Hammer Swings

Sometimes you just gotta get after it! The other night’s workout was one of those times. I didn’t plan to go crazy, but I did anyway. It was a little strange. On my plan was a new training/rehab/prehab style Eischens Yoga (which I picked up from Jon Hinds at Monkey Bar Gym, thanks Jon, and [...]
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Getting Started In Super Strength And Endurance Part 2

So you’ve spent a bit of time answering the important questions in part one of this article. What do I think is important for strength and endurance? What do I know or have access to? What fits me? Well here are some more thoughts and questions for you. Each individual style of strength has its [...]
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Short Workouts Tip #4

Stop resting and learn to mix sets/exercises. If you watch most lifters workout you’ll notice that most of the actual workout is rest periods. That’s what ends up making a workout long or take up a lot of time unless it is specifically intended to be very long. (i.e. 100 miles on a bike is [...]
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Short Workouts Tip #3

Even a good part of your conditioning should take very little time. When you have more time, train more but don’t think that limited time can’t be very productive. If you’re reading this site you’ve probably heard what I’ve been doing in training the kettlebell swing in the last year or so. Some really long [...]
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Shooting Under Pressure

In previous posts on survival I talked about doing your training so that you can survive any scenario. Here’s a video that illustrates shooting under pressure. God forbid you ever need to use it but what if you have to shoot a gun and your life depends on it. There’s a good chance you won’t [...]
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Grip Conditioning Workout

Here’s a cool one that’s a version of grip training mixed with conditioning that I’ve been experimenting with. 100 plate/stair rows 150 bottoms up kettlebell cleans 200 pushups 150 one arm D-handle deadlifts 100 pinch grip deadlifts You can do this by finishing each of the exercises individually or by going in a circuit or [...]
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How Do I Get Started in Super Strength and Endurance?

I was reading through some of the responses to our recent survey regarding how to best get the right training info to all you out there and a few of the comments/questions struck me. This is one of them. The gentleman asked basically, “I have lots of info on training but how do I get [...]
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