Category Archives: Program Design

Health and Weight Loss 35

The thirty-fifth tip on health and weight loss. All right. How we doing? Back again. Bud Jeffries. strongerman.com. superhumantraining.com. Here’s another tip. Today’s tip, if I had to give it a title, would be “Don’t Change With the Wind”. Most of the people, when they get out there, they get into the health and fitness [...]
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Health and Weight Loss 33

The thirty-third tip on health and weight loss. All right, here we are. Back again. More tips on health and fat loss, super strength, super fitness. Listen, one of the things you really need to learn about is, how to take care of yourself. One of the big things in doing that, and the tip [...]
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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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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 #5

Preplan, simplify, preset, de-clutter and shut up. Often a large portion of time in any one workout is spent setting up on deciding what to do next. Always go into a workout with a plan (you must balance this with the need to be adaptable i.e., if things are rockin’ and you’re about to set [...]
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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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Short Workouts Tip #2

You don’t need a lot of volume if you make training hard enough and you don’t need a lot of volume for strength except in special situations. Both of the routines I mentioned yesterday that led me to my all time best in those lifts only contained five to eight sets total and most of [...]
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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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Survival Training, How to do it all

So how can we train all the physical abilities mentioned in the last couple of posts in an effective manner and still have a real life?  Can it be done?  Absolutely! Just make sure you get reality training with good tools that cover a lot of ground at once.  Here’s a sample schedule: 1)      Once [...]
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