Category Archives: Squats

Short Workouts Tip #1

By admin | Published: March 1, 2010

In our recent survey one of the big questions was, “What is the roadblock keeping you from getting super strength/endurance?” Almost fifty percent of the huge response we got said they just didn’t have enough time. So here we’ll start tips on getting lots of results very fast, with a very limited training time. Realize you [...]

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The Point of Diminishing Returns

By admin | Published: February 8, 2010

I had a strength coach in college who first started talking to me about, “a point of diminishing returns.” At the time I heavily disagreed with him. In fact for the most part I still do. His premise was that after a player could squat 500lbs or so (really talking about Linemen in football), [...]

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Scott Weech’s Determination

By admin | Published: January 27, 2010

Last night we had our call with Scott Weech. Watch this video then keep reading. What happened was Scott’s new squat suit threw him out of the groove which resulted in what could have been a very bad accident. Luckily no one was seriously hurt. But here’s the thing, Scott went right back and did another [...]

Also posted in Amazing Lifts, Strongman Training, Super Strength, Video | Tagged Bench, Bud, Consistency, Exercises, God, Groove, Jeffries, Olympic Lifting, One Thing, Squats, Strongman, Walks, Workout, Yoke | 2 Comments

Take one thing as far as you can

By admin | Published: December 23, 2009

In exercise there has always been a debate on using just a few exercises and pushing them very hard so that you are strong all over or using the widest variety possible and hoping that will make you overall strong. The difference between just getting a huge power squat versus a good squat, as [...]

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What’s Your Weak Link?

By admin | Published: November 24, 2009

Most people spend a lot of time looking for the perfect way to train. Many times they do this because they think that if they find a new or different way to train they’ll suddenly make progress. Yet often what’s really holding them back isn’t the program that they’re using, it’s a weak link somewhere [...]

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Adapt, Improvise and Overcome

By admin | Published: November 18, 2009

I believe that’s one of the mottos of the marine corp who recently had their 234th birthday. Since I just brought that up – congratulations to all of you. All the marines I’ve known have been good guys and do their corp proud. Even bigger than that – God bless all the soldiers of the [...]

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The Usual Suspects – Part 2

By admin | Published: November 13, 2009

Let’s continue with the thought on finding the important patterns in training. This is all really about narrowing down what’s important and making the most of your limited time by spending it on those things. To do that you need to dissect training not in its minute detail but in a broad overview. Let me explain [...]