This video is the fourth in a series of interviews with my strength and conditioning MMA students. This one features Josh Baccallao.
For more ideas on this training check out the recent article on Dragondoor – Gazellasaurus Rex or Super Strength and Endurance for Martial Arts.
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This video is the third in a series of interviews with my strength and conditioning MMA students. This one features Derrick Stansberry who you’ve likely seen featured in other videos on this site like this heavy double windmill.
For more ideas on this training check out the recent article on Dragondoor – Gazellasaurus Rex or Super Strength and Endurance for Martial Arts.
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This video is the second in a series of interviews with my strength and conditioning MMA students. This one features Dakota Ravine.
For more ideas on this training check out the recent article on Dragondoor – Gazellasaurus Rex or Super Strength and Endurance for Martial Arts.
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If you don’t remember reading on this blog before you should be paying attention to the following words, “Balance is the key to everything you do.” You’ll hear me repeat that over and over and over again be it balance of physical training, balance of physical, spiritual life, balance in the way you eat, balance in the way you rest, balance in your relationships or in your business. Every part of your life requires balance to work optimally. And there are many things that waiting can do for you that is positive. For instance waiting till you find the right person before you get married is a very smart move. Waiting till you’re recovered to go into a hard training session is also very good, but there are some things that are huge mistake on waiting on and this is what I want to talk about.
Waiting for other’s approval to do things you want to do is usually a mistake. Now if you’re under 18 and you’re waiting for your parents so you can do something that’s a whole different situation and if you’re waiting for some massive legal loop hole to be able to smoke something that’s illegal in most of America that’s also not what I’m talking about. What I’m talking about is the way you train, the way you live, the way you do anything. If you wait on other people’s approval to set the wheels in motion you’ll be waiting forever.
I have a very open mind and a very open way of training. If you break down what I do there are elements from almost every hardcore, physical sport, competition and strength style . For instance elements of power lifting, Olympic lifting , All-Around lifting, old style strongman, new style competition strongman, Kettlebell lifting, bodyweight exercises, Indian clubs and a dozen more . This is also inclusive of many martial arts and energy styles. However if I was waiting around for the approval from any one of those communities I wouldn’t actually be doing the job that belongs to me which is making myself better and making myself happy and getting the results that I want.
I found the combination that I like to train, that works for me, but doesn’t create damage and is the optimal one for me to make that progress whether makes any of the rest of them happy or not . That applies to every area of your life . There are obviously some things that are a stretch such as stealing $10,000,000 even if you find the legal loop hole to do it. This is never going to be morally defensible but again that’s not what I’m talking about. If you’re waiting on your success to be dictated by other people – your physical success, your mental success or spiritual success then you’re going to be waiting your whole life. Don’t wait! Most things are best done on your first reaction and by jumping into the fray. When you start to train give it all you got. Train. Be smart, have a well thought out plan, learn about all the factors you need and get our materials to help learn about that too. Don’t wait around. You don’t have to wait to live a life that you want. You don’t have to wait to have the physical spiritual and mental attributes that you want. Just choose to do what is necessary to get them.
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 information in a public way that’s easy to handle for my life and schedule. I have a bunch of new PR’s and if you don’t follow on Facebook or Twitter you might not know that. Noah has also had a bunch of PR’s Bending the Red Nail, lifting a huge stone and dropping 45 pounds of bodyweight which is all great stuff for his personal bests.
If your training isn’t taking your personal bests in many directions, most of the time maybe you ought be looking at what’s wrong in your set up.
I’ve had a couple of personal bests recently and I’ve been doing some things differently. I spent most of the summer doing a variation of easy strength and will be telling you about that in later upcoming dvds and information on the super human training website in which I did frequent lifting and pushed to a different style. Now I’ve switched focus and doing more volume and working on the base of general movement of strength that I’m building. At the beginning of summer I curled a 200 pound barbell and more recently curled the 200 pound barbell for 35 repetitions in one workout. That’s not 35 repetitions straight but 35 total reps in one workout. That’s pretty good progress in a 12 to 14 week period.
I’ve also been doing a lot of one-arm Kettlebell push presses working with a much heavier Kettlebell and have recently had a personal best of 150 total repetitions in the workout with a 130 pound Kettlebell. These are moving towards explorations of a whole different kind of strength than I’ve experimented with before but that’s part of the point. That’s why I’m here. That’s what I love to do is build new roads into strength and endurance. Also if you didn’t see the Facebook and Twitter feed in early September, on my birthday I knocked out a serious challenge to myself just to see if I could do it. I haven’t been doing any super heavy Partials for a while, but I constantly stay in touch with a reasonably heavy partial, but hadn’t done any superheavy ones in several years and I decided to knock out a really heavy quarter squat and did 1500 pounds . Keep in mind that’s with a 120 pound body weight loss from the last time I performed that lift with that weight on the bar. Then I decided to take the swing further than I’ve ever done doing 4000 total swing repetitions in 2:50:00 as a challenge to myself for turning 38.
That’s what I want you to think about. Constantly challenging yourself, constantly improving your strength and endurance, striving for vitality in your personal goals, advancing in every area and every type of strength and getting better. It doesn’t take that much. I train less than 3 hours per week. Now obviously not on a super endurance challenge like that that’s 3 to 4 hours long that’s different, but normally it’s less than 3 hours per week. That is very efficient from a training perspective and you ought to have that same efficiency.
What kind of PRs have you achieved lately? Tell us about them in the comments section or send us a message and let us know! We want to hear from you and where your training is going.
And you should check out the new Super Vitality Course and my newest book I Will Be Iron for many more training and PR generating ideas.
So it’s been a while since we released anything new, but we are on the ball, on the way and about to drop some really cool stuff into the new information sphere.
Two new projects I specfically want to talk to you about – the first is a book, dvd and cd course that you’ll be able to buy within the week and in two formats. A basic course which is just the book and then the full course which entails the book, dvds and cds package. This new course is called, “Super Vitality.” It’s an exploration and specific training program meant to take on every piece of the puzzle you need for building super human energy, recovery and along with it the concurrent strength, endurance and vitality that everybody should have.
I believe we should be walking around with the energy to live life not just to exist and this is how we take it on. I don’t believe anyone has every fully explored and put into practice routines that cover every type of strength. In fact we cover 14 different types of strength endurance and physical movement for recovery that needs to be addressed for ultimate energy along with all the lifestyle factors. Putting them very specfically into routines that at the same moment address subtle energy, breathing, pure upper-end physical strength, extended range in strength, explosive strength, flowing movement, explosive movement, hard cardiovascular challenge, extended third-way cardio, mobility, flexibility and recovery all at the same time and have it set so that it is in inherent within the routines themselves.
I think it’ll be an incredible help to many people in building a lifelong amount of dynamic physical energy and vitality to apply to any concept and any venture they wish to put their wholeself into. You’re just not everything you could be if you don’t have all the energy that’s truly possible and you don’t have it unless you train it and this gives you all those things and much more. There are also some cool surprise people who contributed to this project.
The next is tenatively entitled, “Savage Strength.” This is an exploration of: What would you do to train to become more than a normal human? What would you do to train to become almost a fictional superhero, a pre-dawn of time man? A man who is closer to animal in strength and reaction time than human? A man who has all the power and ferocity of an animal with the intelligence of a civilized modern man?
Much of our modern life has made us soft. We don’t do the things necessary to give ourselves what our ancestors had in nature. For instance our bones are less dense so we give you a specific way to train for that. Our endurance is phenomenally less so we give you a way to train for that. Our ability to cover distances is less so we give you a way to train for that. Our fighting, crunching strength is far less unless you train for it and I believe we have put together a program that covers simple bases yet at the same time gives you the utmost maximum strength, endurance strength all rolled into one to give you that primordial savage strength that truthfully all of us wish we had. These tie together in that if you have a vitality that’s lost to modern soft civilized man you can be more, you can take full advantage of the modern life we have if you have the vitality to do so. That’s what so much of our training these days is based on. That’s why I took the kettlebell swing as far as I could to make it incredible.
Speaking of kettlebell training – It’s okay to tell everyone now for those of you who don’t know – Dragon Door is going to publish my kettlebell book, “I Will Be Iron.” Tenatively that will be out in December and I’ll give you more details as we get ready for its release.
All of these books will come with companion DVDs, but we decided that to get that to the widest possible kettlebell audience and to help the most people Dragon Door was the way to go. I also wanted to work with the originators of the kettlebell resurgence in the US and my friends Pavel and John at Dragon Door thought this was a good collaborative project. Look forward to it and the others very soon. They will most likely be released in the order I mentioned them so start looking for them beginning in the next few days.
Noah's finished red nail
If you know anything about bending you know that the first time you bend a big piece of steel it can be very tough and take much longer than usual or anything you could do in a show. It took him between five and ten minutes and it was pretty amazing. We believe this makes him by far the youngest person in the world to bend the red nail particularly without exorbitant wraps or anything like that. So what brought this about? He has a desire to do it. He finds it interesting. We never push, chide or force that on him, but we encourage him to strive for his goals. He also has developed over a period of years a level of mental toughness that is difficult to fathom to most people. This is a major boost in bending.
Why? Because bending is about imposing your will on something that does not want to have its matter changed. Steel almost seems to have a will of its own and the ability to simply not quit and push yourself beyond what you think are normal limits. He’s also done a great deal of training recently. Off and on – nothing excessive, but in the last seven months he’s bent in bursts of lower volume and then higher volume with some regularity, taking breaks when he needed to and then progressed from the 60D penny nail, the grade 5 bolt, the grade 8 bolt and now the Red Nail.
He believes some of things which helped him in training for this are kettlebell swings and snatches and playing with Indian Clubs. He has the ones from Strongergrip. They make incredible training tools and he likes to work with them for wrist leverage as well as the shoulder stability and general conditioning that you get from training with clubs. His combination of doing them when he feels like it which ends up being several times per week has really benefited him. He combines this with some intense bending which would be max effort along with volume bending which is more muscle and endurance building. This also builds technique and the same with levering and kettlebell work. He also includes occasional stints of max effort verses occasional high volume and endurance work which is the formula we have established as the road to super muscle, super health and super strength. It works.
It definitely works for him, because that’s an amazing feat for anybody, anywhere much less a 15 year old. Even if he’s genetically gifted, he still put in the work and did the job. Massive congratulations to him and indication that this method simply works!
We’ve got a new workshop in the line ups.
You don’t want to miss this. It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity to get to train with Dennis Rogers himself.
Not to mention me 
And my partner Logan.
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If you want to learn how to do feats of strength, more on how to train like the oldtime strongmen, and even make money by becoming a performing strongman this is the workshop for you.
God bless,
Bud Jeffries
P.S. Plus we’ve even got some BIG special bonuses for you when you sign up too!
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Here’s another clip on the subject of building a foundation in order to be able to do feats of strength. This one focuses on the explosive power needed for doing many feats, using a simple dumbbell.
You’ll find a lot more training ideas in the new 4 DVD set Feats of Strength: How to Train and Perform like an Oldtime Strongman. Check it out today.
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Super Vitality 1
I want to talk to you about a brand new super course that we’re bringing out right now on vitality and super human energy. Listen, I think that’s the biggest thing missing from most people’s lives. The want to get out of bed in the morning and do stuff. The ability to have energy that lasts all the time. To have energy that gives you the life you want. To accomplish things. To study to learn to be better. To meditate. To pray. To do all the things you might want to do to have the best life. If that’s climb a mountain, lift the heaviest thing you can lift, make a million bucks, or just being in love with your life, or whatever it is you want to do, I want you to have the energy to do that. I want to give you this course to give you all the things to do that.
Did you know there’s about a dozen physical traits that you need to train for optimal physical vitality? And each individual trait has it’s own hand to lend in your physical energy. And if you don’t put them all together in the right way then you won’t know how to do it and you won’t get it done. In fact, most people spend hours and hours training all these things separately and they don’t really know how to do it. Especially in moving towards giving you ultimate vitality and energy. The ability to resist and become incredibly rugged in life and have the energy you want. This course will show you how to do that.
One of the things you need to train is grip strength. That seems odd but let me tell you why. One of my friends Chuck Halbakken is a big feats of strength guy and for training people in mobility and out of pain. Also factors for being incredible in energy. One of the things he talks about and one of the smartest things I’ve ever heard people say about this is that the hands, the nerve centers of the hands, has an incredibly large area and tie in to the brain. The stronger your hands are, the better that center of the brain activity, the better your energy is, if you follow that line.
Here’s just one simple way to do that. What I’m going to do is a bottoms up clean and press with the kettlebell. A very simple thing to do. One of the off handed things you can do from this course to help you get incredibly strong and vital. So what I’m going to do is lift this bell, but instead of letting the bell turn as I go, I keep the bell upright and straight and press it overhead. It forces my hand to fire much harder and therefore every muscle along the chain all the way to my brain, sending greater signals for energy throughout the whole body.
Simple exercise but it covers a lot of ground. A lot of what we’re going to talk about in this course which you need, that gives you massive amount of training on everything you need for energy. One of the things we’re going to talk about is that hand strength and nervous energy throughout the whole body. Make sure you get it.