Tag Archives: Ropes

A Trained Secret – Find your Nemesis

I don’t know if you’ve ever considered this and most people have from a physical perspective, but most have not from an endurance or total package type of training. The kind of thing we’ve moved to doing. Everybody talks about in strength work on your weakness, but what you don’t talk about is health and [...]
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Keeping up with workouts while you’re on the road

It’s a common excuse people use for not working out:   “I was on the road, I was traveling, I was on vacation.” This year I’ll be on the road till June 15, 2011 and since strength is my job I can’t give excuses.   Not only do I have kettlebells, dumbbells and ropes in tow [...]
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Some seminars you better be going to

If you haven’t signed up already for our Strongman Seminar on July 24th at Crossfit Gulf Coast you’re missing the boat. It’s going to be an incredible seminar with myself and special guest Scott Weech teaching lots of techniques on how to perform a phenomenal array of strongman implements; stones, sandbags, barrels, logs, yoke, farmer’s [...]
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John Brookfield Battling Ropes Seminar

Another seminar you shouldn’t miss! My friend John Brookfield is doing a seminar in Tampa, Florida at the Next Level Training Center.  This seminar is special for multiple reasons.  First if you haven’t seen John’s Battling Ropes and tried them then you’re missing out on one of the most innovative and effective training tools in [...]
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History of Cables

We’ve all seen the old spring type expanders lying around, left over from dad’s workout days in the ’50′s. But what you probably don’t know is that the origins of this training is actually thousands of years old. There is some debate, but I believe it stems from the training of archers in ancient military [...]
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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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Powerlifter Scott Weech

Our next call features Scott Weech, World Record Holder in the 100% Raw Federation and competing Strongman. He’s put up some impressive numbers and if you’d like to do the same be sure to get on the call. If you haven’t signed up yet you can do so right here (plus you can watch one [...]
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Next Call Featuring John Brookfield

Our next call features John Brookfield. If you’ve spent any time in the real training world you already know who John is and what he can do. We’ll be talking about his amazing feats of strength both past and present. Most people don’t realize just the incredible endurance these take(like pulling a huge truck for [...]
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