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Health and Weight Loss 26

The twenty-sixth tip on health and weight loss. Hey, another tip today. Bud Jeffries, Strongerman.com. This one’s a pet peeve with me. I spent a lot of time training young athletes over a period of time, trained football teams. You know what the first question most of them ask me in their trip to a [...]
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Health and Weight Loss Tips 2

The second video in the series on health and weight loss. Hey! Pay attention again. Bud Jeffries, www.strongerman.com, giving you the second tip on strength, health, fitness and fat loss. Let me tell you, I spent a lot of time in my youth dieting because at that time the country was getting really serious about [...]
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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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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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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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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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Make Your Own T Handle Kettlebell

I’ve been talking about kettlebells a lot here recently and for good reason. They’re great tools for building strength and endurance. You know about the large swing numbers I’ve been doing in my training. But sometimes I go in the other direction, using much more weight, well over 100 lbs. The problem is getting a [...]
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