12 Gifts to Warm the Heart of Your Anti-Social Friend
There are many versions of such misanthropes around (with home gyms of their own), and while this list will make their days, months, and years, it will make any true appreciator of strength training happy.
Kettlebells for Strongman
For the Strongman athlete, kettlebells are a great accessory after your main lifts. Here are a few of my favorites for accessory work. These exercises are best done with higher reps.
WATCH: Chris Duffin Interviews Kettlebell Expert Joe Daniels
In this first interview within a 3-part series, we discuss the commonalities in our training philosophies and address methods for staying in touch with your body.
Kettlebells for Conditioning and Strength
Build conditioning, power and athleticism with simple and easy-to-learn kettlebell workouts.
Elitefts™ Kettlebell Swing w/Bands (Hips &Bell)
Kettlebell swings with bands around the kettlebell and bands around the hips
Elitefts™ Kettlebell Swing 101
Teaching the kettlebell swing to a larger group of athletes made simple
Three-Way Matrix Upper Body Hypertrophy Emphasis
If you want to upgrade to a 2XL t-shirt, this program can get that done.
The Flexible Periodization Method: Program Design with Kettlebells (Part...
Jensen’s conclusion to the Flexible Periodization Method series.
How to Use Finishers for Serious Results
Workout finishers have been a popular addition to the training world in the last year and for good reason.
Seriously Incorporating Strongman...Seriously
Strongman training has always been considered circus sideshow-ish.
You Have to Swing Them Bells
Before Jim Wendler goes all medieval on my arse and tells me to find a hill and sprint up it until I lose my cookies or grow a pair, indulge me for a moment.
Kettlebells Make a Good Braking System
The main functions of the core are stabilization, rotation/anti-rotation, and anti-extension.
Top Five Kettlebell Exercises for Football Strength
Kettlebells are a perfect tool when it comes to building strength, explosiveness, and flexibility for football.
What I Learned from Running a Warehouse Gym, Part Two
In my first article, I detailed how two weeks coaching taught me more than all the books, articles, blogs, and papers that I’d read in the preceding year. These three weeks taught me just as much if not more.
The Top Get Faster for Football Exercises: Part II
Any exercise that hits the hamstrings, glutes, and quads hard is going to be good for getting faster on the football field.
Walking Two-Hand Kettlebell swings
This exercise is an excellent movement for improving conditioning and improving strength endurance in the posterior chain.
Side Plank with Kettlebell
Perform a side plank and hold a kettlebell in your top hand, with your arm extended straight.
Kettlebell Pulls with Sled Straps
Just loop together as many sled straps as possible to a few heavy kettlebells and go to town pulling hand over hand.
Kettlebell Bear Crawl
This is a great conditioning exercise as well as a great exercise for your shoulders, abs and well, your whole body!
Front Raises with Kettlebells
This movement is performed the same way you would a standard dumbbell front raise except you will be using Kettle bells.
Elbows-Out Extensions with KB
Finally a way to blast your triceps for guy with beat up shoulders and elbows.
Double Kettlebell Rack Walks
These are excellent for developing work capacity and strengthening your trunk and core area.
Double-Kettlebell High Pulls
Another plus is that there truly is no resisting the bells on the way down.
Double-Arm Swing (Squat Position)
Initiate movement by swinging the kettlebell backwards through your legs
Bentover Rear Delt with KBs
This movement is performed the same way as rear lateral raises with dumbbells.
Bear Crawl Sled Drags with Kettlebells
This movement is one of my favorite sled training exercises, but I guess it can go here as well!
1 Arm Kettlebell Dead Position
This is the position from which any 1 arm pull, clean, snatch, etc will be initiated from if you opt to perform the lift from the floor.
Innovative Training: Band Suspended Weight—Not Just for the Bench
Using band suspended weight, Justin discusses a few movements that will not only keep your workouts challenging and fun but will turn your core into concrete.
Warm Up Essentials
The cookie cutter approach to exercise doesn’t make sense to me, especially when people are stuck behind desks (sustained lumbar flexion, shortened hip flexors) all day or opt to train with movement impairments. Corrective strategies are necessary, and everyone needs to have a static and dynamic evaluation. It’s common to confuse being strong with being healthy.
Seven Strength and Conditioning Tools for Firefighters, Part 1
Have you ever grabbed one of those muscle magazines while waiting to check out at the supermarket and skimmed through it? They are filled with pictures and workouts of bodybuilders with awesome genetics who train with the primary purpose of looking good in a Speedo.
Filling in the Holes, Part II
Previously I discussed how adding in various training tools can “fill in the holes” of standard barbell lifting. Kettlebells have gained a stronger and stronger following in the strength training community, but sleds and sandbags are two tools that have yet to gain their recognition.
Field Day
Field day at elementary school means dunk tanks, water balloons, Italian ice, hanging with your friends, cool games and a bunch of other cool stuff.
