P360 Ladies Proving Strong and Feminine Can Marry

Posted: January 27, 2012 in Motivation, Training Articles
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I freaking love my job.  On a weekly basis I get to see folks achieve things that often times they’ve previously vocalized they would not be able to do (male deadlift of 400#, female doing full strict pull-ups, etc) and it absolutely makes my day when these folks not only do those thing, but blow past them as if they were a mere pot hole in the road.

Well, in this edition of me showing off my bad ass members we’re showing you four ladies that did some pretty outstanding stuff this week including a 285# deadlift, (2) 245# deadlifts and a three foot box jump.

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Get a…Jump…on Your Goals

Posted: January 26, 2012 in Training Articles
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I tried for about ninety seconds to think of the corniest possible name for this entry and pretty sure I succeeded.   Consideration was also given to “Jump Start Your Strength” but I didn’t want this to come off as a strength only blog entry.

I think it's California law that if a group of at least four girls are posing for a beach picture, they must jump awkwardly together.

In the past six months I have become stronger and leaner than I have ever been, and that includes my days as a college athlete.  My body fat generally sits at around 9-10% (depending on whether or not I’m treating myself to Chic-Fil-A after an 80-hour week), maximum pulls are right around 230% of body weight  and maximum overhead pushing capacity is around 140% and counting.  As I have put in much hard work, these are numbers I am proud of but not satisfied with and hope to continue to improve in 2012.

A few things have caused me to break the personal plateaus I had reached.

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8 Habits of The Lean and Strong

Posted: January 25, 2012 in Training Articles
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Everyone has most likely heard of or hopefully read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey.  It is a great book and one that I have read twice, one of those rare books that’s applicable to any career or life passion as it generally focuses on self-improvement and what you can do to set yourself up for success.

Philosophically, I can really get behind that as that’s that exactly what we preach in the gym.  Be better than the previous day.  Continuously seek improvement.  Never linger in the middle.

Reading that book a second time got me thinking about which habits the healthiest, strongest and leanest people typically follow. I study the industry very closely, keep up on my reading, have eleven years of tracked training progress for myself and a pretty decent hard drive of knowledge and in my opinion the most successful folks have a few actions in common.

Here are my 8 Habits of the Lean and Strong.

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Strength Exercise You Should Do & Juicing

Posted: January 24, 2012 in Instructional, Nutrition, Training Articles
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We will ultimately be posting how to’s for all of the major important lifts like deadlifts, hang cleans, jerk, etc. so that you can start to do them from your own gym.

That said, some of the best strength exercises are those that are used as a compliment to the larger lifts.  Often times lifting just 20 pounds as  in each hand as accessory work can help you towards huge strength increases.

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