Archive for the ‘Instructional’ Category

It’s been a bit longer since my last post and it’s all Big Bear’s fault.  We took a gym “retreat” with 30 of our members and friends to go snowboarding for the weekend and I came back with a nasty sinus infection.  It’s left my brain mushy and every time I sat down to try [...]

Received a bunch of feedback from the strength snapshot yesterday regarding the Turkish Get-Up so thought it may be of use to post instructions on how to do it. The Turkish Get-Up can be a somewhat controversial exercise as you have circles that swear by and others that never touch it.  To me, if you [...]

Today I am going to toss you guys two exercises to start doing that help in a variety of ways, mostly geared towards strength.  I like both of them because they are without heavy load and any time you can work on strength without the need for 300 pounds, it is a good thing.  While [...]

(That’s what she said??) Deadlift day, baby!  The best day of the week as there is no better way to start the week than by picking up something challenging and putting it back down a few times, and you know for a fact that having done it right, you will leave the gym stronger than [...]