Super Human Strength

This is pretty crazy body control, if only!!




And for a 71 year Old - amazing. Let's hope we're in this kinda shape at that age!

Purposeful Primitive

If you're on the look out for a great christmas present to give to a strength and fitness loving friend or family member then you really should take a look at Purposeful Primitive
Got the book the other day and I must say it's a top read. Haven't read a book like this in a long time. It starts off with training programs, stories and a strip down of the training of 10 strength legends from Paul Anderson to Hugh Cassidy and breaks them down into usable formats for mere mortals.

Not only that but there some great sections on nutrition, fitness and mindset along with some fantastic srength and endurance stories along the way.

It's the kind of book you'll learn somethingfrom everytime you pick it up!


Check out the awesome book Purposeful Primitive at Amazon



The author of the book, Marty Gallagher has a section in the book entitled Progressive Pulls for posterior chain power. He has re-written this section over at Dragondoor here

Fitness Traditions - Follow No One

Sent this way by Mr Glass, brilliant video that you must watch all the way through! SO be told!

'Follow no-one, let your body lead you, if you follow anything other than your body you will eventually break your body'


This is Fitness Tips/The best Fitness Tip at it's best

Beast Kettlebell - Marcus Martinez

Marcus Martzinez of MBODYSTRENGTH demonstrating some kettlebell exercises with beast kettlebell.

Nice kettlebelling Marcus, especially like the hand drills




Got a great book for you to check out tomorrow


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Swingmas is Coming

Back to the swing!

Seen as Christmas is on it's way(as it usually is this time of year), I thought I would take another mini challenge as I have done in the past. Last years Kettlebell Challenge ended up in misery after I got fairly ill half way through it whilst also in the middle of DIY Hell with kitchen renovations.

Anyways, Bud Jeffries has got me going again and thought why not do a little sideliner with the Kettlebell Swing


My challenge to my self is 300 kettlebell swings 5 times per week with the 24kg bell

Simples



Kettlebell Swing Odyssey


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Caveman Training

Great video of Sean Sherk (former UFC champ) training for a fight with Tyson Griffin in the good old CAVEMAN STYLE (via Bazsika's blog - Balasz my Hungarian friend)

Last time i did anything in the style of a Caveman I'd necked 12 cans of Stella ;)

There's lot to be learnt from this video so watch closely and take notes!



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P90X Core Synergistics

Some time ago I was given the P90X system by a dear Strength and Fitness accomplice of mine.

So about 2 years later (after getting it) and feeling the effects of my strongman comp I decided to take a 'light' option for my evening training session.

Enter p90x, I scanned through the options and decided on the core synergistics section.

After a pretty thorough warm up I was feeling good with lots of movements that had passed my mind many years ago. I won't go into the details here but my memory took me back to school (in a good way) and circuit training exercises.

The results were pretty good for me in that I now feel like I've released my tight hips and my lower back through this workout.

No suprises really I'm under no illusions that I need more general training.

I intend do more p90x soon in addition to my kettlebell training and barbell sessions.

p90x versus kettlebells
IMO the two types of training canno be compared, p90x is a workout video and kettlebell training is a lifestyle and constant challenge.

Kettlebells will live forever and p90x wil die out atsome point despite being a big cut above all the other workout videos (think celebrity workout videos)

Being me I'll try it all at least once or twice






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Todays session, haven't squatted for months and after getting mashed at last weekends comp i need my body to be upto the job. 110kg on the barbell for 8 reps followed by 20 squat thrusts and 20 kettlebell swings with the 32kg bell. Repeated for 6 sets. My lower back is still a little shot but bearable to train with.

Crazy Fitness - Strength Training Ideas


Just been over at Strongerman.com again. I find Bud Jeffries very intriguing!
Bud is massively strong but not only that, he is extremely fit.

Bud's words are 'If you want radical results you have to put out radical effort. You don’t have to climb the mountain every day, but you do have to climb it if you really want results.

That is so true, radical training means radicals results. Bud has lost over 100lb's recently and looks amazing.

I got quite a few 'Why in the hell would you want to do that' expressions when I started training for my Hammer Challenge for Charity. I did it because it was 'out of the norm' and believe it helped 'raise more money for charity' because it was unusual and not something everyone could do and was a little different to a Sponsored walk.

With this said, I'm looking for a new radical challenge for next year if anyone has any ideas?

So far I have come up with
3 hour sledgehammer striking (World Record is 2768 strikes) with a 14lb hammer
1 hour 24kg kettlebell snatching

Bud's 1000 sprawls is another example of radical (a sprawl being the same as a burpee or squat thrust)

This is inspiring stuff!

Legitimate Tearing - Catalogue

Ok, I should have been working but somebody slapped one of last years stock book on my desk. This is the first time I've tried catalogue tearing, this one was 35mm thick and much more difficult than a Yellow Pages Phonebook

If you want to get into grip and rip i would highly recommend these places

Adam T Glass
Chris Rider
Denis Rogers

Whether it's help or just plain inspiration you're after. These guys can give you it all!

Strongerman - Bud Jeffries

Bud Jeffries is back up and running now with his awesome training methods and articles.

GO there now!

500lb Sit ups for 15 reps



Check out my previous post about Bud Jeffries and Kettlebells

Strongman Competition Container Comp 7.11.09

Did my first Strongman competition last saturday at Jason Talbot's container in Harby Leicestershire. I travelled down with Pat 'Homemade' Hodgson fairly early and managed to get a great sausage and bacon butty at Harby petrol station cafe before the comp!!

The competetion started at 11am after a briefing about the rules of the comp from JT.

First event was the Overhead (in medley format), first implement was a 62kg very thick handled dumbbell, which went up pretty easily. Then onto the 110kg Yoke, mission accomplished without too many worries. Third lift was 110kg thick log bar, I struggled with this due to handle placing as it was such a big diameter log, I ended up trying twice to press out so moved onto the next lift which was the 120kg axle, I continentalled it onto the belt and then straight up to the chest and overhead. Final lift was a double attempt at a 69kg Inch dumbbell which I failed just to lock out on with a few seconds spare.

With my pre-nerves out of the window, I set upon the second task - deadlift. Started with a 220kg (50mm)axle, then 250kg trap bar and 155kg each hand farmers walk bar deadlift final lift was a failure at 275kg olympic bar deadlift - I managed to get the weight off the floor by about 4 inches but thought better of really fighting it to save myself for the rest of the competition.

Third task was the medley which was 140kg each hand farmers walk 15m, 300kg tyre flip for 2 reps and 175kg duck walk for 15m. Once again I scraped through the whole lot in 88.9 secs and a bruised foot from glancing my foot with the farmers walk bar. This really got me blowing big time!

Final event was the atlas stones 120kg,135kg,160kg and 180kg. I got the first 2 stones up without too much trouble but ended up with no tacky left on my arms so couldn't even get a grip on the 160kg atlas stones - a little bit dissapointed with this as I think I was capable of getting the third stone up. However, you learn from these things.

Overall, the comp was a great experience with a lot of great guys supporting each other. Hopefully I will make it into the Adlington Push/Pull meeting in January, which will certainly give me something to train for as I was far from trained up for this one (only 3 sessions in the last few months as I've been training for my Hammer Bash event)

I would highly recommend to anyone to do this comp and train with Jason on saturdays at the Container for about £3 a session. Jason also sells atlas stones for a very good price (i bought a 120kg stone to get some practice in) Check out JT's site atlasstones.co.uk


Links To Utube videos of Comp with time in mins/secs where my events start


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDpp7E1xJYs 3min

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvlHhARe7M4 2min

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wzvmcPlPMw 40 sec

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG9VxTplkbI 6min 40

Container Comp

From yesterday's Strongman competition at Jason Talbot's container in Harby.

Was a great day! More to follow

Melton Mowbray Fitness Bell

This is brilliant! A new craze in fitness and fatness training.

Swing that kettlebell and eat pies at the same time.

Outstanding work from my good mate Homemadegymstuff

If you wondering why?

It's because we're heading off for the Strongman comp tomorrow at Melton Mowbray (well near there- a place called Harby) (home of the UK's finest Pork Pie)

Strongman Container Comp 7 Nov Melton Mowbray

This weekends Strongman comp has changed format slightly from Having 3 groups to now 2 so I've been pushed into group b (the hardest group)

My event weights are in bold.

looks like it could be interesting

Original post on Sugden Barbell


overhead
A B
40kg dumbell 62kg
80kg yoke 100kg
85kg log 110kg
95kg axle 120kg
56kg inch 69kg

deadlift

180 axle 215
200 tbar 250
220 oly bar 275
125 farmers 155

medley

115 farmers 1 flip 140 duck walk

145 farmers 3 flips 175 duck walk

stones

100 115 125 135

125 135 160 180

I can see some of it being possible and who knows for the rest.

Will be great fun giving it my best shot

More moblogging . The 32kg bell squaring upto the 80 big daddy! Done 2 strongman sessions this week for my first ever Strongman Comp in Melton Mowbray this weekend run by Englands u105kg strongest man Jason Talbot. Events are in medley format check out http://sugdenbarbell.co.uk for more info

The 60kg and 80kg kettle bells side by side. 80kg bell is on the left. Diameter of the big boy is about 10 inches by 14 inches high. It s a totally different kettle of fish (oops) or should i say beast to the titan 60kg! Im giving it plenty of respect at the mo.