Anyone who thinks steroids, or other performance-enhancing drugs, are not being used by numerous top athletes in about every sport is out of touch with reality. Don’t think just one sport is guilty of this. However, many other top athletes have achieved high levels of excellence without their use. One thing I have seen over theContinue reading “Steroids, genetics, and other cop outs”
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Cave Strong-training of the day (TOD)
general warm up (10 minutes) Americanas x 25/25 reps Adex club halos x 15/15 reps Adex mace grave diggers x 15/15 reps dumbbell front squat/push press x 10 reps specific warm up (5 minutes) dead stop bench press set up and light reps strength (20 minutes) dead stop bench press x 3/3/3/3/3 reps conditioning/accessory workContinue reading “Cave Strong-training of the day (TOD)”
Thursday night at the Cave (slideshow)
Cave Strong-training of the day (TOD)
general warm up (10 minutes) Adex club side cleans x 50 reps Adex club 2 hand mills x 40 reps resistance band pause face pulls x 20 reps recline rope climbs x 5 rear barbarian walking lunges x 100 feet specific warm up (5 minutes) Meadows rows set up and light reps strength (20 minutes)Continue reading “Cave Strong-training of the day (TOD)”
Cave Strong-training of the day (TOD)
general warm up (10 minutes) Adex club inside mills x 20/20 Adex club outside mills x 20/20 reps tuck jumps x 10 reps sandbag shouldering x 10/10 reps resistance sumo high pulls x 20 reps specific warm up (5 minutes) tire flips and lateral keg loading set up and light practice strength (4 rounds) tireContinue reading “Cave Strong-training of the day (TOD)”
Cave Strong-training of the day (TOD)
general warm up (10 minutes) Adex mace barbarian walking lunges x 100 feet sandbag Zercher cleans x 15 reps strict pull ups x 10 reps windshield wipers x 20 reps Adex club mills x 30 reps specific warm up (5 minutes) weight plate stack rows and dumbbell pull overs set up and light reps strength (4 rounds) weightContinue reading “Cave Strong-training of the day (TOD)”
Monday at the Cave — slideshow
If you’re the smartest guy in the room, you’re in the wrong room
Immunity to learning is a self-imposed curse. When you stop learning, you are not going to progress any further. The best athletes and coaches I know all have even better coaches coaching them. This takes humility and a hungry desire to achieve excellence. Being “uncoachable” is very easy to spot in someone — (Note: IContinue reading “If you’re the smartest guy in the room, you’re in the wrong room”
Cave Strong-training of the day (TOD)
Kicking off Monday with a bang! general warm up (10 minutes) resistance band pull a parts x 100 reps push ups x 25 reps jumping jacks x 50 reps bodyweight squats x 25 reps specific warm up (5 minutes) Strongman medley set up and light practice strength (4 rounds) Strongman medley–one round is: log ground-to-overheadContinue reading “Cave Strong-training of the day (TOD)”
“The frenzy of now”– Impatience prevents true progress
You see it every day, people getting all rude and crazy-acting over things they can’t control, the person driving too slow in front of them. No matter how close they tailgate the other driver, he is not going to go any faster. So what’s that got to do with training? Only everything! Somethings cannot beContinue reading ““The frenzy of now”– Impatience prevents true progress”
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