Monthly Archives: August 2008

Workout: Heavy Cleans. Work up to a handful of singles in the 85-90% 1RM range. Deadlifts from pins (hand-and-thigh lift style, only a few inches of movement)/snatch grip high pulls. 125% 1rm for deadlifts, at least, and hold that sucker … Continue reading →

Monday’s workout: Max Effort Front Squats Lunge Buelers/Farmers Walk. 8 per side/120 feet. 3-4 sets. KB swings. 90 seconds. How many can ya do? Today: Max Effort Bench Press Ring Fly Outs (see video below). 3 sets of 5-6. Johann … Continue reading →

Workout: Max Effort Deadlifts Squat Rows. 2 sets of 15. New Challenge: Wittgenstein. You’ll need: a heavily loaded bar on pins and a pair of lightish DB’s. Here’s how it goes: Heavy deadlift from high pins (hand-and-thigh style, only a … Continue reading →

Monday’s workout: Max Squats. Brick Don’t Hit Back KB Swings. Heavy, 1 Minute. How many? Wednesday’s workout: Max Bench Powerslave Modify the dips accordingly, but time this sucker. One Step at a Time Our whole recent dialog (see last two … Continue reading →

I’m still processing the forum I mentioned from the last post. Since my small collection of readers have all added brilliant comments, I am forced to have to use my brain a bit further. So I’d like to briefly mention … Continue reading →

Again, I apologize for not posting workout ideas this week, but it has been one of my weirder weeks. Let’s work backwards in chronology to see what happened. Last, I’m sitting in a hotel room writing this mere minutes away … Continue reading →

Sorry, little time leaves me sans a workout for you guys today, but since we’ve only had a couple takers on the Istanbul was Once Constantinople combo from last Friday (nice job AJ and Jason), let’s leave that as a … Continue reading →

Workout: Max Effort Bench Press with Bands Combo Catch of the Day: Istanbul was Once Constantinople Here’s the times for last week’s challenge “Ray Hearts Steve”: And here’s my attempt: ___________________________________________ That’s Chewy in the funnel hat at the beginning … Continue reading →

Workout possibilities: Max Cleans. Joining me in my quest for Olympic Gold (or at least a decent placing in the Tommy Kono Open this weekend). Clean. Heavy, Combo Catch of the Day: Carrie I’d suggest 95lb hand snatch, 125lb clean … Continue reading →