Developing Power & Strength through the use of the Olympic Lifts.
I am hoping that everyone by this point is working hard, nose to the ground, on maximal level strength. Regardless of whether you are a Crossfitter or a lifter. We are in the off-season. Time to entrench ourselves with position work, triples, … [Read more...]
Sasser 345 CJ PRfollowed by Sasser 350 Clean (and FS) PRStrength:nA) Snatch: 75/2*3 sets, rest 90 sec nB) Snatch Deadlifts: 100/3*2 setsnC) FS: Find 1 RM (VIDEO THIS)Skill: 5 RoundsnA1) 30 sec ME Deadhang Pullups, rest 30 secnA2) 30 sec ME Ring … [Read more...]
I wanted to re-post this review of the First Parabellum Camp this year in Denver.The folks from WOD Authority put together a pretty cool and lengthy review of our first camp. I was quoted to be "young and talented." I'm always the little brother. … [Read more...]
Weightlifting:nA) Snatch: 75/2*4 setsnB) Snatch Deadlift: 100/3*3 setsStrength:nA) FS: Find 1 RM (VIDEO THIS)nB) Weighted Pullups: 4 sets of 5 reps AHAP … [Read more...]
I want to give a mid-week shout out to a man I have had the pleasure of training with all summer. He approached me at the beginning of the summer wanting to do some training before heading back to school this fall.Background on Aaron: He is a 6'7" … [Read more...]
To go along with the programming today I wanted to add some motivation heading into this week.Sasser and I have been working on this clean and jerk (jerk especially) over the last 15 weeks. He has recently been stalled and hadn't see much … [Read more...]
Next weekend I will be spending some time at the beach and the plan is to run a series on Coach's Eye Analysis. I want to show how this 4 dollar app has completely changed how I coach and how you can use it as well. The capability for precision … [Read more...]
Rest Up big week next week. Squatting max time! … [Read more...]
I always like to give summaries of big events. It helps me to recap a wild weekend in my head and it helps me to look at what we did really well and what could be done better.Sitting in the Toronto/Chicago airport is no better place to unwind and … [Read more...]
Next week is max week for the squatting but very light loading and intensity for the lifts. Be Prepared. Also got my first PR video today... you'll see that tomorrow.Rest Day! … [Read more...]
With Sweat RX Day 2 in the books I can't help but be surprised by a lot of what I don't know or who I didn't know about. Thus based on day 2 I am going to make a couple observations that surprised me.1. Paul Tremblay is the Canadian version of Chad … [Read more...]
nAs I was browsing Instagram today I ran across one of Hookgrip's photos from the training camp out at Waxman's Gym this past week. The picture shows a pretty highly promoted but often ignored truth in the sport of weightlifting. The necessity for … [Read more...]
The Sweat RX Pro Division was built up and headlined to be no joke. With a $15,000 cash purse on the line and 8 female athletes, with 10 male athletes, they knew that every workout counted. Thus the two workouts completed today were exactly that. … [Read more...]
The daily programming provided on Deep Performance and Barbell is free but should you want something more, we offer remote coaching. Cleaning up technique and performing the movements as flawlessly as possible—especially is a hard task and one that … [Read more...]
Flying to Canada yesterday for the Sweat RX Competition I got the chance to spend some time reading. My Bible plan landed me in Psalm 56 where this verse hit me like a Tyson right hook.Verse 9: "Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call. … [Read more...]