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Shrugs for Building the Traps

I often post answers to questions that come up on other forums dealing with training. And to be honest, I never really gave them a second thought until just recently when I posted the information that follows. I am taking the advice of virgilgarcia on that forum, who suggested I put that information on my [...]

Horizontal Pulls and Natural Bodyweight Training

We are going to address two things in this article.

The first has to do with Step 2:

Horizontal Pulls (HzP’s), as found in Convict Conditioning page 124 – 125,  performed  from a table or some other set-up like rings hanging at about waist height.

The Progressive standard Paul Wade sets is 3 x 30, [...]

Looking for some “POP!” ?

Carbonation.

We use to call my Dad that.

Pops.

But only when we were out of arms reach and he was in a good mood. Or we’d get popped upside the head.

Do you have it? Do you need it?

It is that explosive ability some people just seem to have. Not only can they [...]

It’s In the Movement…

The more we can tune into what we are doing, get the feel of the movement, the more we will get out of our training.

Control of our body-weight  or some outside object comes from manipulating many factors.

I'm not counting rep speed here…

At times a thought of:

“In this movement I need [...]

Speed of Execution

Well, I’m not talking about putting someone to death!

I’m talking about how fast we perform a particular exercise or movement. In this case, we are talking about how fast to perform one repetition, whether it is a single rep or a series of single reps strung together in a multiple rep set.

Does that [...]