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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 [...]

Convict Conditioning and Horizontal Rows

A few thoughts on Convict Conditioning (CC) and horizontal rows:

For those of you who have Paul Wade’s excellent book, there may be a few thoughts here that can help you if you are struggling with the horizontal pulls or rows, plus some other things to think about.

If you don’t have this [...]

Why I Train Alone

“How do you stay motivated?”

“How do you deal with training alone? I just can’t do that.”

“I need people pushing me to train, otherwise, I couldn’t do it.”

“I don’t have that sort of motivation. If I don’t have someone to train with, I just won’t do it.”

I pretty much have heard it [...]

Enter the Cold

Well, it’s that time of year and it happens:

No matter what you do sooner or later it will catch you.

You catch the common cold.

Or maybe I should say, it catches you.

So what to do?

Well, for one thing:

stop your training and exercising.

That can be tough, I know, because sometimes [...]