Archive for June 2019

by: Josh Bryant Fred Hatfield, the master of mindset. The most worn-out cliché in sport is that 90 percent of performance is mental. The reality is over 90 percent of coaches and athletes spend 100 percent of their time working on sport fundamentals and physical aspects.    Neglecting the mental aspect can be the difference, in…

Josh Bryant hill sprinting. “Hill sprints bring out something that you can’t really get in the weight room, something that you really can’t get on the track. All the guys that I know that worked out on a hill, they were a cut above the other competition around the league and they had long careers.”…

by: Paul Leonard Pullover! Now who wants to hear that when they are driving? Not me, but that one time when my wife called it out during our honeymoon in Maui so we could hop in a deserted waterfall that was alright with me. In today’s modern strength training athlete’s toolbox it appears the traditional…

by: Paul Leonard A quarter of a century ago, I was living in Southern California, without a decent gym or a serious training crew to seek greater strength gains. My then girlfriend had bought me the Westside Barbell tapes for Christmas 1993. As Louie Simmons has said many times, in the beginning all I had…