Archive for August 2023

by: Josh Bryant The adaptations from properly-applied strongman training are a symphony of bigger, faster, and stronger. Limit strength is not just about success on the powerlifting platform; it’s the bedrock for speed, agility, and all things athletic. Olympic lifting is explosive strength, meaning strength executed with speed. Bodybuilding is sculpting your physique like Michelangelo with swole intentions.…

by: Josh Bryant Josh using a form of de-inhibition training with Johnnie Jackson. You don’t go parading around in your birthday suit to fetch the mail, unless you’re eager for a free stay in the county’s crowbar hotel. Now, picture this: that one night at the world-famous Kentucky Bar in Juarez Mexico, after a whirlwind…

by: Josh Bryant It’s 2017, and I find myself at the Tactical Strength and Conditioning Conference in Denver, Colorado. You’d think this gathering of self-proclaimed fitness aficionados would showcase the gold standard of “practice what you preach.” But oh no, the standard conditioning protocol of attendees consisted of eating fast at the International House of…

by: Josh Bryant As a teenager training at the Santa Barbara YMCA, I still remember the tension between this huge black dude we nicknamed “Zeus” and this yolked up cat we called “The White Power Guy” because of his white power tattoos. My friends and I debated for hours who would reign victorious if these…