Archive for January 2025

By Josh Bryant and Joe Giandonato Building Triceps with the Texas Press 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 spent…

Planning and Programming with Josh Let’s be real—any discussion about squeezing the best results out of a training program without first addressing adherence is just an intellectual circle jerk. And if it’s an internal debate, it quickly devolves into mental masturbation—pointless, unproductive, and only exciting yourself. At the end of the day, if a plan…

by: Josh Bryant Ultimate Orange: The Original Preworkout, with a little more than just caffeine. Back in 2001, I was rolling through Ozona, Texas, on one of those road trips where the gas stations are the only landmarks. I pulled into a truck stop for a bite to eat—one of those places where the menu…

by: Josh Bryant During my teenage years in Santa Barbara, I manned the front desk at Santa Barbara Gym & Fitness—a hardcore haven for iron addicts. That’s where I met a man we’ll call “Irving”—a former CIA case worker that lived in his van turned gym philosopher with a chip on his shoulder! His stories…

by: Josh Bryant Josh- Deficit Deadlift at LA Fitness Can’t fit a yoke into the local chrome palace circle jerk masquerading as a gym? In the words of Pancho Villa: “I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight.” Sometimes you gotta fight for your right…