Archive for September 2025

Brendan’s 2104 total in action. Too many strength coaches hide behind hundred-dollar words while moving fifty-cent barbells.  That kind of circle jerk might impress academics in the ivory tower, but it won’t build cock-strong, son-of-a-bucks in the real world. Let’s look at something that does work in the real world—and has built one of the…

by- Josh Bryant Folks argue all day about whether walking counts as exercise. If you cracked the top 10 at the Boston Marathon last year, a 20-minute stroll after dinner is basically active recovery—like flossing your teeth, not pulling one. But if you’re 450 pounds, logging 800 steps a day, and rocking a resting heart…

By Josh Bryant and Joe Giandonato Explosive Strength Training with Josh: Lost in Translation While maximal strength sits atop the food chain, being strong as an ox, but slow to show it just means more splinters in your ass from riding the pine. The great ones don’t just hoard strength—they unleash in fractions of a…

Labor Day is about doing the work that builds something that lasts. Right now, strength is in crisis—big numbers that only exist under perfect lighting and a spray of posing oil. They disappear when chaos, fatigue, or real life shows up. Sound familiar? That’s why Tom Haviland and I built Physically Fortified Powerbuilding—a brand new…