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by Josh Bryant Back in the day, I trained clients at a fancy gym. They were tough, with more strength and better physiques than your average gym-goer. Then this plush chrome palace added a boxing fitness component led by Coach Jimmy. Jimmy wasn’t your typical high-end gym guy. He ran a kick-n-stab Latino bar frequented…

Josh using VBT with his son Luke as he learns regular barbell squats HERE. Last week I wrote about when the tool becomes the boss and why that’s one of the fastest ways to become a worse coach. If you missed it, you can read it here: The problem isn’t velocity-based training any more than…

Bench Press Party at Metroflex — Violent Intentions Give a man a tool and sooner or later somebody will do something stupid with it! We’ve done it with fire. We’ve done it with the internet. Now we’ve done it with a linear transducer. Velocity-based training works. That’s not the argument. The problem starts when a…

by- Josh Bryant Timing matters. Ask any deer hunter who climbs into a stand at noon, any fisherman who shows up after the bite is over, or any guy who texts his ex after six beers. Good idea. Bad timing. Happens all the time in life and it happens in the weight room, too. The…

by- Josh Bryant If you’re serious about coaching, training, and getting better at your craft, the ISSA Global Summit is worth your time. I’ll be sharing lessons from a lifetime under the bar and decades coaching everyone from beginners to world champions. As a thank you for your support, ISSA is covering the entire $199…

Coach Warrecker “The hardest hits on the football field always happen in alumni games and the first day in pads,” Coach Barney Eames used to say. “That’s when the players are freshest and most excited to light somebody up.” That stuck with me because it applies to every hard sport and every serious training system.…

by: Josh Bryant Josh Training: Low Volume. Explosive Intent. In NLP they say the map is not the territory. The same thing happens with age. Chronological age is a bad map. It tells you how long someone’s been alive. Says nothing about training history, recovery quality, injury accumulation, sleep, nutrition, stress load, mindset, genetics. Doesn’t…

Seal Row Symposium  You’re at Allsup’s on a random Sunday. Two guys are struggling like hell to load a four-wheeler into the back of a truck. You step in, grab it, and put the damn thing in there yourself. It was never a question. Just another Sunday. As you turn to walk away, your shirt…

by- Josh Bryant Harry Walker exemplifies cold start strength. Most guys are strong under perfect conditions. Perfect warm up, perfect setup, perfect timing. That’s fine if your goal is a big powerlifting total or a sport with perfect conditions. Unfortunately, that doesn’t protect you when life goes sideways. You don’t get bands before you have…

by- Josh Bryant Jeremy Hoornstra is a clinic in precision. Everybody loves romanticizing old school gyms like they were some big happy brotherhood handing out free advice. As they say in Southern Russian, bullski shitski, y’all. You walked in green and stayed invisible until you earned your keep. Show up. Shut up. Move iron. After…