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Popeye-Proud Forearms
by: Josh Bryant I first met Brother Barrett at a quaint little gas station in southwest Arkansas. Lo and behold, there’s a wet t-shirt contest goin’ on in the back and there was Brother Barrett, the life of the party, dishing out corn liquor like it’s water. Brother Barrett was a back-slidin’ Pentecostal preacher, who…
Six Synergistic Strategies for Greater Strength
by: Josh Bryant Let’s take a look at six ways to get stronger, outside of traditional strength training; these methods are backed in the lab and proven in the trenches. Final Thoughts After the mental, physical and spiritual align, 1+1+1=5. The sum is greater than the individual parts; synergy happens, you get stronger! The acquisition of…
NEW Book Release
We believe in heroes and Strength Heroes is your ticket to the storiesof physical culture greats and the legends of the iron game. These arethe ones who didn’t just walk the walk but paved the way. These strength stories are backed by solid research and can serve asyour blueprint for greatness. Follow the examples set…
50 CUBED
Strength is the workhorse that pulls the cart of bio-motor abilities, and it should be prioritized accordingly! Let’s cut the bullshit—there is a time and a place to make speed, agility or conditioning the priority but your pissin’ in the wind if strength is absent. Heavy training improves rate of force development, which impacts movement.…
Why Strongman Training?
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.…
Build The Strength Skill
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…
Altitude Acclimation
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…
Prime Your Day
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…
Sand Bags are the REAL DEAL
by: Josh Bryant Venezuelan tactical legend, Carlo Vecchi, is showing off his sandbag skills. Functional training? Sandbags are just that! This ain’t your pink dumbbell, Pee-wee Herman functional workout, either! Sandbags are the real deal –building the strength you need for the real world. Lifting that sandbag is like tussling with an unpredictable opponent on…
Explosive Strength—Training Economy
by: Josh Bryant “Uncle Fester”, as we affectionately named him, wasn’t a good man, but he was good at being a man! Hailing from Western Arkansas, he was a true hillbilly through and through. Uncle Fester had his “crops” stashed away in the barn, emitting a pungent aroma that could be detected a mile away!…