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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.…

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…

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…

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!…

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. Now, Jimmy wasn’t your typical high-end gym guy. He ran a kick-n-stab Latino bar…

by: Josh Bryant Big Jim Williams Q: So, here’s the deal. I’ve been hearing Haters claiming that training powerlifting with single reps is a bad idea. What’s the truth behind this? Well, let me tell you a story. Back in the day, there was this gruff bouncer from a West By God Virginia kick-n-stab bar.…