Agility In Training

Well another really busy week here so we’ll make a quick newsletter similar to the last one we sent to give you some quick hitting tips on life and training and upcoming events.

Hope you’re all doing well and hope that you’re staying strong both mentally, physically and spiritually and that regardless of your situation you know that hard times make great men and give you great opportunities. They never last and if you’re going through one right now know that great blessing will be around the corner.

Here we go…

Tons of interest in our new partials training DVD. The more I think about it the more I think now strange it is that very few mainstream or muscle development type trainers will use partials. Yet a very large percentage of the very great lifters and great coaches of the past and present have found that they truly work and ad strength. Not just regular strength, but competition winning, life changing strength. In fact I saw that this months IronMan has an article by Bill Star about partials. Pavel Tsatsouline’s book, “Beyond Bodybuilding,” has lots of info about partials.

We’ve received many emails regarding how many of you are out there training with partials and seen much discussion lately about how the major crop of current competitive lifters both in powerlifting and strongman regularly use partials in their training. Why? Because it works and they’re not joking around. Remember that we’re only offering this DVD and it’s companion workbook at this introductory price until Monday at midnight. Save $10 and get the strength info that can take you to the next level.

http://strongerman.com/secrets_of_strength/partials.html


TRAINING TIP

Here’s a workout I did last night. This is a sneak preview of a new training series that we’ll have coming up. Thought this might serve as inspiration and a great workout for those of you who are interested in trying it.

Started off with my stand-by bottom position squats, worked up to 920 for 1. Did them alternating sets with stiff-legged deadlifts working up to 510 for 1. Not max, but heavy. One arm rows working up to 215 for 2, been going a little heavier there lately and have some surprises coming with that. Easier than I expected. Then I did a unique medley that’s an experiment for the basis of a new training series.

Bent 8 60-penny nails, four warm ups and four fairly stout ones back to back and switching styles on every bend. Double under, double over, and reverse. Then did a yoke walk 50 feet followed immediately by a 50 foot tire flip, then 25 kettlebell swings, 10 box jumps onto the tire, then 30 reps each arm levering with a 20lb club, 15 to 20 second hold each arm with a thick dumbbell. Then finished with summersaults for 50 feet. Done by step forward-summersault-come back to feet and repeat. More on this soon, but I thought you might find it an interesting mix of old style strongman, competition style strongman, conditioning exercises, grip and agility exercises.


Never forget that life is dominated by your focus and to be good at something takes long-term focus. You don’t get the ability to squat 900lbs without working on it for years. Same as you don’t get the ability to be successful in business or be a mathematical genius, or be a man who truly follows the deepest moral and spiritual guidelines without focusing on it for long periods of time.

This is why you need consistency in your training and in your life. If you don’t consistently eat good food you become unhealthy, your muscles don’t work right and you don’t recover. If you don’t consistently train on some of the same things all of the time, you don’t get good at them, which means you don’t get the real world-class strength meaning you don’t fulfill your own potential. If you don’t consistently put the effort into business, you don’t succeed. If you don’t consistently base your actions and life on deeply held spiritual convictions you don’t build real character. Which means you don’t move to a higher spiritual place. If you don’t consistently use your mind it gets dull. So give yourself a long term challenge in each of these areas.

This is the key to greatness. Staying with it when everyone else quits. By providence of God we still get to have fun and lots of variety in our life and training. Every waking minute doesn’t have to be business or training. Every training session doesn’t have to be the same. What I’m saying is that you have to keep coming back and hitting the same thing over and over again. Should you do lots of side things? Sure. But you must become a master of those things which truly matter. Are you on your own road to mastery in your physical, spiritual and mental life?