Tire Flip Revisited

ShareTweet I was talking with a friend of mine today, a former quarterback and safety from Cornell University, and he brought up a classic moment from last year’s football camp. I brought the tire for the older age group to try, and Shane just had wrist and hand surgery two days before.  However, he is [...]

I’m Bringing it Back!

ShareTweet Before I got the Synergy Athletics site going we put out some videos of us just having fun while we are training. Most of our program looked normal, but there was some odd things we attempted. Some worked, some didn’t. I was browsing my youtube as I am preparing another video and came across [...]

Congratulations – 1000 lb Club!

ShareTweet The high school where I coach football has been making a big push with weight lifting this year.  Just this year we instituted the “Pound Clubs.”  The clubs go up to the big 1000 lb club.  Again this is a fledgling program, but the athletes have been motivated and pushing their numbers!  A young [...]

Reader Question – Periodization and “Finishers”

ShareTweet Joe, I was reading your site and noticed that you do/use a lot of different methods along with traditional resistance exercise. I also noticed that you use terminology like “finisher” a lot. I was wondering if you use a form of traditional periodization and incorporate these “unconventional” methods or if you use conjugate periodization [...]

2008 – Wow, That Went Fast!

ShareTweet I’ll be doing a Strength Training countdown list this week of things I learned from 2008, but a highlight and thanks to my friends and supporters!  A few things that have happened for us this past year: Met and trained with some great people including Jim Smith and his crew, Joe Defranco, and a [...]

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