Dynamic Effort Lower Body Training Video

ShareTweet I have heard many trainers say that Dynamic movements MUST be plyometrics.  I have to disagree with this one, and here’s why. Dynamic Effort simply put means that you are moving weight or just your body weight quickly.  This COULD mean a plyometric style movement, ie box jumping, but there are many more choices. [...]

Strength Camp Training – Elliott Hulse

ShareTweet Elliott Hulse is bringing a great deal of information in his guest video for us.  Many people are visual learners and Elliott puts out some informative and high quality videos.  Check out Elliott’s guest post below and his site over at HulseStrength.com. Strength Camp Sample Workout Elliott leads by example and just earned his [...]

Saturday’s Training Session

ShareTweet On Sunday I went down and visited Smitty from The Diesel Crew for a workout at his local gym.  We had a quality session in a great training environment (minus the gym music!)  There were multiple trainers there helping each other out and performing numerous crisp lifts.  Here is the lifts we performed: Heavy [...]

Lower Body Sample Workout

ShareTweet Lower body workouts have always been a favorite of mine. Here is one that really got the legs into their jello mode yesterday. Give it a try and let me know what you think! 1. Chain Squats – Simple and effective – if you don’t have any chains, just squat! 4 sets of 3, [...]

Wave Loading and Sample Upper Body Workout

ShareTweet I tried a different style of loading weights that I read about on a colleague’s (Jim Smith) site. The idea is to load weight in waves, sets of 3 reps, 2 reps, 1 rep, back to 3, then 2, then 1. Jim states “It’s a neurological trick called post synaptic facilitation. Sounds bogus, but [...]