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Putting New Muscle To The Test

August 18, 2009 by  
Filed under Synergy Pictures

What is the purpose of all the hard training? It is time to put the strength and muscle to the test!

A Huge Strength Training Mistake

(Embarrassing story) When I started lifting, I made a lot of beginner workout mistakes. I used to go to the gym early on in high school and break up my days by body part. Next I would do 3 sets of 8 reps of every exercise I chose and moved on. No wonder why I was weak!

More Muscle In Less Time? Yes Please!

August 10, 2009 by  
Filed under Strength Training

ShareTweet When Jason Ferruggia calls up and offers to send over a quality article for Synergy Athletics Readers, its time to get posting!  Why?  Over the last 15 years Jason has personally trained more than 700 athletes from over 90 different NCAA, NFL, NHL and MLB organizations. He has also worked extensively with firefighters, police officers, [...]

Homemade Indian Clubs

ShareTweet A buddy of mine, Jerry Shreck, strength coach at Bucknell University recently posted a video on how to make homemade Indian Clubs extremely simply! Homemade Indian Clubs Jerry helped me out a looong time ago when I first started Synergy Athletics by sending me some athlete nutrition guidelines he uses up at Bucknell.  A really [...]

Homemade Gym “Rings” or “Handles”

ShareTweet Phil Goetz, a Synergy Athletics reader, generously sent in some photos of homemade gym “rings.”  I can immediately see a ton of uses for these. Last year, I made homemade blast straps.  I bought the nylon webbing off of ebay, made handles and had to have them professionally sown together.  Then I melted them [...]

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