Reflections: Authenticity
Failure is a part of training. Failure is a part of training. Not flailing attempts at mediocrity, but legitimate work that pushes a person to the limits of their ability. Every skill based [...]
Training: Horizontal Pulling
PLAY Which planes should you pull in? We neglect horizontal pulling. When new clients are introduced, when possible we start them with some [...]
Training: Zercher Deadlift
PLAY Prayers are all that get these up. So I am back on a hunt for a triple body weight dead lift. At [...]
Bachar Training: Climbing Focused Training
The Carny: I am building a bachar ladder The British Spy: That's old school training. The Carny: Exactly So I built a Bachar ladder this weekend. It is one of the old school [...]
Building Active Shoulder Flexibility
Flexibility is an expression of strength in a full range of movement. I have recently been doing a lot of work looking at rebuilding and strengthening my shoulder girdle. It seems that people [...]
Fixing the Muscle Up: Wrist Strength
A muscle-up is a transition. Somehow a muscle-up went from being the way a gymnast got on top of the rings, to becoming an exercise that everyone in a gym seemingly wants [...]
(p)Rehab: The Issue of Thumbs
I started working with a client a couple of months ago who had (what seems to be more and more common) extremely limiting hand pain. The initial success in dealing with pain that [...]
One Arm Pull-up: Pre-reqs
I wrote an article on one arm pull-ups a few months ago where I mentioned I might write and film some more stuff on perfecting the one arm pull-up. However as the snow [...]
Mixed Training: Pressing out of a lock off
It galls me that #machavok actually beat me to this one; I had experimented last season with a number of exercise variations that would help work on pressing up and above tools, but never [...]
The Elusive One Arm Pull-up
So I was standing around Friday being painted before a show. My phone buzzes. I ignore it. Then it buzzes again, and again. I apologize to the guy doing the painting and grab my [...]