Sport training, strength training, bourbon fueled rants, general bad-assery:
Let me know what you think so far.
Good stuff, never knew/thought about the foot positioning vid u posted up. Just looked at some of my old bench vids and noticed I do that with my feet. So I take it your done with the death to fitness blog now.
Very awesome. I can’t wait for future posts. What you mentioned about foot position is so true. I find myself constantly making sure I have good foot positioning so as to create torque even when I’m sitting down.
You are so awesome X’s 19089483294739827482.72
Very good read Mike look forward to future posts.
The Gloves look a lot like the Latex/Knit ones i use myself on cold days.
Awesome.
Thanks for reading! Here’s more stuff:
Is death to fitness done now?
[quote]KJohns200 wrote:
Is death to fitness done now?[/quote]
Not at all. I’m still going to update that when I see ‘fitness’ things that piss me off. I just wanted to get some strength training and sport training stuff out there as well.
The new blog seems very nice, Mike. Good info so far and you explain things well in the videos. I had to watch the squat video several times though because I couldn’t stop trying to figure out what song was playing… (Aura, right?)
Good stuff, STB! Learning a bit already. Thanks!
Great blog man, gonna be following it.
I was going through some of the posts and one of the comments gave me the LULZ
??You cant knock Crossfit even the slightest amount. Obviously you fancy yourself a powerlifer there Beefy and just because you’re strong dose not mean you are fit. You rip on something just because the people involved have different goals then you and you think its bullshit, id like to see you do 100 chins followed by 100 box jumps, which mind you is only about half a workout at a Crossfit comp. Crossfit is to look good naked and be strong from and athletic stand point. Dont know many powerlifters that can run 5 min miles and have 30 inch verticals.??
He’ll be thinking of you during his fran…FOREVER 0_o
[quote]lumbahjack wrote:
Great blog man, gonna be following it.
I was going through some of the posts and one of the comments gave me the LULZ
??You cant knock Crossfit even the slightest amount. Obviously you fancy yourself a powerlifer there Beefy and just because you’re strong dose not mean you are fit. You rip on something just because the people involved have different goals then you and you think its bullshit, id like to see you do 100 chins followed by 100 box jumps, which mind you is only about half a workout at a Crossfit comp. Crossfit is to look good naked and be strong from and athletic stand point. Dont know many powerlifters that can run 5 min miles and have 30 inch verticals.??
He’ll be thinking of you during his fran…FOREVER 0_o[/quote]
Yea. Apparently, the crossfit journal doesn’t talk anything about energy systems and movement economy. I really don’t mind crossfit. Some of the higher level guys are fucking ridiculous… what I don’t like are people who think they know what they are talking about just because they did a “hard workout.” Those same guys talking shit about a 5 minute mile would have to go to the hospital if they tried a Speed Strength workout.
It’s all relative but every athlete, regardless of what the ultimate goal of training is, has to be good at everything. All skills need to be developed. Crossfit goes to the fucking extreme with it, making training so general that it would not be good for anything other than being good at crossfit. Personally, I would rather have many skills developed, then focus on a more centralized goal (like wrecking shit in a powerlifting competition) than just be good at exercising for the sake of competing against other ‘exercisers.’
Anyway, my best mile time is 6:09. And I’ve hit a 38inch vertical jump. So, fuck that guy. haha.
Those dudes get so fucking defensive, damn.
It’s always the ones that never achieved anything that are quick to jump the gun
[quote]GhostOD wrote:
Those dudes get so fucking defensive, damn.[/quote]
Most cult followers are the same way
[quote]StormTheBeach wrote:
[quote]lumbahjack wrote:
Great blog man, gonna be following it.
I was going through some of the posts and one of the comments gave me the LULZ
??You cant knock Crossfit even the slightest amount. Obviously you fancy yourself a powerlifer there Beefy and just because you’re strong dose not mean you are fit. You rip on something just because the people involved have different goals then you and you think its bullshit, id like to see you do 100 chins followed by 100 box jumps, which mind you is only about half a workout at a Crossfit comp. Crossfit is to look good naked and be strong from and athletic stand point. Dont know many powerlifters that can run 5 min miles and have 30 inch verticals.??
He’ll be thinking of you during his fran…FOREVER 0_o[/quote]
Yea. Apparently, the crossfit journal doesn’t talk anything about energy systems and movement economy. I really don’t mind crossfit. Some of the higher level guys are fucking ridiculous… what I don’t like are people who think they know what they are talking about just because they did a “hard workout.” Those same guys talking shit about a 5 minute mile would have to go to the hospital if they tried a Speed Strength workout.
It’s all relative but every athlete, regardless of what the ultimate goal of training is, has to be good at everything. All skills need to be developed. Crossfit goes to the fucking extreme with it, making training so general that it would not be good for anything other than being good at crossfit. Personally, I would rather have many skills developed, then focus on a more centralized goal (like wrecking shit in a powerlifting competition) than just be good at exercising for the sake of competing against other ‘exercisers.’
Anyway, my best mile time is 6:09. And I’ve hit a 38inch vertical jump. So, fuck that guy. haha.[/quote]
If you don’t mind me asking howd you train for that vertical jump and speed. Awesome blog btw im already learning from it
[quote]georgeh707 wrote:
[quote]StormTheBeach wrote:
[quote]lumbahjack wrote:
Great blog man, gonna be following it.
I was going through some of the posts and one of the comments gave me the LULZ
??You cant knock Crossfit even the slightest amount. Obviously you fancy yourself a powerlifer there Beefy and just because you’re strong dose not mean you are fit. You rip on something just because the people involved have different goals then you and you think its bullshit, id like to see you do 100 chins followed by 100 box jumps, which mind you is only about half a workout at a Crossfit comp. Crossfit is to look good naked and be strong from and athletic stand point. Dont know many powerlifters that can run 5 min miles and have 30 inch verticals.??
He’ll be thinking of you during his fran…FOREVER 0_o[/quote]
Yea. Apparently, the crossfit journal doesn’t talk anything about energy systems and movement economy. I really don’t mind crossfit. Some of the higher level guys are fucking ridiculous… what I don’t like are people who think they know what they are talking about just because they did a “hard workout.” Those same guys talking shit about a 5 minute mile would have to go to the hospital if they tried a Speed Strength workout.
It’s all relative but every athlete, regardless of what the ultimate goal of training is, has to be good at everything. All skills need to be developed. Crossfit goes to the fucking extreme with it, making training so general that it would not be good for anything other than being good at crossfit. Personally, I would rather have many skills developed, then focus on a more centralized goal (like wrecking shit in a powerlifting competition) than just be good at exercising for the sake of competing against other ‘exercisers.’
Anyway, my best mile time is 6:09. And I’ve hit a 38inch vertical jump. So, fuck that guy. haha.[/quote]
If you don’t mind me asking howd you train for that vertical jump and speed. Awesome blog btw im already learning from it[/quote]
By doing a shit load of jumping and conditioning along with my Powerlifting training. That’s about it!
STB is right,
conditioning can be added along with powerlifting training. You just don’t need to do as much as most of the Jim Wendler cock jocks suggest. Ya pushing the prowler 3-4 times a week is good for you, but do you think your going to recover from it along with all the intense weight lifting sessions? I know I personally cant…
Hell, look at Harry Selkow’s elitefts log. He has one to two days of conditioning per week. Plus, alot of you guys think that the prowler or sled or hill sprints is the only way to condition. Nothing wrong with getting on a treadmill/stepper/bike and grinding out 30 minutes for some good active recovery of the muscles and working the heart around 130bpm. Hell, if anything it will help…
In the end,
Being an athlete > not recovering from ten thousand uphill prowler sprints with a weight vest while flipping a tire…