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Stupid Human Tricks: Burdick Loves CrossFit

April 23, 2013 By Jesse Burdick 11 Comments

By Jesse Burdick I don’t do CrossFit. I’m a powerlifter, and a pretty damned good one. For the past seven years, however, I’ve been associated with CrossFit in one form or another. I’ve worked in CrossFit-affiliated gyms, I’ve trained athletes for the CrossFit Games, and I’ve even done a little bit … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Athlete, Athletes, Bench Press, Burpees, Carl Paoli, chest-to-bar pull-ups, clean and jerks, crossfit, Crossfit Athlete, CrossFit Games, CrossFit Gym, CrossFit Open workouts, CrossFit-style workouts, Deadlift, Division I, front squat, jesse burdick, Kipping, Kirian Fitzgibbons, max effort, overhead press, performance, Powerlifter, progress, pull-up, reps, sets, snatches, Squat, thrusters, Toes-to-bar

The Mellow Metcon: Conditioning For Strength Blocks

April 12, 2013 By Scott Paltos 10 Comments

By Scott Paltos Strength is king. Conditioning counts, too, though. For many of you, it counts a little too much. If you’re a good coach, or an athlete who knows what you’re doing, you’re always going to include some level of conditioning—whether it’s aerobic or anaerobic—in your programs. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Training Tagged With: adrenaline spike, aerobic, Anaerobic, Barbell, Barbell Complex: Deadlift, Bench Press, Box Jumps, Burpees, Central Nervous System, circuit training, Clean and Jerk, CNS, CNS Stimulation, Conditioning, crossfit, crossfit workouts, CrossFit-style metcons, entire body workout, gain, gain muscle, hang clean, Heavy Clean, Heavy Med Ball Smashes, High Intensity, High Intensity Interval Training, high volume, HIIT, interval, jerk, jump rope, jumping rope, metcon, metobolic, NFL Combine, one-rep max, plyometric push-ups, Powerlifters, powerlifting, rate of perceived exertion, RPE, running mechanics, Scott Paltos, Sprint, Sprinting, squat jumps, Strength, strength block, Strength Gains, strength program, strength workout, work capacity

The Power of Power

March 29, 2013 By Scott Paltos 13 Comments

By Scott Paltos Want the secret to everything? I know you’re looking for it, at least for your fitness, because that’s why you’re on the fucking internet today in the first place. I’m also sorry to disappoint you, because the answers you’re so desperate to find have nothing to do with any of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Training Tagged With: 5/3/1, Adding Mass, Aesthetics, Athlete, athleticism, Back Squat, Bench Press, Brian Carroll, Build Muscle, building mass, Burn Fat, Central Nervous System, clean, CNS, crossfit, CrossFit Games, Deadlift, front squat, high bar squat, Hypertrophy, isolation exercises, jerk, jesse burdick, lift, mma, muscle building, Muscles, Olympic lifting, one-rep max, performance, powerlifting, reps, Scott Paltos, shoulder press, snatch, Squat, stability, Strength, Strength Training, Strongman

Shockwave: Nothing More, Nothing Less

March 24, 2013 By DH Kiefer 12 Comments

In anticipation of the upcoming release of the next Shockwave Protocols programming system, here’s a newly edited re-release of the original introductory Shockwave article (Shockwave 1.0) from two years ago. We’re a few versions in at this point, with the biggest one to come, but this blast from the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Training Tagged With: 5/3/1, anabolic potentiator, Bench Press, carb back-loading, carb backloading, carb nite, Chris Thibaudeau, Deadlift, fuzzy logic, heavy duty, Heavy Duty Training, poliquin principles, Shockwave Training, Squat, Stretch relax, Stretch Shortening Cycle, The Carb Nite Solution, The Shockwave Protocols, Thib, Thip

The Cute Girl Dream Sheet

March 21, 2013 By Staff 8 Comments

Women want compliments. If you don’t think so, you’re crazy. If we tell you we don’t, we’re lying. If you’ve read my last article here on, however, you know I’m of the opinion that the compliments we want need to be delivered a certain way if they’re going to do you—or us—any good. Regardless, we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Acrobatic Yoga, Acrobatics, Anna Shammas, Bench Press, Bikini Body, bodyweight exercise, Bruce Lee, Central Nervous System, Chin-ups, CNS, complimenting women, Dips, Dumbbells, Elbows, Glutes, Gymnasts, Kettlebells, Neutral-Grip, pistol squat, Pistol Squats, powerlifting, Pull-ups, Push-ups, PVC Pipe, Reverse Grip, Ribcage, Serratus Muscle, Shoulder Health, Shoulder Joints, Squat, Squatting, squeezing your glutes, Suspension Trainer, TRX Straps, weighted dips, weighted vest, Wider-Grip

How To Be Awesome: Dealing With Bad Days

March 20, 2013 By Jesse Burdick 10 Comments

By Jesse Burdick Eric Spoto’s day was shit. Absolute, total, unmitigated shit. At one in the afternoon, he’d managed just two hours of sleep since the night before. All he’d had to eat since three in the morning was a handful of pistachios, a cup of yogurt, and a glass of apple juice. For most … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adrenaline, Animal Cage, Apple Juice, Arnold Classic, Athletes, Autoregulation, Back Squat, Barbell, Bench Press, Bioforce HRV, Changing Conditions, Conditioning Day, CrossFit Open, CrossFit Scoring, Deload Days, Deload Weeks, Ed Coan, Eric Spoto, Feeling Like Shit, Gym, High-Rep Day, How To Be Awesome, Ice Cream, Ideal Conditions, jesse burdick, Lift Weights, Mental, Mental Game, Mental Medicine, Mindset, Omegawave, Perfect Training, Personal Record, Physical Medicine, Pistachios, Pneumonia, Poison Ivy, powerlifting, Sleep, Speed Day, Squat, State of Readiness, Training Regulation, Yogurt

The X-Frame Protocols: An Introduction to Excellence

March 20, 2013 By Monte Spicer 8 Comments

By Monte Spicer Clear your mind. Now, picture the letter X—an X with the caps lock on, and not the lowercase version. Look at the structure of the X. Examine its design. It’s wide on top, narrow in the middle, and wide again at the bottom. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Training Tagged With: Back Muscles, Barbells, Bench, Bench Press, Biceps, bodybuilding, crossfit, CrossFit Training, Curls, Deadlift, Dumbbells, Exercise, Framework, Gym, Justin Fargas, Kelli White, legs, Lower Body, Medals, Mirror, monte spicer, Muscles, NFL, NFL Combine, Pectoral Development, Physique, Pull-ups, Squat, Strength Athlete, Strength without Balance, Symmetry, Upper Body, World Championships, X-Frame, X-Frame Body

Who Wants To Be A Fitness Model?

March 13, 2013 By DH Kiefer 14 Comments

By Ian Spanier Want to be a fitness model? Sounds like a cool and easy way to make a living, doesn’t it? All you have to do is train all day, keep your diet on point, get your spray tan right, and start calling magazine editors and ad agencies, and the photo shoot offers—and then the checks, … [Read more...]

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The Sexy Strong Woman: Part 2

February 4, 2013 By Staff 3 Comments

Women and muscle mass have a strange relationship, and it’s been that way forever. When you’re trying to decide whether you actually want to put on muscle, it’s a very personal decision that a lot of women eventually choose not to make at all because they don’t want to “bulk up.” Still, a lot of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Training Tagged With: Adding Muscle, Bench Press, Conjugate Method, Deadlift, Dynamic Effort Lower Body, Dynamic Effort Training, Dynamic Effort Upper Body, Dynamic Squats, Higher Reps, Leaning Out, Leg Pressing, Lunges, Main Set, Max Effort Lower Body, Max Effort Upper Body, Muscle Mass, Nervous System, powerlifting meet, Rate of Force Development, Recomposition, Recovering, RFD, Sexy Strong Woman, Speed Work, Split Squats, Squat, Strength Gains, Tendo, training, Women

Exercise Technique: Exploiting the Half Rep for Strength and Hypertrophy

November 5, 2012 By DH Kiefer 4 Comments

You know those guys you see in the gym (including plenty of CrossFit folks) doing half reps? This happens all the time on the bench press and with bicep curls, and we've all witnessed it. You know you want to tell them this is a major training mistake, but you're not exactly sure what to say. Well, … [Read more...]

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