strength training

Max Shank Interview Part 2 – Strength Training, Showing Off, Lunges For People With Only One Leg, and Knowing Who To Listen To

Read Part one of the Max Shank interview. Josh: Max, you mentioned doing feats of strength for “shock value.” How do you know if you are inspiring your clients, or intimidating them? Do you even think about it? I know some guitar teachers who basically only take students so they have someone to play complicated [...]

March 3, 2011 READ MORE →

Book Review: The Naked Warrior

Pavel Tsatsouline’s book The Naked Warrior was the beginning of a long, strange strength training journey for yours truly. I was working at the library when this book showed up on the desk. As often happens, I got intrigued by the cover and the premise: get really strong using just your bodyweight. It also seemed [...]

January 20, 2011 READ MORE →

Heavy Suitcase Deadlift With 275 In Each Hand

The suitcase deadlift is just what it sounds like. You pick an object or two off the ground, while holding them at your sides like a suitcase. The deadlift pattern is simply lifting something off the ground. This is another instance of same but different, and it is a lift I do a lot now [...]

January 4, 2011 READ MORE →

Interview with Max Shank: Weight Training, Fighting, and Highland Games

This is a an interview with my friend, strength training madman Max Shank from Strong as Hell. Besides having a very cool name, Max is also one of the strongest people I know. He is constantly raising the bar for himself (and for the rest of us). He is also a martial artist. I’ve watched [...]

December 8, 2010 READ MORE →

Interview with Chris Beardsley from Garage Gym Online

Hey everyone, Chris Beardsley, my UK buddy from Garage Gym Online was kind enough to let me hassle him with some questions. I have nothing but admiration for the lad, and I hope you’ll enjoy the interview. Josh: It is difficult to deal with your level of awesomeness? I imagine you’re constantly fighting the descent [...]

December 2, 2010 READ MORE →

The 100 Push up Challenge

I‘ve set a new goal for myself: 100 consecutive push ups. The 100 push up challenge is something I’ve heard about a lot, but have never committed to it. Now that I’m in the middle of my project to lift one million pounds in one month, I’m performing more movements than ever. This gives me [...]

November 6, 2010 READ MORE →

How To Lift A Million Pounds

Hear ye, Hear ye! I’m going to lift one million pounds in November. At least, that’s the goal. For anyone who has followed my weight training or my experience with Gym Movement, you know that I’m as interested in pursuing total volume during a workout as I am in putting more weight on the bar. [...]

November 1, 2010 READ MORE →

How To Get Stronger

I have spent the most recent ten years of my life trying to get as strong as possible. Every single day I am trying to get stronger. Why I do it is not that interesting to most people–at least, not unless those people are trying to do what I do: become as strong as humanly [...]

August 15, 2010 READ MORE →

(My) Strength Training 101

Dear reader, the following post is really long. It is about the history of my own experience with physical strength and fitness. Then I talk about some of the things I associate with strength training and progress. I wrote this post primarily to have something to refer people to when they say “tell me about [...]

July 10, 2010 READ MORE →

Grip And Rip 2.1 – Now Available

Author’s update: I wrote this back in what feels like a long time ago, right after I got back from the workshop where the dvd was filmed. If you’d like a more comprehensive review of the product and a discussion of my own progress in the months since, here is my Grip and Rip update. [...]

April 5, 2010 READ MORE →