I really appreciate your visits to my blog. Please let me know what you think of this post in the comments.As it says on the tin, this is a quick description of the viking press. If you want to check out the viking press in the wild, in its natural habit of strongman competitions, you [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Introducing'
Introducing: zercher squats
February 15th, 2010 4 Comments
I tried zercher squats for the first time in my deload week (have you had one recently?) and recorded the event for posterity. The zercher squat: equipment To do them, I used the fat bar that I made a few weeks ago. I read somewhere that a larger diameter bar makes the lift less painful [...]
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Introducing: the floor press
February 10th, 2010 Comments Off
For those of you who are bored enough to read my training journal, you’ll know that I’m fighting a war with the bench press at the moment. It seems to think that 95kg (200lbs) is an acceptable number to get stuck at. I, on the other hand, disagree. I started thinking about ways to improve [...]
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Introducing: the Romanian Deadlift (RDL)
December 30th, 2009 3 Comments
This is just a quick post to introduce the Romanian Deadlift (RDL), an exercise I have introduced into my programme to help strengthen my lower back. It’s also a sneaky introduction for me to the world of embedding video into my blog so please bear with me while I get used to the technical side [...]
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Introducing: assisted one-arm chins
December 21st, 2009 Comments Off
This is just a quick post on how my assisted one-arm chin pulley system is set up. So what is this pulley system? It’s a pulley attached to my chin up bar. The pulley has a short length of cord running through it. The cord has a carabiner at either end. The system looks like this: [...]
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