Category Archives: Strength and Conditioning

Brute force and Ignorance

That just about sums up today’s short sharp shock workout.

It’s been a rough week or so with my 1-year-old teething so sleep has been something of a rare commodity of late. However that all seems to be over and he’s back to normal, however getting my own routine back hasn’t been as simple, what with starting a couple of new Personal Training clients, launching this site and running Wild Geese.
The last few weeks I’ve been attempting to train in the Girevoy Sports style, extended sets of kettlebell Jerks, Snatch and Long Cycle. It’s an exhausting process that takes a huge amount of mental strength as well as physical ability.
After a week of no sleep I just wasn’t up to it, so I listened to the body (for a change) and instead did some low rep brute force lifting.
I combined two drills in a contrast fashion to give me a power boost when I return to GS training. Here’s how it looked:

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Why use Kettlebells for Brute Strength and Toughness?

Here’s a guest post from the Under Ground Strength Coach, Zach Evan-Esh.
Zach has built a reputation for producing strong, athletic and enduring athletes using no bull training methods. Here he is talking about Kettlebells, and he describes a few training methods that members of the Wild Geese Kettlebell Fitness group are already familiar with.

Read and enjoy
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I’m here in Louisville, and on the way out here I stopped through Ohio to meet some friends of the iron game, took a trip through Westside Barbell club & recorded 15 minutes of it for Underground members.

Spent a few hours in the Elite FTS Compound with Jim Wendler and AJ Roberts.
We unleashed hell on how to get stronger, bigger, faster, develop mental toughness, how to optimally train athletes, how to train as you get older, avoiding injuries and tons more. 

It was pure gold and I LIVE for that stuff. 

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