Reflections: Authenticity
Failure is a part of training. Failure is a part of training. Not flailing attempts at mediocrity, but legitimate work that pushes a person to the limits of their ability. Every skill based [...]
Reflections: What is the point?
I have found myself stuck on a topic for over two weeks now, the end result being that while there have been some videos done and some writing compiled the site has remained untouched. [...]
Training: Horizontal Pulling
PLAY Which planes should you pull in? We neglect horizontal pulling. When new clients are introduced, when possible we start them with some [...]
Training: Zercher Deadlift
PLAY Prayers are all that get these up. So I am back on a hunt for a triple body weight dead lift. At [...]
Training: Hand Strength and Weighted Rope Climbs
Weighted Rope Climbs It seems a little over the top that I always talk about how much stuff hurts, and perhaps it is just that I am soft and weak... but climbing our [...]
Training: Fear
How do you train fear? I wrote this in 2011. It still is something I sit and ponder. How do we best tackle the world of training our heads, perhaps the item that [...]
Building Active Shoulder Flexibility
Flexibility is an expression of strength in a full range of movement. I have recently been doing a lot of work looking at rebuilding and strengthening my shoulder girdle. It seems that people [...]
Bachar Training: Static Strength and Lock Offs
Ladder Training: The Basics Again from the archives. June 26th, 2012. These ladders are rad. So about a week ago [Or two or three] I posted an article on my new [...]
Vertical Jump Training
This post came out of the Irrational Fitness archives, having first been published in May of 2012. It seemed worth saving given the results it got. Vert Training So over a [...]
Fixing the Muscle Up: Wrist Strength
A muscle-up is a transition. Somehow a muscle-up went from being the way a gymnast got on top of the rings, to becoming an exercise that everyone in a gym seemingly wants [...]