Moving the Force-Time Curve to the Left

By  Charles Staley
Twenty years ago, strength training was considered taboo for martial artists.
Today, it is gaining in popularity, despite the fact that it is rarely carried out in a rational manner. Due to strong influences from the world of bodybuilding, most martial artists are only getting half the potential benefit that strength training has to [...]

Releasing the Brakes-The Science of Total Training

 

An excerpt from Alwyn Cosgroves article: Releasing the Brakes
Imagine that a guy walks into my gym, and he’s looking to add 10 pounds of muscle — a simple and straightforward request. The first thing we do is go through a short checklist:
1. Is he lifting?
2. Is he eating enough, and eating enough protein?
3. Is he [...]

The Cure for Stubborn Shoulders…The Two Phase Barbell Shoulder Press

By Nick Nilsson – Staley Training Systems
If you’ve ever had a hard time developing your shoulders, this exercise is going to be a lifesaver for you! Personally, shoulders are one of my WORST bodyparts. It’s tough to keep them strong…tough to get them bigger…and tough to really feel them working when I’m actually doing shoulder [...]

Strength Development Fundamentals for Golfers

By Charles Staley
There’s a very eloquent formula for determining success in any sporting endeavor:
Productivity = Potential — Losses Due to Faulty Process
As an athlete, there’s nothing you can do about your genetic inheritance, but there’s always room for improvement when it comes to your training methods. Particularly, it’s important to identify and correct the most [...]

A Great 1 1/2 Minute Whole Body, Multi Directional Exercise

This is a great little exercise routine (inspired by Gary Gray)that involves multiple planes of motion, multi level lifts and doesnt take a lot of time.  So, if someone tells me they dont have time to exercise, I say Bull@#$&!  I have an answer!  The Matrix.  It only takes about a minute and a half! [...]

Skyrocket Your Muscle Growth and Fat Loss with Squats

Heavy squats are numero uno for helping your entire body gain muscle at warp speed as well as a great way to skyrocket your fat loss around the clock and speed up your metabolism.
Heavy leg work causes a surge in the release of your growth hormones like no other exercise can. The heavy weights sitting [...]

Hacking Your Strength Training

By Alwyn Cosgrove
When I started out in the fitness-training field, the average client tended to be an active person who used gym exercise to augment the other types of activity he got outside the gym. Few of us specialized in fat-loss training, simply because it wasn’t the primary goal of the majority of our clients. [...]

Great Core Kettlebell Exercise

From Jeff Martones H2H: Kettlebell Drills from www.tacticalathlete.com
The “Hot Potato” is a fun H2H drill that can be easily combined with other H2H drills for interesting combinations.  Due to the fact when black kettlebells sit in the hot sun – they get HOT – you’ll find it natural to want to toss the bell like [...]

5 Exercises You Shouldn’t Be Doing!

By Sean Barker
Author of The Dad Fitness System

Old habits are hard to break. But if you keep doing these 5 old school exercises you will be breaking more than old habits.

1. Leg Extensions
Unfortunately this exercise seems to be the extent of most guys leg training. Probably because sitting down and pumping out reps of quad [...]

Exercise Circuit Involving “Hanging” Around

 PS.  If you are as happy as her while doing this……You’re not working hard enough! Ha Ha
Matrix:  1 arm dumbbell (DB) snatch   15x
                1 arm DB shoulder carry squats   15x
                1 arm DB swing   15x
Isometric Chin/Pull up Hold    20-30 [...]