Author name: Brian Dick

What Eddie Hall’s Deadlift Record Equals in Everyday Items

This July (2015) in Leed’s England, Eddie Hall broke his own deadlift record of 462 kilograms, by lifting 463 kilos! You can watch the incredible feat here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrLP7AFm8Qs What does this crazy pull mean in different everyday life?? Record Breaking Deadlift: unit 463 kilograms 1,021 pounds 73 stone What this means in everyday items: unit …

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Is Lack of Grip Strength Lowering Your Functional Strength?

If you’ve never worked out your forearms until they’ve ached and felt like over-inflated footballs, you may not be as functionally strong as you think. A weak grip puts you at a disadvantage during lifts such as deadlifts and pull ups and many sporting activities, particularly grappling arts (wrestling, judo, catch, bjj, etc.) It can …

Is Lack of Grip Strength Lowering Your Functional Strength?

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Types of Deadlifts

The deadlift is a tremendous source of functional strength with its compound movement and translation to real world functionality. Performing deadlifts safely and with heavy weights will help you increase both strength and balance. All of this is fairly common sensical, but did you know there are a large number of deadlift variations: 1. Traditional/Conventional …

Types of Deadlifts

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Excel Weight Tracker

Recording your weight goals and tracking your progress, are two major factors in achieving these goals. Tracking promotes a sense of accountability, and helps to illuminate trends in your gains and losses. As such, I am attaching an excel weight tracker that I’ve created in order to help you meet your goals — Excel Weight Tracker     …

Excel Weight Tracker

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Your 1RM – Use it to Build Your Workout

One Rep Maxes (1RM) are critical pieces of information about yourself that can be used to craft future workouts and record your progress. Typical workouts that have 1RM’s  tied to them are bench, deadlift, and squat. These three lifts are also at times called the “big three.” Some powerlifters (or a lot of times braggadocios highschool football …

Your 1RM – Use it to Build Your Workout

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New One Rep Max App

FSL has finally released our mobile one rep max calculator! The app is only available on Android devices, and you can find it here: Functional Strength Lab’s Mobile One Rep Max Calculator. We still offer our web-based max calculators for: Bench One Rep Max Squat One Rep Max Dead Lift One Rep Max (Tip: I’ve actually broken these …

New One Rep Max App

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