Strength Research – Weekly Update FENUGREEK Over the next few weeks, I’m going to experiment with writing about interesting strength-related studies I’ve found online. I will try to summarize them the best that I can, but please remember that before taking action on any of these findings, it’s important that you do supplementary research yourself and …
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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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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1.) Deadlift – you may hate this one, but the deadlift is one of the best full body exercises out there. The compound movement and the ability to perform a lot of weight in this lift enable you to build a tremendous amount of functional strength. In addition to the strength gains, you’ll also be taking …
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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 …
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I have been interested in taking yoga classes for a long time, but with monthly gym membership fees and jiu jitsu team dues, it was very difficult for me to justify taking on another membership fee. I anticipated it helping my flexibility, an incredibly valuable for grappling (jiu jitsu), and it was an area of my game …
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Below is a short list of strength and fitness hacks to help you not only increase your fitness levels, but also to help build fitness-related habits for this upcoming year. Measure and Record. This could be as simple as maintaining a notebook with your daily weight, or as complicated as a function-filled excel spreadsheet. Regardless, …
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