Posts by Smitty

• Chasing Demons

  Chasing Demons Life is hard. And you know what?  It doesn’t get any easier. Every day you have to fight and fight and fight.  And then you wake up and do it all over again.  It also seems that you are the only one struggling. ...

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• Chaos Bench – Advanced Upper Body Pressing Strength

  Chaos Bench Advanced Upper Body Pressing Strength In my Chaos Manual (published in 2005), I talked about “bridging the gap between GPP and SPP“.    Applying chaos theory into the weight room allowed me to start incorporating all of the ideas I had been working on...

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• The Power of $20 – A Bronx Tale

  The Power of $20 A Bronx Tale It seems no matter how positive we try to be every day, there are people who try to bring us down. You know who I’m talking about.  Those people who are always negative and complaining.  They try to...

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• Power Combo – Heavy Dips with Thick Bar Rows

  Power Combo – Heavy Dips with Thick Bar Rows In this article we are going to show you a twist on conventional dips and seated rows.  We will introduce chains into the dip movement.  As you remember from our chain training video, we like to...

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• Innovative Glute Activation – Get Stronger and Fix Your Posture

  Innovative Glute Activation Get Stronger and Fix Your Posture In today’s article we are going to discuss a unique glute bridge and hip thrust variation. I’ve been reading a ton of information from Bret Contreras about his research involving hip extension and glute activation.  Especially...

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• The 50 Cent Effect

  Can you believe what you’re seeing? Yes, that is 50 Cent shoveling snow. 50 was recently out shoveling snow in his neighborhood.  I don’t know many of the details except that it was sort of a publicity stunt and sort of having fun.  He was...

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