In this final part of the series on ‘how to pull a monstrous amount of weight off the floor while giving gravity the middle finger’, we will explore the following:Some alternate exercises that you’ve probably never tried, but will have a nice carry-over to your deadlifts. Variations of the deadlift which will help you increase your max, make you more beautiful or just generally more b... more.

In the first part of this series, we went over frequency and all the little ways you could manipulate the shit out of it to your advantage. But not in the same way you would manipulate the opposite sex, of course. In this next instalment, I’m going to take you through the most effective technique (in my opinion). Oh and the carry-over exercises along with deadlift variations will come in during ... more.

Machines have a well deserved, shitty reputation from many top strength coaches and personal trainers who generally know what it is they are doing. Personally, I haven’t bothered to touch 80% of the mechanical equipment in my gym. When friends ask me to show them how X, Y, Z machine works, my general response is “Pfft, I don’t f*cking know”Apparently, because I train people I’m suppo... more.

Whether you want to admit it or not, achieving goals is an art. It takes practice, repetition and constant effort to get good at aiming for a target, then hitting it with ridiculous precision. Those that are good at achieving goals probably have their own system which they’ve developed over the years of achieving success, learning from failures, and not being losers. No one is born knowing how t... more.

The fitness industry gives me a conflicting feeling; on one hand, I’m constantly amazed at how much knowledge we’ve accumulated as a species over the years when it comes to strength, weight loss, hypertrophy etc. But then at other times I see how much we have left to learn and all I can think is… “damn, we’ve barely scratched the surface yo!”It’s exciting and depressing at the sa... more.

One of my pet peeves about the fitness industry is the general expectations that people have when it comes to seeing results. It’s annoying because opinions are always polarizing and hardly ever sensible. We have morons that think they will lose a hundred pounds in a month and then we have underachievers who give people slow and un-motivating expectations by saying that results will take decades... more.