“I Can’t Gain Weight”: A Strongman’s Tips For Skinny CrossFitters

 CrossFit, Food, Mass Gain, Outside The Gym, Paleo Diet  No Responses »
May 232013
 

Fact: I’m the skinniest guy you know.

Fact: Being the lightest guy in the gym is not good news in CrossFit.

Sure, I’ll smoke everyone if we ever do a 100 handstand pushups for time, but at 125lbs and five foot seven inches, the standard men’s kettlebell (53lbs) is over 40% of my body weight. That thing gets heavy fast.

So obviously, when I spotted strongman coach and competitor Brandon Morrison’s Lift Big Eat Big: How To Get Big While Doing Crossfit article I pounced on it.

There are three key points to their article: Continue reading »

Lowrider: Why Your Squat Technique Isn’t Helping Your Olympic Lifts

 Clean And Jerk, CrossFit, Lifting, Olympic Lifting, Snatch, Strength  No Responses »
May 172013
 

Listen. There’s something you need to think about before you step up to the squat rack (and no it’s not whether or not you’re going to do curls). Are you about to squat because you want to increase your max back squat? Or are you squatting because you want to be a better olympic lifter. For most CrossFitters it always ends up coming back to the olympic lifts. If this is you then there are two things you need to do every time you squat heavy (as opposed to squatting as part of a metcon): Continue reading »

Jim Wendler On The Home Gym

 Lifting, Strength, Wendler 5/3/1  No Responses »
Apr 232013
 

Every article by Jim Wendler contains multiple nuggets, frequently as tangents on his main theme. The recent T-Nation post on combining his 5/3/1 template with rest pause training is no exception. It included this paragraph on the garage gym:

Having your own strength facility that isn’t bombarded with egomaniacs, manic-depressive owner/managers, poor music selections, and pointless equipment is like winning the lottery. I could go on and on but the fact is, a home gym = freedom.
-Jim Wendler

Even though my garage gym use is relatively low compared to how often I go to my local affiliate I still find it invaluable, especially for strength work.

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