Answer to the trivia question

The other day I posted this pic of one of my favorite strength and fitness authors and asked y'all who it was:

The answer:

The Late Great John McCallum whose articles, "The Keys To Progress" where featured in "Strength and Health" magazine. Great writer with great info.

Kicking the deadlifts ass!

Upped the weight to 350 pounds, kept the rest period short and nailed all 100 reps. Started with 8 sets of 10 reps. Then slipped up and only hit 9 reps on the 9th set. Then stepped up and nailed 11 reps on the 10th set. Felt awesome.

A trivia question for you all

Alright, this is one of my all time favorite writers in the fitness and strength world. Can you name him:

I'll post the answer soon.

Pushing hard to glory

So, I jumped up in weight to 350 pounds, made sure to keep the rest at about 90 seconds and nailed my 100 reps in only 8 sets. 7 sets of 13 reps and 1 final set of 9. Here's the last set.

How do you kill the back?

From Tuesday's training. How do you kill the back after doing 4 sets of the lever pull/ pull-up combo on the rings? Go right into 4 sets of 1-arm rows, then finish with a bunch of power cleans. Here's the 4th set of the rows with 141 pounds.

A great one for the back part 2: The Video

Here's the video that I promised about the great back exercise.

Start with a front lever pull (or straight arm lat pull) up to an inverted hang. Make sure to keep it all in your lats. Then lower down with a front lever negative back to the dead hang (again, keeping it all in the lats). Then hit a controlled pull up. Do as many as you can. Awesome for the lats, they'll be burning.

Awesome Squat night

Squats were unreal today. Talk about feeling like a beast.

Had 335 pounds on the bar and was scheduled to hit 10 sets of 10, or 100 reps with it. Using less rest times I managed to hit 2 sets of 10, 5 sets of 13 and finished with 1 set of 16 reps. So, I nailed my hundred reps in only 8 sets. It felt awesome.