Subject: Upstream Strength Strategies

 

If the StrongFirst newsletter earlier this week has you reviewing the strategies and tactics in your program, then today’s article will take you further and introduce bringing upstream thinking to strength programming.

 

Not sure what upstream strategies are…Read the article.

Hector Gutierrez Jr., StrongFirst Certified Senior Instructor and the author of today’s article

From Hector’s article: “Today, strength training with kettlebells has become mainstream, but here’s what no one is talking about: 

 

The invisible aspects of strength training. The ones responsible for providing the results you’re not even aware of. 

This is because upstream decisions are intangible, while downstream decisions are more measurable.

 

If you don’t know what you're looking for, the downstream effects could bite you in the…well, you know where.

 

Since 2011, I’ve been teaching a series of “Upstream Strength Strategies” to private students at our gym, the Hardstyle Fitness Academy.

 

The results have been jaw-dropping.

 

We’ve seen deadlifts increase from as little as 30lb in 8 weeks to 110lb in 12 months.

 

Keep in mind, these are busy moms and dads, just regular Joes and Janes like you and me.

 

I personally took a 475lb ten rep max (10RM) in the deadlift to a 505lb 10RM in four weeks lifting nothing heavier than 415lb.”

 

See all of the Upstream Strength Strategies in this week’s article.

Programming Demystified, the new StrongFirst Seminar with

Pavel Tsatsouline, Fabio Zonin, Hector Gutierrez Jr.