Subject: How to warm up for your kettlebell snatches

How to warm up for your kettlebell snatches

March 31st, 2022 at 10:00 am MST

A competent warm-up will add many reps to your TSC kettlebell snatch attempt—while making you suffer less. Unlike strength, both power and endurance greatly benefit from an extensive warm-up. Your circulatory system and your aerobic metabolism are ...

Kettlebells for cycling

March 29th, 2022 at 10:00 am MST

[ARTICLE] A Simple Journey: Bicycles, Bones, and Kettlebells “Cycling is known to result in significant imbalances that may lead to pain or compromised long term health. The corrective benefits of the get-up and swing are well suited to counter ex ...

How to warm up for your deadlift PR

March 24th, 2022 at 10:00 am MST

“The importance of warming up varies from sport to sport. It is especially effective for brief power exercises,” declared prominent Soviet sport scientist Prof. Kotz. “…A warm-up does not have a statistically significant positive effect on mu ...

“Courage and calm capability”

March 22nd, 2022 at 10:00 am MST

In one of his short stories Hemingway described a character whose “virtues were courage and calm capability.” We cannot help you develop courage, but StrongFirst does have training methods for “calm capability.” Enter SECOND WIND express onli ...

Introducing a new way to learn StrongFirst skills

March 17th, 2022 at 10:00 am MST

Ladies and gentlemen, Whether you are a total newbie to the strength game or have been around but learned bad habits from “gym bros,” your School of Strength will get you dialed in. Introducing StrongFirst Workshops. The most experienced instruct ...

How “Built Strong” helped me achieve “Sinister”

March 15th, 2022 at 10:00 am MST

[ARTICLE+PROGRAM]How Built Strong Helped Me Achieve Sinister “Building muscle is one of my favorite parts of the training game, so I opted to do a hybrid approach to achieve the “Sinister” goal of Kettlebell Simple Sinister. I treated it like ...

A state-of-the art technique for building muscle as strong as it looks

March 11th, 2022 at 12:00 pm MST

If you have ever watched an old school power bodybuilder closely, at some point you might have witnessed a technique called . While this technique is indeed effective for inducing muscle hypertrophy, it has several downsides... How ...

A state-of-the art technique for building muscle as strong as it looks

March 10th, 2022 at 7:22 am MST

If you have ever watched an old school power bodybuilder closely, at some point you might have witnessed a technique called . While this technique is indeed effective for inducing muscle hypertrophy, it has several downsides... How ...

An unexpected way to boost your pullup reps

March 8th, 2022 at 10:00 am MST

In a previous issue of this newsletter we discussed the importance of building great strength on the very bottom of a pullup in order to improve one’s pullup reps. A reserve of starting strength will allow you to take off fast and finish your rep u ...

Certified Instructors Only: Join our FREE 2-hour Program Design Part II—Exercise selection and building the program webinar with Brett Jones—March 12,

March 3rd, 2022 at 11:00 am MST

Greetings, StrongFirst Certified Instructor,We are excited to offer an exclusive free webinar to you, one of our StrongFirst Certified Instructors.Join Brett Jones, StrongFirst Director of Education, as he discusses the second part of the programmin ...