On March 6th, local strength athletes, including the 2009 champion, Sean Demarinis gathered to fine-tune their lifts. Here is a sneak preview of the action you can expect on the 27th.
Here are the bios of the athletes slated to compete. If you are up to it, go ahead and handicap them!
I have a fair number of posts involving athletes and training over the age of 40 so it makes good sense to add a new category to MFBB especially seeing how cut up former NFL star, 47 year old Herschel Walker looks in his MMA debut. Since this is a new category for this blog, Mr. Walker keeps the bar pretty high.
A few years ago, Val and I were looking into a technique of running called POSE, which advocates running on the balls of your feet and keeping your knees bent instead of the locked-out knees and heel striking that virtually all but truly elite runners use.
I could only dream of doing a 300 lb clean on a standard Olympic bar, let alone a 2″ axle. Here Sean Demarinis makes look almost within the realm of possibility.
Much has been written about the deadlift and yet there are some lingering myths about it like how bad it is for your back. Doing nothing but sitting poorly is much worse for your back than correctly performing the lift.
That said, anytime you are lifting a weight you need to know what you are doing and do it correctly. Jim “Smitty” Smith of Diesel Crew shows and tells how to deadlift the proper way.
Smitty does a great job a describing how to set up the lift and really set up to successfully pull maximum weights safely. Once you learn this, go out and confidently perform the King of Lifts!
As usual, the Green Bay Packers started well, made a pile of boneheaded penalties, had a sieve for an O-line that allowed defenders to sack our quarterback 6 times and then handed a win to a team that has been 0-11 since last season. What is a frustrated and exasperated fan to do?
I went out to the garage and did a bunch of barbell drop snatches and snatches and then finished with a couple sets of these:
2 sets with a 150# sandbag for about 170 feet. Listen to what was playing in the background.
I have been lamenting my weak unilateral strength which has been exposed with my recent work with dumbbells and then I come across this video of then 65 year old Thomas Inch lifting his famous Inch Dumbbell. Amazing!
