Those CRAZY Complexes!

My friend Alwyn Cosgrove has a great article on Complexes for Fat loss up on the t-nation site....great stuff! We cover some complexes in our Combination Lifts DVD but we are now working on a new DVD that will cover complexes exclusively. Keep your eye out for that along with another DVD we are working on that will go over our favorite KILLER Tabata Protocol exercises.

So you think YOU'RE fit?!?

The amazing Annie of Crossfit fame....pure BEAST. I believe that that is her newborn in the background of one of the camera angles. Unbelievable...

Ahhhh...the safety of a Smith Machine!

NOT. Saw this on Charles Staley's site about a week ago. Looks like the poor guy is also standing on some sort of angled platform???

Do you need the best equipment & facilities to get results? NAH!

I was thinking about this the other day. Some of the best strength and conditioning is going on at places you've never heard of. Universities, high schools, and gyms (and even a lowly JUCO) that are not "big time". A couple of years ago I visited the Hungarian weightlifting training hall and got a chance to sit down with their head coach Imre Szuga to pick his brain. Looking around the room I thought to myself, 'wow, I have better equipment than this!'. It was then that I truly understood that the programming, effort, and teaching trumps everything else. Who cares if you have the latest Powerlift squat racks and glute hams? So what if my platforms are made out of plywood from Home Depot rather than from custon stressed hickory wood. My success here is not based on having the best equipment or being at the "big time" school....it's based on the fact that we teach and train harder than anybody else.

Here are a couple of pics of the Hungarian Training Hall......FAR from fancy but with world class results. The Girl with me in the 3rd pic is Gyongi Lickerez.....at the age of 15 Gyongi set a Jr. world record with a 100kg (220lb.) snatch and a 122.5kg (270lb.) clean and Jerk in the 148lb. weight class (for reference sake the American records are only a couple of pounds more than this....she did these lifts @ the age of 15!).

Wont' find this glute-ham in any fancy equipment catalogs!

Moral of the story? Just DO WORK already! Great thing happen to those who work HARD.

Understanding Bloggers....

As I mentioned in my very first blog post, I'm still trying to figure out the whole idea of 'blogging'. From my point of view, I see it as a way to talk about things related to my field, things that are being talked about and discussed on my web site, products that I think are great etc....basically things I know something about. What I don't understand is why people would blog about shit that they and their 3 friends who visit their blog talk about. Isn't that what email is for? Who really wants to hear what you're thinking about when you walk down the isle at the supermarket? I mean do outsiders really want to know how dysfunctional your marraige is or that you are 53 and have no family and friends and that you actively maintain 4 different blogs at one time? Giddy-yap geniuses. The entertaining part of this particular blog is that I can get berated and called obscenties by a guy who would cross the street if I was walkng down the same sidewalk as him. I think we call that being an 'internet badass' right? Anyway, keep lurking my forum guys.....you might learn something.

Have I really become such a huge part of these individual's lives that they would actually create a blog devoted to calling me an asshole? I guess I am.....and in a way I guess I'm flattered (well, and creeped out at the same time). Why do I feel like my picture is on this guy's refrigerator right now?? Can you say Buffalo Bill?? Ugh.....

Enough on this topic.....let's get back to fitness tomorrow!

BJ Penn is BAAAAAAACK!

For those of us who caught the BJ Penn vs. Jens Pulver fight on Saturday night, we finally got to see BJ Penn back in SHAPE! I'm SO glad that BJ decided to hire a strength & conditioning coach to work his ass so that we would have a chance to see the 'prodigy' back to old form. Had BJ been in shape when he fought St. Pierre and Hughes, I think he would have EASILY won both fights. I hope BJ decides to stay in the 155's for a while to win the title and clean house a bit. I don't think anyone (including Sean Sherk) can beat him when he's in shape....anybody. BJ is the perfect example of an unbelievable fighter who was missing something very simple......strength and conditioning. Add that into the mix and watch out world.

Early in his career, BJ was considered one of it not THE greatest MMA fighter in the world (pound for pound). There is no indication that can't get back to the top of the mountain again. Keep training brah!

www.coachdos.com for all your strength conditioning needs!

Olympic lifting at the HIGHEST level

There is no doubt that the Chinese have taken Olynpic weightlifting to the NEXT level. The women, in particular, have dominated like nothing ever seen before. Here are some great training pics of some of the best athletes on the planet...


How's this for a posterior core exercise?!


Who says you cant get JACKED from the Oly lifts?!


Did I mention that they are all incredibly flexible...




And ATHLETIC????



For a look at an amazing photo album of these athletes go here! WOW.....