What up kids!?

You know strength is built in many different ways.

We feel at the Forged Athlete Gym here in Omaha NE that “real” strength is built upon so much more than just plain old hard work and dedication.

Now, the type of strength I’m talking about is that “real world, toughened, warrior mentality” type.  When you got this attitude and mindset combined with highly built physical body strength, you’re an unstoppable force.

There’s people out there I know that can lift a house, but they are mentally WEAK.

I believe it’s due to their training environment.  Soft, intimidation free, commercial like gyms.  They do nothing to train you mentally.

These gym’s have all the nice shiny equipment, nice clean floors, country club like locker rooms and bathrooms, complete with towel service.  You name it they got it!

I feel being in an environment such as that will take way from your growth – both mentality and physically.

You need to put yourself in an atmosphere that will force you to “get comfortable with being uncomfortable“.

Some times, hard work and dedication just aren’t enough to build that “real world toughness” strength.

Along with hard work and dedication, you’ll need shear grit and hard nosed effort.

That’s where “real” strength and toughness is made.

Getting out of your comfort zone.

Pushing the envelope.

Going against the grain.

BREAKING THE RULES!

Some of the ways we really help ourselves and our members get this “real world:, toughened, strength is through doing it “homemade”.

We make our own rules at The Forged Athlete so along with that, we make our own strength tools as well!

We’ve made:

Our own prowler,  fat barbell, fat dumbells, sleds, squat rack, plyo boxes, pull up bars, dip bars, sandbags, and coming soon, our own atlas stones.

All of these tools will get you strong as heck!  They’ll help build athleticism and improve your physique.

Most of all, I feel that using these “homemade” strength tools, will get you tough!

I love working with these tools!

One of my favorites besides the prowler, my favorite homemade strength tools is our new fat bar dumbells.

These babies are sick!  You can load them up with up to 120lbs!  Besides making them heavy as heck, the thick handles made it extremely hard to graspe, which will help improve your grip strength a ton!

I’ve got to thank my boy, The Beast, Matty W, from out of Va. Beach for thinking up this idea.

He’s the strongest mo’ fo’ I know!  He gets it done!

I did a quick workout with them the other day.

I hit some heavy 1 arm clean and press followed by some heavy 1 arm rows.

Then I hit some prowler for about 15 mins non stop.  Great workout that tested me big time!

I love it!

Check out the video:

Start making your own strength tools!  Use your imagination!  You’ll be surprised by the results you get!

Until next time,

Get Forged Strong!

Travis