Recently we had one of our athletes compete in some throwing events in Iowa. This dude took 1st in the shot as well in Javelin. He ended up taking 3rd overall in the discus.

Overall we were proud of his accomplishmets over the weekend. Andrew is one of our beast’s in the gym. He works his ass off and gets rewarded for doing it. He also had this to say.

Andrew says,

“I haven’t thrown in 3 years so learning to use my body better with you guys helped a TON. I didn’t think I used my hips like I should have in college.

I told you that when we first started. After training with you I applied it to my throws and it obviously worked! There’s NO way you should be able to bounce back like that without having it transfer from some other place,

like your kettlebells, tire flips, etc. I’m going to actually start practicing and see what I can do. You don’t even have to know the skill specifics about different sports, but what you KNOW is how your athletes bodies work.

 That’s obvious to me. You guys are going to create some mutants REAL soon!”

BEAST!

                                                                             Good Job Andrew- Stay Forged Strong!!!

I wanna talk about some serious stuff here.

Breaking records.

If you’re an athlete training for sport, you’re trying to get better everyday.

If you’re not, why even compete?

If you’re not an athlete but love to train, you’ve got to approach this the same as an athlete.

You’re either getting better or you’re getting worse.

You never stay the same.

Everyday is a grind my friends.

A grind to get better.

Maybe just by a inch or sometimes a whole mile. You take steps forward.

The best way I know to be absolutely positive you’re taking steps in the right direction is by breaking records.

When I say records, I mean you’re own personal records.
Who cares what Johnny down the street is doing.  You worry about YOU.

As long as you’re adding weight to the bar, jumping higher, running faster, or getting quicker, that’s all that matters.

What type of progress are YOU making.

Break personal records.

To break personal records you need to creates records.

Challenge yourself – write stuff down – weights uses, times, inches, anything that can be measured and tested.

Write these things down then BEAT all of your recorded numbers.

Keep breaking records and you’ll be a winner.

Now get after it!

Check out this video – it gets me pumped!

I have such a passion for the iron that it doesn’t take much to get me going.  Even if I’m alone…

Do YOU have the passion?

Find YOU’RE passion and  break F*ckin’ records period!

Click here to view the embedded video.

Until next time,

Get Forged Strong!

Travis

PS – If you’re an athlete in the Omaha Area – we’ve got dudes signing up for memberships right now.  The gym is filling up! I wouldn’t want to be training just out of your high school gym or you local corporate gym and have to go up against a forged trained athlete – the result would not be pretty.

Contact me for info on how to join our gym.  Memberships are EARNED – can you earn a membership??

Contact me to set up a trial session NOW – 402-984-0791 or email theforgedathlete@gmail.com

I had a lovely finish to my workout the other day.  At the end I was DONE!

It was a finish to a workout that already involved 1 arm KB cleans to press and 1 arm bent rows.  This was my “strongman” day and I wanted to finish it off right.

Here’s what I did:

Zercher Carry – Sled Drag Medley

1A) Sandbag Zercher Carry x 25 yds

1B) Drag Sled Back

1C) KB rack walk x 25 yds

1C) Drag Sled Back

1D) SB Bear Hug Walk x 25 yds

1E) Drag sled back

I did this for 2 rounds as my legs were SHOT at the end.

I rested about 1:30 in between.

CHECK out the HIGHLIGHT reel ==>  Zerchers + Sled = Brutal Combo

This will get you strong as heck, build some serious work capacity and strength endurance.

Next go around I getting the heavy bag out there and another few KB’s to add two more rounds in there.  That’s going to be real brutal!!!