MORE TRAINING IS BETTER????

 What kind of training are we talkin'. Is it more of the same? Are you adding variety? Changing up the load? Working outside your comfort zone? Staying strict to form and the movement pattern. The key is to train smarter . Not harder. You have heard this a thousand times (blah, blah, blah...) Smarter does not mean less effort. Eighty percent of a real  one hundred percent is needed. Know your real limits/strengths and work from there. But remember, is your real strength keeping the proper form. Showboating just injured you. You may not have walked out with a limp that day but it will catch up with you down the road-I promise. 

  IS HOLDING A WEIGHT HELPFUL? SEEM STUPID? It is only silly to the person that has never trained this way or to the person that can't hold the weight. The rest of us know the training works. Life is static holds. Period. Rarely do any of us snatch, grab and run the distance. No, we hold the position. Carrying a couch is a walking static hold. Groceries, the kids, boxes, brief case, hunting, fishing,....I could go on but you get the picture. I don't train static 'leans' . This would be helpful at a bar but the training is disproportionate and awkward. A simple static hold is the plank. This is simple and sinister. Forget the shiny things as Brett Jones calls them. Stick to the basics. Here's a news flash- If you can't do the basics, you haven't earned the right to train using the 'shiny' skills. IT TAKES DISCIPLINE. THE COMPULSORY IS NOT SEXY !!! BUT IT WILL SAVE YOUR BUTT. I say this with love.  

~'nuf said.

~Michael

P.S. The picture has nothing to do with KB training. I just love the poster. Uncle Sam is hard-core!!