How to Deadlift When You Can't Pull from the Floor with Good Form | Eric Cressey | High Performance Training, Personal Training

How to Deadlift When You Can't Pull from the Floor with Good Form | Eric Cressey | High Performance Training, Personal Training Good, basic deadlifting tips from Cressey.

Never Forget the Plain Old Vanilla

Never Forget the Plain Old Vanilla The basics are still essential to building a better athlete.

Today's Training: Total Body Strength

  Starting the road back to heavy deadlifting as the thought has entered my mind to do a push/pull powerlifting meet in early November. We will see how the next month's training goes first!

Warmup: Indian clubs, ankle mobs, neck mobs, quad rocks, lower body rolling, cross crawl, 1/2 kneeling adductor

Workout: Double KB swings 5 x 5 @ 45 ea. on the minute; Sumo Deadlift-1 x 5 @ 135, 1 x 5 @ 185, 1 x 4 @ 225, 1 x 3 @ 275, 1 x 2 @ 285, 1 x 2 @ 300, 3 x 1 @ 320; Superset: Suspended decline pushup 4 x 15 w/ Suspended inverted rows (ft. elevated) 4 x 15; KB Farmers walks 3 x 80 yds. @ 32 kg. each.

Comments: First week in quite a while where I did 3 good strength training sessions. Perhaps my body needed some recovery with all of the baseball, sprinting, squash, and cycling. 
   Thinking of doing a Push/Pull powerlifting meet in early November so we will see how the training goes in the next month.

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Today's Training: Sprints & Med Ball Work

    Today I went out relatively early and did a training session on a local college track/soccer field. I love doing my sprint work on the turf field as it is so much easier on my legs and joints than an all weather track which can be brutal. Modern synthetic tracks are only slightly less hard the paved surfaces IMO!

Warmup: Indian clubs, quad rocks, cross crawls, lateral squats, leg swings, toe/heel walks, march series, skip series

Workout: Med ball circuit-chest pass 2 x 12 @ 8 lbs; Med ball side toss-2 x 8 @ 8 lbs; Soccer throw-2 x 8 @ 8 lbs.
   Sprint acceleration ladder: 10-20-30-40-50 x 2 with walk back for recovery between sprints and 2 min. recovery between sets. Then 2 x 50 meters to finish.

Comments: This was one of those sessions where I struggled...sluggish, felt slow, wasn't moving well or efficiently. Not surprising considering the crappy night's sleep I got but nonetheless got through it though it wasn't pretty by any means.

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Today's Training: Strength Training-Total Body

   Didn't have much time today due to training clients and taking my Mom to the doctor's office for an eye checkup.
   So put together this circuit with a "finisher".

Warmup: Ankle mobs, wall slides, lower body rolling, quad rocks, cross crawls, Bear crawls

Workout: Circuit: KB swings- x 10 @ 32 kg; Box jumps- x 5; Weighted chins x 6 @ 40 lbs; High step-ups x 8 @ 25 lbs. each; band resisted ft. elevated pushups x 12 @ 1/2" band.
    4 circuits w/60 seconds between circuits for recovery.
"Finisher": KB Farmers carries 3 x 75 yds. 2 32 kg. each.

Comments: Good session as I haven't done one of these type of metabolic strength training circuits in a while. You have to improvise sometimes when pressed for time and this was a good day for that.

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Strength and Conditioning Programs: Crossfit for Baseball? | Eric Cressey | High Performance Training, Personal Training

Strength and Conditioning Programs: Crossfit for Baseball? | Eric Cressey | High Performance Training, Personal Training Crossfit not a good fit for baseball as it's usually programmed.