Angles and Arches—Using the Floor to Strengthen Your Press
Our most recent program at Queensland Kettlebells has included a lot of floor presses, with good reason. If you haven’t encountered the...
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Oct 1, 20196 min read
Ride the Wave: How to Program for Progress
If training consistently is the foundation of results, does that mean doing the same thing over and over? If you want to keep making...
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Aug 13, 20195 min read
Controlling Gravity for Better Squats, Deadlifts, and Presses
The very definition of a lift is moving load upwards against gravity; but what goes up must come down. If you’re only paying attention to...
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Feb 5, 20199 min read
The Bottoms-Up Experiment
Want to forge an iron grip that lasts (which can be one of the quickest ways to improve your deadlift, pull-ups, and snatches)? Improve...
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Oct 23, 20185 min read
Press Stronger NOW with the Kettlebell Pull Press
We all want a stronger kettlebell press. Boosting your strength baseline makes everything else, everything before, relatively easier. But...
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Sep 18, 20183 min read
Your Multipurpose Strength Tool (aka the Get-up)
“We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us.” —Marshall McLuhan Our “tools” could be looked at as our implement (a kettlebell,...
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Jan 8, 20188 min read
Easy Reg Park: A New Program to Train Your Basic Six
The StrongFirst school of strength offers several programs to structure your training and develop your athletic qualities. Simple &...
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Sep 19, 20175 min read
How to Get Better at Everything by Training Multiple Get-Ups
Building total body strength and conditioning is no easy task. It takes time, effort, and consistency. Developing strong shoulders, hips,...
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May 23, 20175 min read
Press the Kettlebell—for Healthy Shoulders and a Big Bench Press
Up until 45 years ago, the overhead military press was actually the third event in Olympic weightlifting, along with the snatch and the...
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May 4, 20173 min read
How to Build a Skill: Using the Get-up to Develop the Press
It’s likely you’ve read dozens of articles on the get-up, and it’s also likely that most of these articles focused on how to do the...
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Apr 11, 20173 min read
The 3 Cleans: The Relationship Between Form and Function
Not near as exciting as The Three Musketeers and not near as entertaining as The Three Amigos, but there are three kettlebell cleans....
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Mar 30, 20176 min read
Strength in Numbers: A Case for Pushup Endurance Training
If you have never heard of Herschel Walker, you should look him up. He was an outstanding football player who won the Heisman Trophy in...
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Mar 14, 20176 min read
Pushing for a Better Pull?
Early on in my education with kettlebells, I would hear occasional stories about people who followed a pressing-intensive program (Rite...
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Feb 14, 20174 min read
The 2 Most Common Military Press Mistakes (and How to Fix Them)
“It’s all easy till it’s heavy!”—Mark Reifkind Having performed, judged, and observed many heavy or max attempts in various lifts, I can...
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Dec 22, 20167 min read
The Triple Progression System Explained
I’ve been asked numerous times to formally outline my triple progression system. In reality, it’s not mine—it’s as old as the hills....
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Oct 11, 20164 min read
Upgrade Your Strength with the Soju and Tuba Press Program
Back in spring of 2015, Mark Limbaga came up with the concept of a step/wave hybrid cycle. Once he shared the basic concepts with me, I...
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Sep 27, 20165 min read
The Many Valuable Reasons You Should Be Training the Push Press
The push press is a bit like the clean. The clean gets neglected because the swing and snatch are “so much cooler.” The push press seems...
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Aug 30, 20166 min read
The 3 Best Lifts for Developing Overhead Strength and Why
There’s something about putting heavy weight over your head that empowers you. But getting to the point where you have considerable...
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Mar 1, 20165 min read
The 3 Key Distinctions of the Kettlebell Press
The kettlebell press is a unique overhead press variation. Why would this press be any different from a dumbbell, barbell, or any other...
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Feb 9, 20165 min read
The SFG Level II Preparation Guide
You asked for it, so here it is: a guide to preparing for the StrongFirst Girya Level II Certification. The SFG Level I prep guide has...
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