by David Sandel | Feb 15, 2011 | Climbing, Training
Hey! Long time no write, right? I’ll spare you the details on that, mostly because I’m typing this with one finger on my iPhone. Do not fret your little faces off, my web presence has not completely dropped off. I wrote a piece on “Work, Physics, and...
by David Sandel | Nov 30, 2010 | Climbing, Random Awesomeness, Training
It feels a lot to me like grip training is the new strongman training. Strongman training used to be popular back in the early days before people really knew (or cared) about how they were supposed to lift to get big and strong. They just kinda lifted heavy shit all...
by David Sandel | Nov 24, 2010 | Climbing, Food, Lifestyle, Random Awesomeness, Training
As your most favoritist and most respected health professional (RIGHT?!?!) I’m supposed to guilt you into not enjoying the holiday season. I’m supposed to tell you to not eat a bazilllion calories over the next month and a half. I can’t do that. It...
by David Sandel | Nov 15, 2010 | Climbing, Food, Lifestyle, Random Awesomeness, Training
I was just thinking last night how simple this is. Everyone likes to make it so much more complicated than it really is. “Eat this, not that”; “4 sets of 5 are ‘better’ than 3 sets of 10”; “Steady state cardio sucks, all you...
by David Sandel | Nov 7, 2010 | Announcements, Climbing, Food, Lifestyle, Random Awesomeness, Rants, The Journey, Training
Ho-kay! Super duper, team! Way to go! Can you believe it’s been 100 posts already?! Actually, I’m sure the big time bloggers average close to 100 posts every 2 months. Me? Close to 2 years. Muahahahaha! In true fashion of this website, I’m going to...
by David Sandel | Sep 8, 2010 | Climbing, Training
That title makes me giggle. I hate it when people describe a lift as being functional. What does that mean? Does that mean that a squat isn’t functional because they’re not called functional squats? What about functional strength? Does that mean...
