Josh Bryant
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I originally did these as duck walks with a dip belt, loading pin, and handle with Odd Haugen in the early 2000s for strongman. Back when strongman conditioning looked less like a fitness influencer salsa routine and more like a couple pissed off ranch bulls fighting over the last hay bale at the county auction. Now I use them primarily as prehab for my ankles and feet. Funny enough, they relieved my ankle soreness better than almost anything else I tried. I personally just do one ugly nonstop set. Sometimes up to 5 minutes straight. Looks like a wounded gorilla dragging a feed trough through wet cement. Works unbelievably well. Later I used lighter versions with general fitness clients in Santa Barbara and Nashville. I even used them training bikini competitors at Metroflex. Then football players. Baseball players. Big strongman mutants. I still use them for both performance and rehab. Why they hit different: Wide stance + marching shifts stress hard into the feet and ankle complex, glutes, adductors, and outer hips. The hanging loading pin forces stabilization the whole time. No smooth machine groove. No fancy bearings. No uptown country club feel. Just you, gravity, and consequences. The loading pin changes everything. The weight hangs straight down and drags you forward into the balls of the feet. That lights up the foot intrinsics, ankles, calves, hip stabilizers, and core anti rotation. It feels more like manual labor than exercise. More raw. More athletic. Less “fitness machine.” The movement also has a semi unilateral feel to it without the balance demands or joint stress of true single leg work. Easy learning curve. Massive carryover. I actually have a very nice belt squat machine. Originally the loading pin setup was out of necessity because I had no other option. Now it’s 100% my preference. Like choosing gas station barbecue over some tiny downtown steakhouse charging you $94 to leave hungry. Now I use them constantly for ankle resilience, conditioning, GPP, posterior chain work, and big athletes that need conditioning without getting beat up from running. One of the best high school strength coaches in the country, Coach Thomas Fahey Coach Fahey , shared a potentiation protocol with me using these. Coach Fahey has pushed these much heavier than I have and gotten incredible results with athletes. I have not personally run this exact protocol yet, but it was too interesting not to share. 2 minutes continuous marching at roughly 3 steps per second. Then immediately: 4–8 max height jumps. When jump height plateaus or drops off: Add a plate and repeat. If jumps improve again: Add another plate. Repeat for rounds 3, 4, 5… Constant tension. Short ROM. Low soreness. Very economical. You can load these brutally heavy without getting beat to pieces. I’ve also used these as conditioning intervals on machine belt squats while carrying sandbags. But the loading pin version still feels different. More foot. More ankle. More hip stabilization. More real world carryover. Best part? You can go brutally heavy safely. I personally have not pushed the limits on these yet. Coach Fahey has pushed them much harder with great results. I still think there’s another level there most people have not tapped into. Who else has messed with these?
Josh Bryant50,867 görüntüleme • 28 gün önce
Deadly Strength Sins Most lifters don’t need more information. They need fewer stupid detours. Here are the biggest mistakes keeping people weak, beat up, and stuck. MAJORING IN MINORS Chasing big lifts but treating skull crushers like the Super Bowl? Been there. Blew up my elbows years ago acting like assistance work was the main event. Assistance lifts support the foundation. They are not the foundation. The squat, bench, deadlift, carries, presses, rows: That’s the meat and potatoes. Cable kickbacks are seasoning. MOVEMENT INTENTION You are not sculpting delts during a 700-pound squat. Core lifts are about moving heavy weight from Point A to Point B: Fast. Clean. Violent. Efficient. Save the slow squeeze-and-feel bodybuilding mindset for curls, laterals, and cable crossovers. Heavy training requires aggressive intent. HIGH REPS FOR MAX STRENGTH Running marathons will not improve your 40-yard dash. Same idea with endless 20-rep sets building a huge 1RM. Technique changes under maximal strain. The bar path changes. The timing changes. Your body changes. A warm-up at 50% does not teach you how to survive 90%. If maximal strength is the goal: Lift heavy. 85%+. Low reps. Specific intent. Specificity beats sweat equity. WARM-UPS Want to get better at squatting? Warm up by squatting. Light weight. Perfect reps. Explosive intent. Groove the pattern. Wake up the nervous system. Build the fire before the heavy sets arrive. Specificity is king. EXERCISE ORDER Train your priority first. Period. You do not pre-fatigue your nervous system with fluff then expect greatness under a heavy bar. Fresh mind. Fresh body. Main lift first. FINAL THOUGHTS Getting strong is not complicated. The problem is lifters drown in noise. Fancy exercises. Circus tricks. Random workouts. Endless novelty. Meanwhile the strongest people in the world keep hammering the basics with intent, consistency, and progression. Lift with purpose. Prioritize core lifts. Do not let fancy fluff neuter your progress. Locked, loaded, and ready.
Josh Bryant35,893 görüntüleme • 21 gün önce
737 moved like an empty bar—speed, power, excellence. Julius just turned gravity into a suggestion.
Josh Bryant155,630 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
💪Towel Curls💪 Grip like you’re holding onto the last rib at the church picnic. Biceps like bowling balls, forearms like railroad ties & vice grip! 🔥Wrap the towel & squeeze like you’re choking out a rattlesnake. Cornerstone to a no-nonsense physique. 📸Tom Haviland
Josh Bryant38,467 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce
