Legendary Strength Blog

The majority of the time you should be content to make small jumps improving in your workouts. Great progress over time is made by these small steps.

But once every so often its great to challenge yourself. Doing a workout that is longer and tougher than the normal fare.

Over the years I’ve done many of these of all different types. Like the Ultimate Royal Court Challenge. Or a 1000 rep kettlebell snatch test.

These workouts are always grueling and tend to stick with you for some time, even if you never doing something like it again. And you’ll always be paying for it in soreness then next day.

Above all else these challenges are a battle of mental toughness. Its so easy to give up and quit and takes so much effort to keep on going.

One reason I bring this up is that for those celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow may find themselves with extra time on their hands (I suppose unless you’re doing the cooking). And that time can be put to good use in a challenge workout.

Afterall, you can put to good use all the food you’ll be eating in repairing your body.

If you take up a challenge or have done some great ones in the past I’d love to hear about it.

In strength,
Logan Christopher

P.S. On a different note, there’s a new feat of strength page on the site, this one on phonebook tearing.

Don’t know if you’ve heard the news but the man behind the strength training classic, Dinosaur Training, is about to release a new book. That’s right Brooks Kubik is now taking pre-orders for Legacy of Iron, which in my opinion is an awesome title.

I ordered myself a copy last night and can’t wait til I get my hands on  it, especially since its so different. You’re gonna have to go there to see how.

Head on over to his site at www.brookskubik.com and do yourself a favor by grabbing a copy. And if you don’t have the original Dinosaur Training in your library be sure to get that too.

Having met Brooks and seen his work I know that this one will be a masterwork. What are you waiting for…

In strength,
Logan Christopher

Got a few new feats of strength up on the site. These are one’s you don’t see very often. Mostly because they’re painful and seemingly dangerous.

First up is feats of strength involving the hair. This is one I’ve personally done in the past and plan to do more of in the future. But there is one man who is taking the hair feats to a new level. Go see the videos.

Another is feats of strength involving teeth and jaw strength. Most people don’t want to risk chipping a tooth but a few seem to have a mouth full of iron.

On top of those two new one’s I’ve added a video on barbell juggling. Nothing too special considering this was my first attempt, but now you can see a few moves in action.

Even if you don’t plan on ever trying these feats, you can enjoy watching them happen.

In strength,
Logan Christopher

After a long time of practicing kettlebell juggling, I wanted to switch it up. I wanted to revisit just the basic kettlebell snatch and see how far I could take it.

Primarily I was interested in doing a 10 minute snatch test with multiple hand switches and seeing what kind of numbers I could get. The kettlebell juggling had helped me out but its still took a little time to get back into the groove of many repetitions.

200 reps with the 53 lb. kettlebell is known as a good standard to hit. And I had hit it before but now I wanted to surpass it.

Right now my best resides at 207 reps. But I haven’t used that weight for the past three weeks. Why?

A little bit of an experiment. Last week I did the test with the 70 lb. kettlebell and scored 136 total reps. This left me sore for a few days. My main goal here was to get use to a bigger weight.

This morning I decided to use the lighter bell, only 35 lbs. Hit 250 without much trouble. My goal here was to improve speed, which I felt I was lacking earlier. And let me tell you this is a very quick pace. Can’t go much faster at all.

Next week I’ll return to the 53 lb. bell and see how it goes. I’ve no doubt that I’ll improve but we will see by just how much.

Sometimes its to your advantage to work with other weights, for higher or lower reps, especially if you’ve hit a plateau.

In strength,
Logan Christopher

P.S. And after a couple months of this, I’ll probably be back to the kettlebell juggling. You can get started at with The Definitive Guide to Kettlebell Juggling

There’s a few new feats of strength up on the site.

We’ve got juggling weights, of course with kettlebells but also the rarely seen barbell juggling.

In addition you’ll find a page on grippers and hand balancing.

Gonna be adding more over the week as well as shooting some demonstration videos.

Head on over to the Feats of Strength page.

In strength,
Logan Christopher

You probably saw some of the feats of done recently while in the bridge. Now I don’t think everyone should be having a sledgehammer swung at them while in a wrestler’s bridge, but its just an application of the strength I’ve built up through exercise.

What everyone does need is a stronger neck. All too often this area is sorely neglected by most training.

Besides a few shrugs all my neck training in the past five years or so has been the various bridging movements I do. And since I’ve gotten much stronger in that time the exercises had to be made to suit in intensity.

And that’s only a piece of it. You combine it with the various gymnast bridge moves and you’ll be building strength from your fingers to your toes along with much need flexibility and agility.

Now these exercises aren’t for everyone. But if you want a more resilient neck and spine along with much else you should at least check it out.

I’m going to be releasing a course soon that covers the A to Z on bridging. But before that happens I want to share with you some of my ideas on this training as well as some of my exercises from the course.

All you have to do is raise your hand and say I’m interested. Just go to the following page and enter your name and email. In a few days you’ll be getting the fr.ee info.

www.advancedbridging.com

Like I said I will be selling the full course next week. If and only if you like what you’ve seen up to that point and want to get much more you’ll be able to get the whole enchilada.

And if you don’t, that’s fine. I hope you use what I’ll be showing you regardless.

Take the step and go signup. You’ll get to see a video of some of what you’ll be learning there. www.advancedbridging.com

In strength,
Logan Christopher

P.S. I know its called advanced bridging, but really this is for all levels. If its something you want to learn more about sign-up now.