Ladies, Are You Strong Enough?
At Westminster Strength and Conditioning we have a lot of strong women. At our gym, we take it for granted too often because we are literally surrounded by women who to the general public or gym goer can do absolutely amazing things with a barbell. We have several women who deadlift over 300 pounds. It’s normal to see women in almost every class we have pulling in the mid to high 200s for sets...
Read MoreThe Ritual of Barbell Training
I stood in a weight room the other day watching about 40 kids squat, press and deadlift. It was one of those rare occasions I wasn’t yelling something at a kid, “shove your knees out”, “chest up!”, “elbows in front of the bar!” All you could hear were the weights clanging, bumpers dropping, and yells from fellow lifters encouraging their training partner. I’m not sure why I...
Read MoreTexas Method Your Conditioning and Prowler Work
We put together an earlier article about incorporating conditioning into your strength program. We kept it pretty simple, gave a couple guidelines to follow and finished up with a few conditioning workouts that fit well with most strength programs. This time we wanted to get a little more specific and show how we use the prowler in our programming. Most of our intermediates will start off...
Read MoreBig Goals for 2013
2012 was an amazing year for CFR. We continued to introduce more and more of our friends and family to the wonderful world of strength. We have continued our goal of forging a stronger, healthier community in Carroll County. As we prepare to start 2013 we anticipate even greater things at CFR. It truly has been a great year and we owe it to you, our friends and family at the...
Read MoreAdding Conditioning Work To Your Strength Program
For many people the transition from a pure strength program to a program that incorporates more conditioning while still building strength can be difficult in the early stages. Once you have run a strength program past the novice phase and begin intermediate programming it may be time to begin adding a couple days of conditioning work in addition to your intermediate strength work. What,...
Read MoreUnsticking a Sticky Bench
Usually one of the first lifts to stall is the bench. There are a couple reasons for this. For the ladies, upper body strength is tougher to come by and while you slap pounds on the squat and deadlift with ease the bench and press become a constant struggle within a couple month of your strength journey. For the guys its usually because you come to us from Gold’s with a big bench but...
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