Chris is hosting a Strength Workshop this weekend, check it out if you’re in the area:

Strength Workshop with Chris Riley

June 29th, 2013

Twin Freaks CrossFit, 101 Pratt Street, Longmont, CO 80501

Increase Your Strength, Lifting Form & Results while Preventing Injuries

The Workshop will deliver –   Detailed individual instruction for these five lifts.

Squat

Press

Deadlift

Bench

Power Clean

+ General Mobility Techniques

Coaching will include:

•             Explanation of the lift, benefits, what you should expect with correct technique & programming

•             Demonstrations – you see the correct technique for power and results

•             Interactive coaching – Hands on with you, get your lifts right in the workshop

•             Trouble shooting – Form adjustments for maximum efficiency and future results

Itinerary – 8 Hour Workshop

Including lunch break

Intros and review the plan for our day                             Start 8:00 a.m.  –  Finish ~4:00 p.m.

Coaching the Lifts – We will cover these points for all the lifts

• Maximizing  your lift efficiency
• Review  the mechanics, relevant musculature, application of high bar vs. low bar
• Adjustments for improving your lift strength
• Coach individual movements, make technique adjustments for maximum results
• The carryover benefits of each lift to other strength sports. I.e. Weightlifting, Powerlifting, Crossfit, Football, etc.
• The Lifts – Squat, Press, Deadlift, Bench, Powerclean, Mobility – what, why, and how it will benefit you.

contact Chris through his log for more info

70’s Big Mike traveled all the way up to CT to compete in a Strongman Contest this past weekend. Here’s Mike’s video recap along with commentary.

Also, AC & Co. started a 70’s Big instagram feed, available for your viewing pleasure here

Today’s article was submitted by our neighbor to the north, Mark Marotta.  Mark’s accomplishments include holding some Canadian national records, coaching kids at his school, and not totalling at the Arnold. He enjoys trolling vegans, underground canadian hip-hop, and eating meat. 

Raise Your Ale Horn to the Sky

Toast it to Odin. For he is the one allows it to be full.

If you’ve eaten today, he is the one that allowed the quenching of your hunger.

Odin is the Norse God of War. He is not a kind God, but he is a fair God. If you wish to have any level of success in your quest for strength you must devote yourself to him. Strength is not something that can be bought with gold; if you wish to become a warrior you must show Odin that you are paying the Iron price. Rise with his steel bar on your back. Press it above your head. Pull it off the floor; let it forge you into the Viking warrior you wish to be. Weaklings are not allowed into Valhalla.

If you wish to be allowed to Valhalla you must prove to Odin that you will endure the beating the steel bar will give you; that the spoils of strength are worth the struggle against gravity. If you cannot fight the steel bar, you are not built to wield the axe, the sword, or the hammer in his war. If you can’t fight for Odin what good are you to him?

Men, how would you like to be known? As the so-called ‘modern-man’ who hires others to do his yard work? Who crafts neither steel nor wood? Or a warrior whose body is capable of turning any mountain set before him to rocks and dust?

Ladies, how would you like to been known? As the woman who needs a man to open large doors for her? Someone who feels threatened on dark streets? Or as the woman whose purse is safe from the scoundrels of the night, for they feel threatened by her proud march and confidence in her strength.

If you’re a skeptic I have proof that all strength is gained from Odin. His most famous son, Dan Green totalled 2160. Try to tell me that this is not an Odin fearing man you see:

It is even said that Jennifer Thompson bench presses the weight she does because she devoted her body and soul to Odin. If you speak to Odin, he will listen, not to your words, though. Odin knows the words of men are not worth the weight of the ink used to write them, you speak to Odin with your actions. You push yourself to your limits, he will make your body strong for it. You care for his land; he will provide you with its nourishment. You die fighting for him, he will collect your soul to his haven.

Poems have been written for Odin, read them to fuel your mind. Songs have been sung for him, play them loud while you train. Raise your mead to the sky before every meal and thank him. He gives you the flesh of beasts, feast upon it to absorb their strength and add it to your own.

Now go forth, and train for Odin, and he will be your guiding light in the darkest corners of hell.