Bodytribe Fitness

Today’s workout:

Max out on Jerk Presses. Put as much weight over your head with brilliant style!

Combo Catch o’ the Day: George Ivanovich Gurdjieff. A quick note: the farmer’s walk can be a sandbag carry as well as the ore traditional ’suitcase’ style.

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Opposites Attract… or maybe not.

For the astute in the audience, you may have noticed that the Bodytribe program design template is simply a variant of the Westside Barbell Club model, although our application of it might be unrecognizable to your average elite-level powerlifter. I recently submitted an article to Elite Fitness Systems for their weekly newsletter describing our interpretation of the WSB template, and I’ll link to it when it is published. But the intro to the article might provide discussion fodder with some observations of the extreme ends of the program design spectrum and how quasi-Nietzsche-esque archetypes sort of define these extremes. Here’s how it began:

Can there exist structure without rules? If you’ve a penchant for a more Apollonian protocol, you’d answer a passionate “no.” In the iron culture, structure would take shape in the form of principles and laws that you would vehemently apply to your training, sometimes dogmatically, despite the fact that such orthodoxy might actually limit your progress, or at least your possibilities.

As an ode to balance, let’s create a relatively rule-free structure, which I believe is not only possible, but also preferable to rigidity or chaos. An argument can be made that only through simplicity can this be achieved.

Then, of course, I explain what the heck we do, which was also the subject of this past week’s workshop. You can read the rest when Elite Fitness Systems posts the article.

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Speaking of workshops, this Saturday Bodytribe will be welcoming Steve Maxwell, here in town to teach his Body Weight Conditioning certification. For more info, check out the website here.

The usual Saturday Tune Up series will return on the 14th for two weeks, then come support Team Bodytribe at the APA Powerlifting Championships on Saturday the 28th. We’ll be represented by over a dozen lifters, many in their first meet.