Welcome to Straight to the Bar
If you’ve just joined us, welcome. Here you’ll find everything that grunts, groans and ticks in the world of strength training. In short, this site is the home of all things strength.
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To help get you started, here are a few of our most recent posts. And if you want to dive in to a particular area. check out the ‘Start Here‘ page above. Enjoy.
Sandbag Obstacle Course
From the incredibly inventive guys over at The Pound, a great training idea – a Sandbag Obstacle Course. Love it.
Russian Leg Lifts
Growth Hormone Diet
Via Better is Better : Brad Pilon takes a brief look at the impact of diet on growth hormone. Very interesting.
Gyrotonic
Gyrotonic. Via fitness.com : one of the strangest exercise machines I've seen this year, the Gyrotonic.
Planche Training: Strengthening the Mind/Body Connection
Planche.Via the Power by Pavel newsletter : how's your Planche progressing - painfully slow? Phil Jelinowski has a couple of ideas.
Making Changes : Winning the Gateway Classic
Matt investigates the Milos Sarcev approach to conditioning. And wins.
Indoor Parkour Conditioning
Want to get a workout in when the weather isn't the best? Here's an example of an indoor parkour conditioning session. Good stuff.
DC Special
Another interesting exercise from climber Dan Corn - the DC Special.
Fun with Oven Mitts
Adam Glass enjoying a little mitt action.
Vertical Card Tears
Chris Rider’s been here.