Dave Whitley: Lessons of the Old-Time Strongmen
Very few people understand the work of the old-time strongmen, and fewer yet can accomplish any of their feats. Dave Whitley is one such person, and in this live workshop DVD he’ll show you how some of the strength feats are done. Better yet, he’ll teach you how to use the strongmen’s methods to take your own training to levels you hadn’t imagined. Click for more information on Dave Whitley’s Strongman DVD.

Tracy Reifkind: Programming the Kettlebell Swing
Few people use the swing to its full potential — in this live workshop DVD, Tracy will show you how to do just that. From individuals looking for a basic conditioning progression to instructors who need a variety of intense kettlebell routines, this DVD will cover all the angles. You’ll be blown away by the variety possible using this simple movement. Click for more information on Tracy Reifkind’s Programming the Kettlebell Swing DVD.

Mark Reifkind, Lats: The Super Muscles
In this workshop DVD, Rif introduces the basics of lat kinesiology, and teach the steps needed to build a powerful back. Once you understand how the lats work, you can build strength, size and pushing and pulling power. You’ll finish this DVD with a new appreciation for this powerful, often-neglected muscle group. Click for more information on Mark Reifkind’s Lats, the Super Muscles DVD.

Dave Whitley, Kettlebell Fundamentals: Deepening Your Getup Skills
Single-hand pressing as well as Dave does allows him to teach it in a way that works for everyone. He’ll use the movements of the Turkish getup, the windmill and various bent press progressions to show you how to gain true strength that’s balanced from side to side. Click for more information on Dave Whitley’s Kettlebell Fundamentals DVD.

90 minutes of new training ideas!

This is part four of Dan’s IronOnline workshop, the final DVD of the series, in which he shows us his sample warm-ups, a few workout varieties, and his famous barbell complexes. Trust me, these aren’t your regular Bomber bodypart splits, although over the decades Dave’s done his share of barbell rows, presses and dumbbell farmer walks, and he’s probably also done our share.

One of Dan’s key phrases here was, “The warm-up is the workout,” and as he puts our crew through the paces, you’ll see how he can make that claim! He also uses members of the audience to demonstrate new movements, or to show his corrections when we went astray.

Here he uses Elke to show, as he tells the story and gives guidance on Koji squats, which I’m assuming you haven’t seen before.

Our original idea was this would be primarily for adults who’ve never lifted Olympic-style, and it’s certainly that, however one of the attendees is a competitive Olympic lifter, who told me a couple of Dan’s tips changed her lifting forever. I’m now thinking anyone interested in Olympic lifting will get something out of this one.

I pulled a couple of clips from the dvd to give you a taste of what went on during our time with Dan. First, let’s look at his take on pulling through the heels.

In this 80-minute DVD, Dan taught:

• Olympic lifting overview
• Snatch positions
• Push jerk
• Split jerk
• The Jerk
• Overhead squat
• Goblet squat
• Shoulder mobility
• Putting weights overhead
• Hamstring lengthening
• Romanian deadlift stretch
• Wrist flexibility

Now here’s one of value to everyone, even those without interest specifically in Olympic lifting: How to get wrist flexibility.

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You’ll perfect your form of the two most important RKC exercises:

The Hardstyle Swing

The Kalos Sthenos Get-up to Hips-High

Plus

The Program Minimum & Minimum Minimum

Dan’s Hip Displacement Continuum

Why Swings Hurt Your Back

Hardstyle Method Review

Rotator Cuff Stress

Joint Mobility Issues

Mark Cheng’s Four Knots

The Chain-Link Fence

Kenneth Jay’s VO2-Max

The Snatch

Spiked Swings

Towel Swings

Planks, Done Right!

RDL Stretch Position

Quarterback Hike Stretch

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Told with humor and great insight, you’ll learn:
~ The Role of the Strength Coach
~ Levels of Strength Coaching
~ How a Home Trainer Becomes His Own Coach
~ The Influence of Strength Coaching on Performance
~ Strength and Athletic Performance
~ How to Narrow Your Training Focus
~ Systematic vs Systemic Learning
~ Setting a Non-Competitive Training Goal
~ Phasic vs Tonic Muscles
~ How to Stay Youthful while Aging
~ Movements, Not Muscles
~ Dan’s Hip Displacement Continuum

Find out why Coach John is considered the go-to guy by top fitness professionals when they want to know what really works in strength and conditioning: It’s because he knows, and he teaches it well.

Also on this dvd, you’ll find his chalkboard slides and seminar handouts via pdf files accessible from your computer.

This is the first of four dvds from the June 2009 Utah workshop weekend. The others are Olympic Lifting Basics, Perfecting Your Kettlebell Form, and Warm-ups, Workouts and Barbell Complexes.

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Three cameras captured this one-time event for the history books — this is a video you’ll watch again and again!

Two muscular slide shows are included on the DVD, plus a 32-page booklet of a subsequent private conversation between Bill and Dave during which they discuss some favorite subjects untouched in the seminar.

From the September 2006 issue of Flex Magazine: A DVD That Delivers

Bill Pearl and Dave Draper erected the pillars of Hercules decades ago, and no one, not even petulant progress and the sport’s modern super celebrities, has been able to go beyond. Who could? Pearl and Draper are the liver and lights of bodybuilding. Their physiques have been envied for more than 40 years, but their wisdom, knowledge, character, passion and principles are what impel us to sit raptly at their feet, keep our mouths shut, and listen eagerly for hours to their every revelation.

Pearl/Draper is a joint seminar the two held at Dave Draper’s Santa Cruz, California, gym, and it’s surely the most compelling and valuable bodybuilding DVD ever. Come, now, what more could you ask? In the midst of a packed house of idolaters, who are literally hanging from the rafters and draped over railings, Pearl and Draper stand bowling-ball shoulder to bowling-ball shoulder, sharing their perspectives on “bodybuilding then and now, revealing truths, expelling myths and offering priceless insights” to all who ask.

So rich and profound is the content that, when the 75-minute DVD ends, one feels he’s lived a lifetime with these legends. No one, or 20, could have done it better, and the exclamation point to it all comes when revivified Ed Corney joins them from the audience.

Included as liner notes is a 32-page booklet of a separate private conversion between Pearl and Draper at Pearl’s sprawling penetrale in Oregon. Priceless, all of it. ~Julian Schmidt, Flex Magazine

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