Our clients down at Primal Fitness Pittsburgh have certainly worked up their work capacity and are now able to do snatches, push presses, and DOUBLE jerks quite well. The power training athletes that we have at the facility are of the more advanced types of lifters who are going for maximal amount of strength and […]
LAST CALL FOR THE 10,000 KETTLBELL SWING CHALLENGE! Win $150 Gift Certificate to US Wellness Meats!
ATTENTION PITTSBURGH!!!!!! I am looking for 17 people who want to swing through their plateaus, rev up their metabolism and look and feel BETTER than they did in their 20’s! Literally, we are going swing into action! All you need is a Russian Kettlebell and a willingness to learn the Russian Kettlebell Swing from yours […]
Tension Training for Pull Up Mastery: It Ain’t All in Your Traps!
I was given a task about three months ago to help Ryan Williams, our newest trainer at Primal Fitness Pittsburgh, to master his pull ups that he was having difficulty with at the time. During our first session, I noticed that much of Ryan’s pulling came directly from his trap muscles. Over the course of […]
Up and Down the Elevator: A Double Kettlebell Chain
Over the weekend in our power training course, I tested out a new workout on some of our clients that I have done myself. While I have been focusing much of my attention on training with double kettlebell complexes, this particular routine is a chain. Just to shed some light on the differences between a […]
THE SCORCHER! A Sinister Body Weight and Kettlebell Routine!
Happy Friday Everyone! After wrapping up my top 5 favorite things that I love about kettlebells, I wanted to hand you all off with a kettlebell and body weight routine that my small group participants got to test out last week. In our resistance and skill training course, small group participants get the added bonus […]
The Top 5 Reasons Why You Need Kettelbell Training in Your Life!
Had you asked me to identify a kettlebell 6 years ago, I would have given you a “wtf?” look and proceeded to ask a question many of you ask me when you meet with me for a consultation. What the heck is a kettlebell, really? A kettlebell is a cast iron ball with a […]
The Meat and Potatoes Workout
Happy Friday everyone! It’s been a while since we posted a workout here on Primal Fitness Pittsburgh. With the weekend upon us now, I wanted to give you all a fun workout to try out this weekend. In the words of one of our clients at Primal Fitness Pittsburgh, “this will keep your beast self […]
Move Better, Lift Bigger: The Benefits of Primal Move!
With the next couple of Primal Move workshops coming into play, I wanted to take some time to discuss what Primal Move is and how it can benefit the average Joe and serious athletes a like. Don’t get me wrong, I am a strength athlete by nature and really love pressing some heavy stuff above […]
Primal Move Fundamentals Workshop: Pittsburgh
HAPPY FRIDAY! This blog post is Primal Move round 2!!! It’s been a long time coming but Pittsburgh will now have an introductory level Primal Move workshop that will be hitting the North Shore April 12th! First off, let me make something clear about this particular workshop in comparison to other Primal Move workshops you […]
A Year in the Making: Onward to Level II
While on a conference call with an instructor friend of mine discussing the clean and jerk (shout out to Moses Correa for all the help on that one), we got on topic of discussion about certifying as level two instructors. It was April, 2013, nearly one year ago that I had just received my Level […]