WEIGHTdHow are your training sessions going these days? Are you making gains? Stuck in a rut? Bored with your current program?

Well one way you can fix your program if it’s not working or you just want a change is to include other types of training tools into your workouts.

You see our bodies don’t know what we are lifting, it just recognizes that we are putting a stress on our muscles with some form of resistance and will adapt accordingly.

I was brought up in the iron game lifting barbells and dumbells and training on machines and have seen great results in using all those training tools. In the last few years I have swithed things up and have gotten outside the box of traditional gym workouts and now include other strength training tools in my programs.

Don’t get me wrong I still love to get under the bar and lift heavy Dumbells and those are still a main part of my programs. But now I have thrown in some odd object training tools such as, big tractor tires, Kegs, sandbags, sledge hammers, pushing  and pulling vehicles, and sled dragging.

Now your training goals maybe just that you want to look good and don’t really care about real world strength and “being as strong as you look”.

Well my goal is to have both! Look great and be strong as hell!

And yes you can get strong as hell and look great just by lifting barbells and dumbells and including some machine work. But why just stick to that when there are so many other inexpensive tools you can use that will get you outside the gym, and maybe even out of that training rut that you are in!

Let’s face it with the ecomomy the way it is, times are tough for some of us and some gym memberships can get expensive. Most of the odd object strength training tools I am talking about are very inexpensive and some are FREE and you can do your training at home or in a nearby park or parking lot.

Here’s a short video of me and a couple of my buddies hitting some tire flips and farmer walks as finishers to a recent trainig session.

Yeah it’s hard work, but fun and rewarding!

Like I said I still love to get under the bar and do some traditional bodybuilder type training, but since I’ve started to include odd object, strong man type training in my programs, my physique has taken on a new form,

and…

I am getting as strong as I look!

And as a man and warrior that should be our ultimate goal.

Think Strong, Look Strong, Be Strong!