Strength & Fitness Newsletter
The Strength & Fitness Newsletter is a weekly email newsletter which summarises the things added to Straight to the Bar (as well as a few gems from the archives). Absolutely free.
btw, I’d love to hear your feedback – both on the individual items and the newsletters themselves. Drop a comment below the relevant issue, or swing by Twitter ( I’m @scottbird ).
cheers,
Scott
Over to you. Any you’d recommend?
It’s fair to say that we’ve checked out quite a few images over the years – on Flickr & Smugmug in particular.
A friend of mine just pointed me to Chris Stanciu ‘s Instagram feed, which contains a great mix of nutrition and workout images :
instagram.com/officialgainsthetics.
NB : if you’d like to share your own images, just add them to one of the sites noted above and send us a link.
I suspect you love talking about strength training constantly (certainly the case here), and you’re always on the lookout for places to do that. Comments on various sites, forums as well as various in-person communities.
Online, I gravitate toward both Twitter and Facebook. In addition to the SttB offerings, here’s another one you may wish to check out :
Garage Gym Reviews (Cooper Mitchell’s page)
We’ve noted a few of his videos in the past, and they’re great for diving in deep on a particular type of equipment. Nice one.
To make this a little easier – and so people can dive right in to the topics that interest them – I use Twitter’s ‘List‘ functionality quite a bit. There’s a full list of them here :
https://twitter.com/scottbird/lists
Whatever you’re in to, it’s all there.
NB : the above lists are always being fine-tuned. If you know of someone who tweets regularly about a particular subject and should be on one of them, let me know.
Aging & Longevity (living for a very, very long time)
Electric Cars in Australia (great way to help tackle air-pollution)
Better Sleep Nightly (my favourite form of recovery)
And yes, they’re absolutely free.
If you’ve ever watched a Bruce Lee film and marveled at his strength, speed, agility, endurance, flexibility or muscularity, this book should take pride of place in your collection. Unlike many other writings covering everything from Lee’s training methods to nutrition, this book is based not on the recollections of people around him; but on Lee’s own notes. Brilliant.
Definitely worthy of a place on the fitness shelf.
Bruce Lee : The Art of Expressing the Human Body.
Craig Ballantyne certainly makes use of some great exercises in his workouts. Here’s the warmup clip from his 30 Minute Circuit Challenge workout, which includes several excellent bodyweight variations :
Of particular note : the Prisoner Sumo Squat and the Stick Up. Love ’em.
The other day I came across the site of Strength and Conditioning Coach Karsten Jensen (Yes To Strength), which has a number of great articles and several equally fascinating videos. Well worth checking out.