Get to the best shape again after a decade of being lazy.

Good stuff, very similar bench tips as Alan Thrall

Brian how's your blood work brother?

A spinlock barbell is like ten bucks. Cut the threaded part and stop collar off one side and cut the threaded part off the other side leaving the stop collar on. Load standard plates down the handle just like a shoulderok and secure them with a standard 1" barbell clamp with no risk of the plates flying off. You just paid 15-20 bucks for a mace with a knurled handle.

Your content is always so inspiring! Thank you for the effort and thoughtfulness in your contents, Brian! 💯

My life consists of throwing around bales of hay, bags of horse feed, fixing fences, & lifting a reining saddle onto a 15+ hand quarter horse (I’m a small female). Normal weight training at the gym helps, but I’m taking up aerial acrobatics as a fun way to strengthen my core & challenge my mind/ body. I think training with sandbags & kettle bells will also help with my lifestyle.

I've got my plans for next year. I'll be working towards my purple belt and getting better at striking. By the end of the year I want to bench 140kg, squat 180kg, deadlift 200kg and press 100kg. Oh...and hopefully avoid the orthopedic people. I might have to buy a consult as I would like to add some strongman stuff into my lifting but not sure how. Merry Christmas to your family and the puppers Papa Brian.

Hi Brian, thank you a lot for making content! I do combat sports and honestly my cardio is great mainly because i took your advice and started doing antagonistic super sets on upper body days, and your approach to lifting where you have 4 days with 4 main lifts has helped me a lot with programming and strength. Once again thank you a lot!

I'm trying to rethink my training for 2025. I want to increase my strength but also increase my mobility and functionality. Also want to increase my cardiovascular system too. Just need the right programming.

Merry Christmas Brian. My 2025 purpose is to get strong and grow the youtube channel so that, like yourself, I can spread the positive message of movement and strength to as many people as I can.

taking stock of our training and our lives is always a good thing! Many thanks for the knowledge and inspiration! You have a Merry Christmas, Brother and I look forward to what you have going on here in 2025!

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Glad to have you back! Good nuggets here for me re:sandbags, pull-ups, running and bjj.

250kg deadlift by summer 2025 (currently at 235kg). 90kg strict ohp by winter 2025 (currently at 82.5kg). 130kg bench press by winter 2025 (currently at 122.5kg). 190kg back squat by summer 2025 (currently at 185kg). Been following 531 for a year and a half and seen incredible results. Aiming to consistently hit 4000 to 4500 calories daily and get some steady state cardio in twice a week in the new year! Thanks for all your videos and advice Brian, you're a constant inspiration to myself. Wishing you a merry Christmas and a happy New year! 🎄🏋️‍♂️💪👍

Martial Arts and Strongman are both healthy and useful in everyday life 🙏

I'm 67 , been working out for over 50 years. I couldn't stop if I tried.

Collab with stone circle when

My man brian, I am in a dark place right now. Please pray for me. Best of luck and health for you in 2025!

1. Health & Longevity 2. Possibly compete in the Masters divisions of kickboxing, one last time (coach is really pushing me to do that as a goal) 3. Be f%^&$able.

One of mine is bent pressing my BW. I'm just under 75%

Sixpack before christmas let's go

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I'm going to do bodybuilding in the 2025, after years of strength focused training

My training purpose for 2025 is to not freaking diet and just embrace the bloat. I have so much potential that I've struggled to realize because I get butthurt about how fat my face looks and will crash diet like 60lbs in 2-3 months. So I end up spending a good half of the year just recomping and rebuilding the strength I lost on that cut. I've got my first strongman comp in January, never competed in anything and I have a feeling competing is going to change everything for me. I've had more fun training axle clean and press, log, stones and sandbags than I ever have in my life. It's just all new and exciting, and funnily enough it's actually making me so much stronger and well-rounded. Always soft locked my hips on deads/squats, and the triple extension required for stones, sandbags, throws, log, and axle have been a game changer for me. I had strong glutes, but only in their lengthened position, never did any full hip extension work. Turns out that's what was causing my debilitating lower back pumps over the years anytime my bodyweight got past ~275lbs. Feel like a beginner again, training is fun, making noob gains as an advanced lifter, or maybe I was just an intermediate all along haha either way I'm having a blast and am super optimistic about what I can achieve next year :)

Love you brother and merry christmas to you and yours!!!excellent video amd perfectly timed, 100% im in one of those categories and i definitely need to make some changes for the new year 😁

Had a rough few weeks. Gonna spend the rest of the month getting volume ramped back up…kind of a bridge block to an actual program…hopefully your new program is what I’m looking for because you have a tendency to drop programs at the perfect time for what I’m looking for!

Taking a break from strongman and fully committed to olympic weightlifting to do a competition.

Sandbags and Kettlebells i am convinced are the greatest universal training tools for strength and endurance

You’ve done a lot for my training for about half a decade. Thanks for all you do.

Man I hit a wall my energy has dropped off a cliff. When I make it in it’s longer and longer til I make it back in.

The reasons to train....don't let the old man in...as soon as you let him in, life becomes hard/harder. A big fear isn't dying but living the last 20 years of my life who can't walk or go up stairs or wipe his own ass, etc, etc. Also, I'll likely have grandkids in a couple years and I soooo look forward to it, but i want to be present more than just that I'm alive but i want to be present for those nature hikes/walks with them...going fishing...playing catch in the back yard, etc. Also, medical bills are expensive AF! so staying healthy is key to limiting those medical bills!

God put this in my feed this morning. Going through these anxieties this week, having registered for Bull of the Desert Strongman in February. First timer sixty something.

I'm watching this again and still laugh at the "alive lifts"

Great tips!

This video helped me so much thank you so much

On the things you would change about the Bruin boot, mainly the steel toe.... Jim Green out of South Africa has some "barefoot"/zero drop options that have a lot of similarities with the Bruin. They have the Barefoot African Ranger, which is arguably more of a durable shoe -- and then the Barefoot African *Trooper*, which is a full height boot. Unfortunately neither come stock, off the shelf with a steel toe, but Jim Green has a custom boot builder that people have used to do just that. They have a zero drop steel toe last (that you can actually use to custom build any of their boots). It'd be pricier to go that route, but it's one of the few options (maybe the only one) out there that might be exactly what you want.

Good Topic of video, I've Just came across this new sandbag training & will most likely invest in some.

1:53 shoulder blades 2:38 arch 6:24 full setup

Sorry if you mentioned this but how often do you do these in a week?

Cheers mate short but super informative!

Thank you for this!!

I always liked Brian. He stays away from talking bad about other KZbinrs and just focuses on helping you.

Anybody ever tell you that you look like John Cena 🤔

2024

This guy looks just like jon cena, he should be his stunt double.

I cant do dips cause my left thumb hurts. Dont think i can move the wrist out or grip it tightly, and probably not strong enough. But other stuff is good advice for me.

SO well explained with a great analogy, instant sub 👌

I'm excited because i just got my grandfathers log chains this weekend and i'm going to use them for overhead speed work!

The more efficient you get the more weight you can do. It’s a whole body. In this video you are still muscling it. You need to master it more to pendulum it more. Counter its forces.