Hammerforge: School of Combat Arts

Another Saturday -

New beginnings -

Jab -

Grounded -

How often do you train events? @lukeerichardson here talking about how he’s improved over the years and having a little rant about doing zerchers as a conans wheel substitute😂 A lot of strongman make the mistake of only training the events when they have a competition coming up. Maybe for the last 6 weeks before a competition they’ll start doing medleys, yoke and farmers etc but is that the best way to train? Probably not. If you want a way to train the events every week, all year round you can consistently become a better athlete. And then if you have a competition come up at short notice you’ll be a lot more prepared than the person who only did the events a few weeks before. Small things like rotating between doing farmers and yoke every week, or doing some moving event EMOMs to act as conditioning work during an off season, while still getting event skill work in will pay dividends down the line. This is one of the things that helped Luke win Europe’s Strongest Man in 2020, after the world had shut down with covid and there were no competitions on the horizon, it would have been simple to just not train the events. When ESM was announced Luke knew he had a few months of solid skill acquisition under his belt and went onto win a 9 event show! Showing a level of consistency in his first year in the sport that not enough people give him credit for.

Working the bags -

A great event with an important mission

Muhahahahahaha, this photo shoot was fun... and these fridges get hot! DAMN THEY GET HOT 💀💀💀 Thanks to our new sponsor

Class 7/16/22

Hammerforge Martial Arts | Gainesville FL Hammerforge, Home of Via De Custos: An American Martial Art - striking and grappling fused Functional Strength Training. Lift heavy, hit hard, protect those you love. This is the Guardian Way.

Kick it -

A different kind of post: When building muscle, you will often hear the term "bulking". It is accomplished via caloric surplus, which is usually around 300-500 calories beyond TDEE (total daily energy expenditure). When combined with sufficient mechanical tension, sleep, protein, micro and macro nutrient intake, something called "the training effect", aka adaptation occures: Bigger, Faster, Stronger. Diet is critical for the body to maintain, repair and improve... you can not get something out of nothing. Diet directly affects performance, the difference between success and failure, you cannot out train a poor diet. BTW, chicken tenders wrapped in black forest bacon... not a cutting season nor "clean bulking" haha. And those blueberries, man... fresh off the vine from have single handedly ruined store bought blueberries for me.