Greg Morris, SFG I, FRCms

Friendly reminder that your classic bodyweight accessory exercises never go out of style. And may also be more efficient and effective than a lot of the other stuff.

Dips and pull ups > whatever you’re doing, more than likely.
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Been slacking on posting recently, like usual. He’s a pre-primal party PR bent press, with a near post-press pass out after

Finally breaking triple digits. Should’ve brought it down and up for the full Gardner lol
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DEAR GRAPPLERS:

Seriously, why don’t you work zerchers? It’s just so dang applicable for your sport. Zercher squats, zercher lunges, zercher everything.

Tell me your soft reason for avoiding them below 👇
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Plateauing on a lift? Maybe change your stimulus up. Taking the principle of ‘Spend more time where you’re weak’ to it’s logical endpoint.

ISO’s are pretty slept on by a lot of people, but are getting a lot of love recently. That makes me happy. Billion ways to skin a cat, but never underestimate simply TRYING REALLY HARD in a position.

When the load doesn’t move, I can just practice making as much torque and force as possible in the bottom, with no real fear of coming out of position and feeing beat up later.

Figure out where you suck. Address it.
Don’t make it more complicated than it needs to be.
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Was working some strict barbell military press for the past month or so. Progress slowed down, so rather than beat my head against the wall, I’ll address the same goal with a different movement. I used today to test where about I am out the gate, and then I’ll use that information to make a simple, basic progression.

Once progress slows down noticeably, I’ll change my main movement or maybe play with my rep scheme. Rinse and repeat.

Obviously there’s a million ways to skin a cat, and that’s the fun, and the art in training. Sadly it’s also the problem; it’s easy to get lost in the billions of ways to accomplish the goal.

It doesn’t have to be hard, or confusing. Know your goal -> Find the main thing that feels most productive that supports that goal -> Invest in it until it stops giving you reasonable returns. Rinse and repeat.
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Monkey Man V5 went down. Barefoot felt appropriate lol.
Shout-out for the day, video and commentary
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Here’s another fail for your Friday. Wasn’t able to keep locked into a certain spot I’ve been emphasizing, so rather than disconnect juuuust a smidge more to gut out the rep like I may want, i just set it back down 🤷🏻‍♂️.

Friendly reminder that the vast majority of us aren’t competing in any kind of weightlifting whatsoever, so sometimes, there’s no point in gutting out a rep you can feel is gonna be sloppier than you’d like.

Hell, even if you do compete, chances are you’re probably trying to keep your ratio of crisp, clean, powerful reps to s**tty ones as positive as possible.

I didn’t PR (this movement) today though. Oh nooooo.🙄
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Just a picture of the process. Still exploring and grooving a solid route in my bent press; probably could try and stay vertical in my leg on loaded side more/longer.

Nothing special to say today. Practice your stuff, be intentional, and try to think about how you could do it better next time 🤷🏻‍♂️. Progress is incremental, so the better you get at looking for, celebrating, and making the SMALL improvements, the longer you’ll be able to consistently grow.

At like, anything pretty much. Not just strength training lol
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KEEP THE GOAL THE GOAL
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This isn’t a s**t ton of weight for my legs to push. But, getting into this deliberate, much more aligned position behind the rack IS a lot for me.

So, the goal for these squats isn’t pure leg strength. It’s ‘Can I finish this movement without squirming and compromising my spine in the same way I have been the last decade?’

Ego is only going to get in the way. The strength won’t go anywhere, but sometimes, you gotta take a step back and dig a little deeper before you can move forward 🤷🏻‍♂️

So instead of stroking my ego, I picked a squat in which I could reliably keep myself in the position I wanted, and trained the thing I found that was lacking.

The goal is the goal. Don’t back squat just because you feel like you have to, ESPECIALLY if that’s all you’ve been doing for 5+ years
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Just casually trying to hurt myself in a physical therapy clinic. Same as usual. Grateful to for welcoming me to an old home after the old spot suddenly fell apart lol

First time actually trying Continental Squats. Reeeeeally didn’t need to drop down into a basically ass-to-grass high bar squat there, but hey 🤷🏻‍♂️. Feels like a lot of value you might not expect in the hike up the back; definitely not an exercise to be reckless with, but like most old school strong man stuff, isn’t as scary or dangerous as it seems. Just don’t be near a rack or like, anything, really 😬

List of people I’m trying to make proud:




First day. Critique overwhelmingly welcome