IAN HOLMES

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Training: Fear

How do you train fear? I wrote this in 2011.  It still is something I sit and ponder.  How do we best tackle the world of training our heads, perhaps the item that most separates…

Bachar Training: Climbing Focused Training

The Carny: I am building a bachar ladder The British Spy: That’s old school training. The Carny: ExactlySo I built a Bachar ladder this weekend. It is one of the old school training items, which…

Building Active Shoulder Flexibility

Flexibility is an expression of strength in a full range of movement.I have recently been doing a lot of work looking at rebuilding and strengthening my shoulder girdle.  It seems that people everywhere are dealing…

(p)Rehab: Stretching the Shoulder Girdle

Passive Stretching after Tissue ReleaeI commented a while ago on the notion that you need to do some passive stretching after doing soft tissue work on the musculature of the shoulder girdle. However I have…

Bachar Training: Static Strength and Lock Offs

Ladder Training: The BasicsAgain from the archives.  June 26th, 2012.  These ladders are rad. So about a week ago [Or two or three] I posted an article on my new toy. However due to some…

(P)Rehab: Foam Rolling and Point Release

Foam Rolling and Ball WorkThis one is from the archives.  May 15th, 2012.  Still relevant now. Soft tissue work at its most basic. This is a quick video that is going up to ensure that…

(P)Rehab: Forearms and hand pain

This post came out of the Irrational Fitness archives, having first been published on July 13th, 2012.  It and a number of other posts seemed worth salvaging from the archives, so here it is. PLAY…

Vertical Jump Training

This post came out of the Irrational Fitness archives, having first been published in May of 2012. It seemed worth saving given the results it got. Vert TrainingSo over a year ago now we built…

(P)Rehab: Basic Stretching

This post came out of the Irrational Fitness archives, having first been published on May 15, 2012 @ 15:46.  It and a number of other posts seemed worth salvaging from the archives, so here it…

(P)Rehab: Elbow Pain

This post came out of the Irrational Fitness archives, having first been published on May 15, 2012.  It and a number of other posts seemed worth salvaging from the archives, so here it is. Elbow…