Garage Blog

The Zercher Squat, and its derivative exercises, are named after Ed Zercher dating back almost a century ago to the 1930s. He invented the Zercher squat out of necessity. The gym the dude worked out at did not have a squat rack and the Steinborn Squat was apparently not part of his repertoire. Information didn’t travel quite the way it does today.

Your bench press has plateaued and you’re not feeling stronger in push movements. What can you do to break the plateau and increase the pow...

As you think about the traditional thoughts around strength and what it means concerning athletes tends to conjure images of big, hulking individuals.....

I got to train with the world’s number one strength coach in MMA, Phil Daru, and he put me through Dustin Poirier style workout. SUBMIT ...

It has been our experience that a lot of grapplers in BJJ do not want to go in the weight room. They don’t want to spend time doing different l...

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a fighter’s sport. It is a combat sport. It requires supreme technique and a ton of mat time to perfect chokes, submissi...

In the sport of Brazilian Ju-Jitsu, there is a ton of grip work. Athletes who can get into a good position offensively or defensively sitting ...

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is legit af. As an athlete in the sport of BJJ, one may have entered their last couple of tournaments with technique line...