Magnus Dojo

When it comes to strength sports Weightlifting has a far more storied history and prestige than powerlifting. It has one recognized international governing body and is contested in the Olympics, at least for now.

To be the top of either sport you need to dedicate yourself wholly to that sport. For the majority of lifters though there is a lot to be learned from both sports.

We are starting to incorporate more variations of the classical lifts from Weightlifting (Clean and Jerk, Sn**ch). While we are unlikely to do the classic lifts themselves, we are starting to use sn**ch grip high pulls, power cleans and push presses, behind the neck presses with a sn**ch grip, muscle sn**ches, front squat plus power jerk, etc.

The kickass garage gym is becoming a kickass basement gym. At our new location we are going to have 1500 sq feet compared to the current 400 sq feet.

Max Effort Upper
Close grip Incline Bench Press with red shoulder saver pad* to a 1 rep max
Close grip Incline bench press with pad for 3 sets of 8 reps
Skullcrushers 3 x 8-10
Single arm pressdowns with gr***de attachment 3 x 8-12 reps
Side lateral raises 3 x 10 reps
Reverse cable flies 3 x 10 reps

War wagon 10 x 100 foot trips

Bench presses were done with the elitefts shoulder saver pad available at link below. These help reduce strain on the shoulders. We used a closer grip to increase the range of motion.

elitefts™ Red Shoulder Saver™ Pad elitefts™ Red Shoulder Saver™ Pad The smaller brother to the original elitefts™ Shoulder Saver™ Pad, the elitefts™ Red Shoulder Saver™ Pad is designed to protect your shoulders while still allowing you to bench. The Shoulder Saver™ is arguably the ...