by Alec Enkiri On my web site: https://www.enkirielitefitness.com/blog/heavy-weighted-jumps Check out my re-usable training templates! Designed to take a trainee from beginner to advanced lifter while maximizing muscle and strength gains! I've started doing heavy weighted box jumps these last few months. I began the experiment wondering if there was a way I could further simplify and condense the benefits that Olympic lift variations have to offer when it comes to improving power performance, enhancing explosiveness, increasing raw athleticism, etc. I've talked about this concept in the past in my article covering snatch grip high pulls . The gist of it is that true Olympic lifts are very beneficial for athletes (as well as average Joe trainees), however they are also very, very technical. Because of this it can be difficult to glean all of the benefits they have to offer without putting in substantial work getting good enough at them to be able to adequately express the stre...

  by Alec Enkiri On my web site: https://www.enkirielitefitness.com/articles/home-gym Note: this article contains links to products that will help you start building a home gym. I own several of these products and can therefore vouch for their quality. Others that I do not own pass the eye test. I have not been paid a single cent to promote any of them. THE GLORY OF THE HOME GYM I first discovered the glory of owning my own personal home gym over a decade ago. I had been working out for about a year at the time and I knew I wanted to keep getting stronger, keep building muscle, and eventually reach my own potential and I decided it didn't make too much sense to keep paying gym dues - that would in short order exceed the cost of outfitting my own gym - and keep wasting time commuting to and from the gym every day for the next rest of my life when I had a perfectly viable garage available that could house whatever equipment I wanted or needed. And with the advent of COVID-19 and th...