Last weekend, legendary strength coach Steve Maxwell and our very own Austrian gorilla Dominik Feischl joined forces and held an amazing two day seminar at Dominik's nature training camp in Upper Austria. Of course, this was an opportunity not to be missed and I'm very glad that I took part in it. The amount of information presented by Steve and Dominik was simply amazing and I'm still digesting and trying to remember all of it.
Due to Coach Maxwell's vast experience there were lots and lots of different topics covered, ranging from Steve's famous joint mobility program, which consists of techniques from all over the world, to traditional bodyweight exercises, ancient martial arts conditioning using implements like clubbells and maceballs, tireflipping, stone lifting and much more. Coupled with Dominik's amazing and highly effective pull up and handwalking training strategies and his ideas about simplistic training outside in the nature, it was a very well-rounded schedule, guaranteed to satisfy every attendee's hopes. More over, Steve gave a few very interesting and extremely important theory lessons, covering topics like goal-setting, overtraining, regeneration and the significance of barefoot training.
Last but not least, Steve was very open to answer any questions we had and very willing to share his knowledge. Looking at him, it is quite easy to see that he is the real deal! At 58 years old, he possesses the body of a much, much younger man and has the mobility of a child. Everything he has reached was done through educating himself about different training methods and self-experimenting. He is not super-human and admitted that he made quite a few mistakes over the course of his training life and tried everything to educate and prevent us from doing the same. Maybe that's what I liked most about Steve's philosophy, he is not about boosting his ego with big lifts, actually he said that he couldn't care less about a heavy backsquat. It is all about health, longevity and being mobile. What can you do with all of your strength when your body has aches and pains all over and you can't move the way you want or were supposed to? Steve is the living proof that age is just an arbitrary and meaningless number if one approaches aging with intelligence and diligence.
Of course, this blog entry can't do justice to the whole seminar and it wasn't my aim to just write what we did and I hope that the pictures will give a much better impression of this truly unpaired experience and its amazing atmosphere. Nevertheless, if you want to read a more detailed schedule of the two days, please check out my friend Harry's awesome blogpost about the weekend.
Finally, I want to say THANK YOU to Steve and Dominik and of course to all the cool and hard training guys I met there! Nothing better than meeting like-minded people to share such an amazing experience!
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