Meauxtion

03/10/2026

The Turkish Get-Up is usually treated like a single exercise. I treat it like a movement hub.

First I train movements like Cossack squats, kettlebell sn**ches, lunges, swings, and overhead presses in isolation to build strength and control.

Then I start stacking those movements inside the Turkish Get-Up.

Instead of simply standing up, I might lower the kettlebell down to the front rack position and use a Cossack squat to stand up.

On the way back down, I use different transitions like reverse lunges or overhead squats.

The goal isn’t to make the movement fancy. The goal is integration.

Isolation builds the parts.

Movement stacking proves the parts work together.

Train the pieces, then connect them.

03/08/2026

When I want to improvise and move, I reach for my kettlebells and Turkish get-ups.

Once I’m in a standing position, anything goes.

Whatever I do on one side, I try to mirror it on the other.

Gym work is almost always preplanned (as it should be) and follows a recipe.

It’s been extremely refreshing over the last decade to include workouts where I make it up as I go.

03/01/2026

Macebell 360 swings aren’t a max strength or muscle-building exercise — but that doesn’t mean they’re useless.

Used correctly, macebell 360s can improve shoulder movement quality, coordination, rhythm, grip strength, and controlled rotational patterning.

I use macebells 3 to 4 times per week in workouts, but not as the main meal.

Sometimes I’ll do longer work sets with high repetitions, and sometimes I’m looking for shorter bursts inside of warm-ups before compound resistance training.

The big message here is to understand what they will and won’t do for you.

Unique-shaped gym tools offer opportunities for unique exercises and training stimuli. I think about macebells in the same way that I thought about kettlebells back when they were introduced in the mid-2000s.

02/28/2026

built my new favorite piece of equipment, The Adonis.

I'll never even get close to maxing out this thing's weight capacity.

Hybrid exercise pulling exercise here.

Odd stance and a hybrid pulling angle, not quite vertical and not quite horizontal.

With nothing holding me down, I’m limited in weight for this exercise by what doesn’t pull me off the floor.

Another 5-10lbs and I'm exceeding my bodyweight and therefore my ability to do this exercise at all.

Went to technical failure.

02/04/2026

Single arm kettlebell sn**ch, pulling from the floor.

Doing my best to improve power. I really like this move.

01/26/2026

I taught myself how to use kettlebells—sn**ches, swings, cleans, slingshots, Turkish get-ups, and beyond.

I don’t exclusively use kettlebells, but man, they make a ton of sense for my time, goals, etc.

One simple bell, one focused session, repeated.

When I didn't have a home gym to train, it didn't matter.

Kettlebells delivered the same training effect no matter what room I was in, inside or outside, traveling or at home.

Progress is rarely dramatic in the moment.

It shows up quietly, from putting in work day after day.

Small, repeatable habits.

01/24/2026

I do a lot of stuff in the gym. I keep it fresh, but I never lose sight of the foundational exercises that need attention.

One of the wisest things I did many years ago was commit to more upper-body pulling exercises.

Rows aren’t sexy, but they’re part of a well-balanced program and help to keep my body balanced.

Inverted rows, not shown here, is one of my all-time favorite pulling exercises.

01/22/2026

A recent YouTube video upload showing a combo exercise really got the keyboard jockeys fired up, so I thought I'd double down and share another.

01/19/2026

Rear fluid elevated single-leg squat combined with a horizontal cable row.

Emphasis on torso rotation, hard pull, and timing the lockout of the squat with the pull.

Not bad.

Moves like this don’t maximize any of the individual exercises, but they can be fun and challenging to slip into a workout to switch things up a little bit.

I added resistance bands to the Adonis cable stack so I could pull with velocity.

01/15/2026

I’m 3 weeks into owning the .co Hyper Pro, and I couldn't be happier.

I’ve seen a lot of equipment over the years promise multi-use (do this and do that), only to fall short on all functions.

“11 machines in 1”. 😬

Freak Athlete got this right.

This clip shows the conversion 45 degree back extension position into the set up for rear foot elevated split squats.

This isn’t a the most dramatic transformation of the Hyper Pro, but for a home gym owner, it’s brilliant.

Well-built, thoughtfully designed home gym equipment is the best.

Obviously, I’m also a fan of adjustable dumbbells for the home gym

01/13/2026