Jacob DeRossett
Level 4 Valued Member
I've been dabbling with steel club training for a little over a year now. I've only done one serious program and that was from Mark Wildman:
Two hand club shield cast
Two hand club inside circle
Two hand club outside circle
5x5 + 1 set each session until you get to 20x5
I did this program as my recovery day while I was doing "simple strength for difficult times." and it worked well, pretty boring and hard to count but good.
Since then I've achieved timed simple and gotten my SFG l, so I haven't had time to train with the club. Now the question I've been wondering is. "If we were to decide on a program minimum for club what would it be?"
I've looked into Mark Wildman extensively and glanced at coach vaughn, TacFit and Alberto Gallazzi. Mark WildMan explains that the Mill and Reverse mill are the goal to single arm club training, which makes sense, but are those the only two things that should be trained with the club when they are achieved? Also, his methods do not coincide with StrongFirst principles exactly. I understand that you wouldn't use steel clubs to get StrongFirst, but if we were to apply StrongFirst principles to the club, what would that look like? Or is that even worth attempting? Again I'm novice in this world but I'm largely not satisfied with the approaches I've studied, they aren't "simple" enough for me.
I've been mulling this over for a few weeks and need some help deciphering, if we can piece something together on here I will gladly do the testing on myself!
Two hand club shield cast
Two hand club inside circle
Two hand club outside circle
5x5 + 1 set each session until you get to 20x5
I did this program as my recovery day while I was doing "simple strength for difficult times." and it worked well, pretty boring and hard to count but good.
Since then I've achieved timed simple and gotten my SFG l, so I haven't had time to train with the club. Now the question I've been wondering is. "If we were to decide on a program minimum for club what would it be?"
I've looked into Mark Wildman extensively and glanced at coach vaughn, TacFit and Alberto Gallazzi. Mark WildMan explains that the Mill and Reverse mill are the goal to single arm club training, which makes sense, but are those the only two things that should be trained with the club when they are achieved? Also, his methods do not coincide with StrongFirst principles exactly. I understand that you wouldn't use steel clubs to get StrongFirst, but if we were to apply StrongFirst principles to the club, what would that look like? Or is that even worth attempting? Again I'm novice in this world but I'm largely not satisfied with the approaches I've studied, they aren't "simple" enough for me.
I've been mulling this over for a few weeks and need some help deciphering, if we can piece something together on here I will gladly do the testing on myself!