How to Add to the EASY STRENGTH Protocol | Dan John

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Dan John has spent his life with one foot in the world of lifting and throwing, and the other foot in academia. An All-American discus thrower, Dan has also competed at the highest levels of Olympic lifting, Highland Games and the Weight Pentathlon, an event in which he holds the American record.

Dan spends his work life blending weekly strength training workshops and lectures with full-time writing, and is also an online religious studies instructor for Columbia College of Missouri. As a Fulbright Scholar, he toured the Middle East exploring the foundations of religious education systems. Dan is also a Senior Lecturer for St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London.

His books, on weightlifting, include Intervention, Never Let Go, Mass Made Simple and Easy Strength, written with Pavel Tsatsouline as well as From Dad, To Grad. He and Josh Hillis co-authored “Fat Loss Happens on Monday.”

Dan is one of the original practitioners of the "Kettlebell Swing" in the US and is widely renowned to be the inventor of the "Kettlebell Goblet Squat". He is the host of the weekly Dan John Podcast; discussing all things strength, kettlebells, Olympic weightlifting and athletic performance as well as doing live workshops, coaching and online personal training.

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[chrisharvey]

Thanks for the reminder of the "why" behind Easy Strength. Love it...

[deo.strengthspan.project]

A golden nugget here I just feel compelled to highlight: Easy Strength is to “teach you that this quality called strength can be achieved in a reasonably short amount of time to support your other goals.”

To me this is the beauty and value of Easy Strength. Realizing that strength can be achieved this way has been so powerful for me and I’m sure has been for many others. The realization that we don’t need to practically live in the gym and we don’t need to work ourselves to exhaustion in training to achieve strength to support health, longevity, and other activities we’re interested in is a wonderful thing.

[reaccionapr]

Thank you for continuing to provide us gentle listeners with content even while on the road.

Some trivia:
On an interview I saw recently, Dorian
Yates now does 300 swings as his conditioning workout

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[Robert-xkpm]

Just a comment. I did one lift a day a couple years ago it worked very well. I recently started easy strength doing bench, back squat and deadlift plus swings and hangs. My numbers shot up and I am now at the same level I was at before my almost two year lay off. After reaching these number on workout 19 it seemed to get much harder and the workouts taking much longer. Dropped 20% and gonna take another run at it for 20 more days.

[thamecerulian]

Hi Dan I am going into in season wrestling and was wondering if an easy strength program of snatch, clean and press, fat grip deadlift, pull up, and ab wheel.
Five days a week would be reasonable. I can snatch body weight and almost clean and press it and my fat grip deadlift would be about the same so I would like to bring these lifts up. Would this be reasonable for the next 40 workouts?

[gm]

Dan, I was wondering on your opinion of this workout I'm doing with easy strength numbers,
Snatch
Singular Clean+Front Squats
Push Press
Weighted Pull Up

I'd then follow this up with going to cycle for a few hours as a bike courier. Then maybe do about 100 kettlebell swings or less than later on in the day with some kettlbell carrys and maybe a bit of jump rope every now and then.

Any advice would be appreciated.

[zacharyhui]

Hi john,
I am a muay thai fighter and I wonder if I could use easy strength for 40 days in the morning and do squats, shrugs and neck curls 3 days a week at night. I have to do the latter for neck training and to develop my quads (i have neglected them for too long).

Is this an effective program?

[jrtje]

Hi Dan,
I'm lifting twice a week doing Kb Press, Power cleans and Pull ups on day 1 and Front squats and dips on day 2. Every day I finish with a loaded carry. So its like 2 full body days a week. I wonder if there is any benefit in moving the Power clean to day 2 and the Dips to day 1. This turn is more into a Upper/Lower focus each day.  
I can't really find the answer in the omnibook. I can imagine both options have pro's and con's.
I'd love to hear your opinion on this.

[jonatanolsen]

Hey.
What do you think about doing a 20 day easy strength, then switching excercises?
My thought is that i would do it like this:
Round 1:
3x3 squat, bench, power clean
3x10 lu raise, leg curl, biceps

Round 2:
3x3 Deadlift, press, chins
3x10 split squat, facepull, tricep

[crayzmarc]

Looks like your in a hotel.I like in Wimbledon.