Can our favorite StrongFirst Girya drills be done with dumbbells?—You bet! Many old-time strongmen trained with kettlebells, barbells, and dumbbells—the “father of heavy athletics” von Krajewski and his students; Lebedev, Poddubny, “Russian Lion” Hackenschmidt; Sandow, Saxon, Inch, Klein, Goerner, and many others. The last name on that list, “Goerner the Mighty,” was a German strongman celebrated for extraordinary all-around strength, who performed “approximately 1,400 different feats of strength of all varieties.” That said, his training program was principle-based—intuitive, but not complicated. Most of the time, he started with a simple template—a kettlebell and dumbbell “Chain”... To read the article, CLICK HERE. | 
