It shouldn’t be too much of a secret if you’ve looked at this site for even a few seconds that the focus of this site is strength training for wrestling. In addition, the mission for this blog is to provide a platform where wrestlers of all ages and abilities can go to read about and share their experiences in regards to strength training for wrestling.
I came to the decision to start this blog a few months ago when I was searching Google for various terms such as strength training for wrestling, weight training for wrestling, wrestling workouts, and other similar terms.
As you can imagine, I was pretty surprised by the lack of information out there. I mean, a few articles here and there (many of which I’ve written so no new information for me there!), a link to a forum every now and again, and links to my Wrestler Strength System.
For a sport that I foresee growing with the growth of Mixed Martial Arts and the UFC, I was really unimpressed by what was out there. I got to thinking one night while I was falling asleep with the usual pile of two Miniture Pinchers and a Chihuahua laying next to me and decided that I would start working on a blog specifically for wrestlers looking for wrestling workout information.
Inspired by the success of my past clients, I got to work the very next day, and have been working on it daily ever since! Speaking of wrestlers I’ve worked with, check out this interview with NCAA Champion, Troy Nickerson after he won his title!
Strength Training For Wrestling Success Interviews
And here’s another great interview with 2010 Champ, Harvard’s J.P. O’Connor, (my first one on one client after I graduated college):
Strength Training For Wrestling- The Focuses
1. The #1 focus of this site is to provide you with the best information possible in regards to strength training for wrestling.
Did you know that there are strength coaches out there with books published on strength training for wrestling who have never wrestled?
How can you possibly understand what it takes to be a successful wrestler if you’ve never even stepped on the mat?
It boggles my mind that there are people like this out there, but when your primary objective is making money instead of providing unbelievable information on serious strength training for wrestling, then mission accomplished, I guess.
While I wasn’t the best wrestler in the world, I have some decent accomplishments to my name including a 3 time STAC League Champ, 3 time NYSPHSAA Section 4 Finalist, a Junior Freestyle All-American, and a couple of Junior Northeast Regional and NYS Freestyle and Greco State Championships.
I know what it’s like to go through a wrestling season and all of the ups and downs associated with it. I also know what it takes to get wrestlers stronger and more powerful, both in and out of season (if the later even exists!).
2. The 2nd major focus of Wrestler-Power.com is kind of an offshoot from the first one and that is to provide you with strength training for wrestling information that you can actually use!
Believe me when I say this, I think that tire flips, keg exercises, sandbag lifts, kettlebells, Strongman exercises, and sleds and Prowlers are great ways to build super effective functional strength for wrestling.
In fact, I’m such a believer in this style of training that I’ve put together an entire system (Strength Training For Wrestling) that goes into how to use all of these different pieces of “hardcore” equipment, where to find/how to make them, how they can benefit your performance on the mat, etc.
But the fact of the matter is this- no matter how effective this style of strength training for wrestling is and no matter how cool it looks in YouTube videos and in pictures, unless you train at a well-equipped hardcore gym or have room at your house to store the equipment you make, you’re oftentimes not going to have access to a lot of these pieces of equipment.
Additionally, as great as this type of training is, I think there’s something to say to the fact that traditional barbell and dumbbell movements are still the core of the strength and conditioning program for wrestlers at nearly every top college or university.
In fact, while you’re here, take a break and watch these two videos.
Pay close attention to not only what the strength coach is saying in the first video, but also check out his ears! Do you think that man knows a thing or two about wrestling?!
Check out the first 6 or so minutes of the second video to see more traditional, heavy strength training for wrestling in addition to some Log Clean and Presses (my personal favorite for developing power for wrestling).
Strength Training For Wrestling Videos:
Who Are We?
We are wrestlers who are looking for the new way to get the edge on the mat.
We have experienced heartbreaking defeat and know what it’s like to come so close to our goals just to have them slip between our fingers.
We are tired of having to search for workouts in the latest bodybuilding magazines and want workouts specifically geared for wrestlers.
We are tired of being provided strength training workouts by “strength” coaches who look like they couldn’t bench press their way out of a wet paper bag.
We are fed up with being told lies about how if you strength train you’ll just end up bulky and slow like all the bodybuilders.
If that were true, do you think there would be strength coaches at competitive high schools, all major colleges and universities, and for the wrestlers who train at the OTC?!?! I wouldn’t be here writing this today if that were true.
All in all we’re tired of poor performances knowing that we can do better.
It’s time for a community to develop where wrestlers can go to learn about strength training for wrestling and share their wrestling workout tips. It’s time for a tribe of serious wrestlers looking for hardcore strength training to come together.
Proper strength training for wrestling can have you winning big matches like Troy did in the NCAA Finals.
The Future
In the months and years to come this site will become the #1 source for all information regarding strength training for wrestling and wrestling workout programs.
It will be the platform for wrestlers at all levels to gain knowledge on strength training for wrestling as well as share their strength training tips in an effort to better USA Wrestling as a whole.
I know a lot of you may be nervous to share your strength training secrets, but believe me, it will only get you better.
For example, I’m always cheering people on to get stronger in my gym. Why? Because I know if they get stronger I will get stronger because I have to be one of the strongest guys in my gym. I can’t lose ground to my training partners because of how competitive I am.
It’s that competitive spirit that I learned from the great sport of wrestling that pushes me to improve myself and the information I provide every day. Similarly, they’re always trying to separate themselves from me.
It’s a constant battle to be the best in my gym just like it is on the mat.
It’s a constant push to separate yourself from your opponents and while you may not think it’s in your best interest to potentially improve your competition by sharing your workout ideas, it will do nothing but better you through your strength training for wrestling in the long run.
