What is Your Training Philosophy?

What's up strength seekers?

Let me open this with a quick intro of who I am and how I got linked up with the Barbell Strength Sports mastermind, Coach Sean Murphy.

My name is Charles Tankersley, but most people call me Tank. I was a Texas boy for the first 22 years of my life. After graduating from Texas A&M University, I took a government with job with the Department of Defense that took me to Washington DC, overseas to Iraq among other "friendly" places, and ultimately to Central Virginia where I now reside.

I was always an athlete and started to really pound the weights in my early twenties. After years of training myself and helping others, I studied and picked up a few certifications, and trained in a lot of gyms. It didn't take long for me to figure out that to reach my true potential and to train the way I wanted to train, I needed to branch off on my own.

I founded Primal Strength Camp LLC, my online community, and ultimately opened the Primal Strength Gym located in Charlottesville, Virginia. Primal is a performance based facility where everyone is serious about their training, and most importantly getting stronger. We have Strongman competitors, powerlifters, semi-pro athletes, desk jockies, and stay at home moms. Despite our various crafts, we are all united in strength and our burning desire to be ass-kickers.

I myself compete in Strongman, and that's how I had the privilege to meet both Coach Murphy and Nate Schwartz. We all met at the River City Strongman competition in Richmond, VA in 2015. We all competed together that day, had a hell of a time, and have stayed in touch ever since. And now, despite our separation in distance, we are united in this Barbell Strength Sports page. Through the sport of Strongman and lifting (and social media), I also had the privilege to meet Chad Clark, another contributor here that I can always strike up a conversation with, especially reminiscing about the "strength days of old".

Which is what leads me to the post that I'm ultimately going to link at the bottom of this post. You see, Nate, Coach Murphy, Chad, myself; we all have different backgrounds and we all dabble in different things ranging from the Highland Games, to Crossfit, to cross-training, to Strongman. If you follow our Facebook page (Barbell Strength Sports), you'll see that we are always posting from a plethora of different perspectives. You will also see it as each of us posts new blogs here.

While I may have a Strongman background and my training philosophy is very specific, you better believe I can learn and adapt things from what guys like Nate, Sean, and Chad do. As strength seekers, this is what we should all be doing. Too often in today's society, we are quick to write off other people and justify it because "it doesn't fit what I do".

Well, I gotta tell you, Coach Sean Murphy put this site together because we all know this can be an awesome resource and a way for everyone, despite our specialties, to gain and share knowledge, and ultimately improve our end game.

So what is my training philosophy? Do you know yours?

What is Your Training Philosophy?

All the best,

-- Tank