Training Blog: Testing

As I stated in my last post, if my upcoming workout went well for squats I was planning to test the following week. Luckily for me it went well, the 3x3 on squats with 315 (a 20 lb increase from the week prior) went great and i even hit a single with 345 prior and it also moved well!
So following this heavy training day I deloaded the following two squat and bench sessions and planned to see where my lifts were at this point in my training. With a solid cycle of squats under my belt and the...

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Training Blog: Update...

Where have I been? What has been going on?

                  I will start by saying, altogether this year has been a struggle up to this point. I have been at least partially sick since the end of 2017, up until the past two weeks maybe. So with that said, after trying to push through the sickness for almost two months I decided I just needed to stop this cycle. Therefore, my training has been taken down a few notches and isn’t what I would classify as very interesting. That is why I...

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Training Blog: Week 1 | INTRO

INTRO:

First off let me do a short introduction of myself, I am Ben Wagoner, the founder and head coach of Animus Athletics. I am a graduate of the University of Georgia, with a Degree in Sport management, currently working as a health and wellness coach. I began coaching and programming in early 2016, after many trials and errors doing so for myself over the years. Spending countless hours researching different approaches and then figuring out which I found to work best in practice. It is my goal to provide the best programming and coaching I possibly...

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