What if your strength could captivate, awe, and inspire?

This video series is your all-access pass to the underground world of real old-time strongman feats—bending steel, tearing phonebooks, breaking chains, lifting humans, and more. But it’s far more than just tricks. 

You’ll uncover the time-tested skills, training secrets, and performance techniques passed down from strongmen that have put these methods to the test, making careers from them.

Whether you want to perform on stage, impress your friends, build superhuman grip, or push your mental and physical limits, Feats of Strength: How to Train and Perform Like an Oldtime Strongman gives you the tools to do it. 

Across four in-depth videos, you'll explore foundational grip work, powerful showmanship tactics, real-time demonstrations, and practical training blueprints to develop strength that shows and sells.

Are you ready to command attention and make your strength undeniable?

Bud Jeffries was a world-record-holding strongman, Bud combined the raw power of a lifter with the precision of a martial artist and the soul of a showman. He squatted over 1,000 pounds, bent steel with ease, tore phonebooks by the stack, and performed incredible endurance feats—often all in the same session. 

But Bud wasn’t just about brute force. He was a deep thinker, a philosopher of strength, blending bodyweight calisthenics, mobility, old-time strongman methods, and spiritual purpose into a unified approach to training, with his classics like Twisted Conditioning 1 and 2 and more.

More than anything, Bud was a teacher. He devoted his life to helping others become stronger in every sense of the word—physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. In this video series, you’ll see Bud in his element: lifting, bending, performing, and teaching with intensity, humor, and wisdom. 

Logan Christopher is a modern-day strongman, performance coach, and herbal alchemist who has dedicated his life to unlocking human potential. Known for pulling an 8,800-pound firetruck by his hair and juggling flaming kettlebells, Logan blends the spectacular with the practical. 

He’s not just about flashy feats—he’s about building real, functional strength rooted in mastery of body, mind, and spirit regardless of size. (Note that he and Bud couldn’t have more different body types.) His work revives the forgotten wisdom of strongmen past and distills it into practical, actionable training for modern trainees.

In this video series, Logan shares not just technique, but strategy: how to train feats of strength for real-world performance, how to build resilience in the body and nervous system, and how to turn strength into a form of expression. 

This isn’t theory—it’s hands-on, action-packed, and tested in front of live audiences. Inside these four videos, you’ll get a complete breakdown of the most iconic feats of strength—from nail bending to phonebook tearing, chain breaking, card ripping, and beyond. 

You’ll learn the exact techniques, training progressions, performance tips, and safety precautions from two masters: Bud Jeffries and Logan Christopher.

Each video is packed with live demonstrations, expert instruction, and hard-won insights you won’t find anywhere else. Whether you're brand new to feats of strength or looking to refine your performance and presentation, these lessons will give you the edge you need to train smarter, perform better, and inspire more. Below is a detailed overview of what’s included in each volume.

• The big challenge of professional strongmen, making a clear communication of strength…or why bending a nail is more impressive than lifting 1000 lbs.
• Why you sometimes want to use easier feats than harder in shows
• Why these are party tricks worth acquiring
• Why grip strength is key. The four main types of grip training, and which two are most important for the would-be strongman. 

Short Bending

• Padding for the hands. What to use and what not to…including the best tip from Grandmaster Strongman Dennis Rogers.
• How to wrap nails. The difference between training and shows.
• Three bending styles - Under, Over, and Reverse - And which may be right for you, depending on body type and size
• How to finish a nail
• Breathing technique for short bending
• Progressions including 40D nails, 60D nails, Grade 5 bolts, plus many more from galvanized, spiral, and more
• Hot rolled steel, cold rolled steel, and drill rods
• How there can be massive differences between nails
• Why a nail is better than a bolt for a show

Braced Bending

• Tips on shows, like what to say
• Tips on body type and leverage for braced bending
• Use of jeans, pads, and more. 
• How to torque the wrists
• How to use the entire body in the bend with jumping and sinking.
• Key difference between hot and cold-rolled steel
• Two methods for crushing after the initial bend
• Tips on band placement

Sledgehammers

• How radial and ulnar deviation used in sledgehammers applies directly to bending
• How to do the Nose Lever
• How to do the Floor Lever - If you get placement wrong, you will fail immediately
• Adding a person and humor to the show lift
• Fingerwalking the sledgehammer (for training, not for shows)

Long Bending (and Scrolling)

• How to get steel on the cheap (hint: it’s not at Home Depot)
• Balloon animals, but with steel
• Behind the neck bending
• Top of the head bending
• Braced hip bending
• Under the leg bending
• Arm wrestling bending
• How to trap the bar with one arm for better leverage
• Making the fish with foot bending
• Tips on repositioning throughout the bend
• Round steel vs flat steel
• How to use a towel for padding
   

Phonebook Tearing

• Why phonebooks is one of the best feats to get started with
• How ripping a phonebook is like starting a lawn mower
• Tips on angles of pull and how to grip
• What is the “S-Curve,” and how does it help?
• The popping method of ripping phonebooks - this is illegitimate, don’t do it
• What to do with tiny phonebooks or ones too big for you to tear
• Why Mike Bruce, one of the strongest people alive, failed miserably at phonebook tearing 

Card Tearing

• How to get a bunch of cards on the cheap
• Progressions on different types of cards from easier to more difficult
• These are the keys to hand and finger position.
• Avoid these things when tearing cards
• Two different styles of card - Twisting and Dennis Rogers or Papercutter Style
• Repositioning the thumb and hands as the tear starts
• Tips on training with cards, the right speed, and ease to go with

Chain Breaking

• Why jack chain is key, not welded or hardened chain
• Multiple methods of breaking chain, like bending steel, deadlift, one finger deadlift, neck lift, behind the back, and more
• Why the bicep flex may chain break may always have been fake
• How to do chest expansion chain breaks

Tug of War

• Why Bud uses specifically made handles for the one-handed grip tug of war in his shows
• How to make it funny for greater showmanship
• Why audience participation is key to a great show
• Why you need to be able to speak to do a show (how Dennis Rogers and Logan Christopher both started out with Toastmasters)
• Why Bud doesn’t believe in rote memorization

Unique Feats

• How to come up with unique feats of strength for yourself
• It’s not about stealing feats but combining them in novel ways
• Why your body type again matters for these feats of strength
• Bud’s Spinning Barbell with Human Weights Feat
• How coaching audience participation is critical
• Why massive visuals are best.
• How Logan’s pulling vehicles, including 8,800 lb. firetruck by his hair, came about
• Logan’s sledgehammer concrete break on top of loaded wrestler’s bridge
• Ending with a flourish

Final Words

• The stock feats vs. finding your own specialty
• Lifting people overhead (including how they lie about their weight)
• Single finger lifts
• A press release used to get promotion for “death-defying feats of strength” for a gym that had four different newspapers show up and publish articles
• How schools are a great venue for doing shows
• The importance of conditioning and breathing to a strongman show.
   

• How you can train two ways: 1) really hard, not very often, or 2) moderately hard, high volume, and why alternating these two strategies may be best
• Why being a regular performing strongman changes the paradigm in training
• Why mobility work or yoga help you recuperate from strongman training
• How people are going to challenge you…when you’re known as a strongman
• Hand-based feats and body-based feats
• Essentials for strongmen training (press, pull, squat, deadlift, grip)
• Why a shorter-range deadlift might be best
• How full range and partials makes the ideal
• When support tools like gloves have their place
• Open-handed finger strength using just weight plates
• How to practice feats of strength in between working out that replicates what you need for a strongman show
• Why explosive lifts are key for a would-be strongman
• Why Qi Gong work is useful for strength
• The best tools for overall wrist development, and how to build every angle of wrist strength
• How to combine oldtime strongman with modern strongman training
• How to combine basic strength, conditioning, and feats of strength altogether
• Three example workouts demonstrated
   

• Why you should pick one feat of strength to begin with
• How often should you train a feat of strength?
• How to focus on a single exercise at a time
• What a feats of strength day can look like
• Using biofeedback signals to guide your training
• Why feats of strength should be easy…and when it’s okay for them to be hard
• How speed is a very valid form of progression, especially for feats of strength
• How to prepare the hands with basic grip training
• Different open-hand and pinch grips, and various ways to train them
• Various tools and sources for useful grip and strongman training tools
• Splitting up feat of strength volume days and intensity days
• Demonstration of a short bending volume day
• Demonstration of a high-intensity short bending day
• How to toughen up the hands, necessary for feats of strength
• How to work the opposite side and various other styles than your preferred
• How bending goes well with deadlifts or squats
• Finding your weaknesses in a feat of strength…and how to target them
• How to incorporate isometrics into your feats of strength
• Demonstration of a braced bending workout
• Demonstration of a card tearing workout
• Tips on progressions and sets, and volume with card tearing
• Why quartering is essential when working on card tearing to help save the bank

Whether you want to perform in front of crowds, push your physical and mental limits, or simply build a kind of raw, functional power few ever experience, this video series delivers. You’ll not only master the technical skills behind classic feats of strength—you’ll also learn how to train them effectively, recover wisely, and present them with showmanship and confidence. 

If you’re serious about cultivating uncommon strength and standing out in a world of ordinary, this set belongs in your arsenal.