What To Look For In A Personal Trainer
Finding a great personal trainer can be challenging. Here’s our recommendation on how to find the best personal trainer in your area.
18 Exercises You Can Do With Only A Chair
Use these creative exercises to upgrade your workouts at home, with only a chair.
8 Exercises To Be A Better Athlete
Use these eight exercises to increase your athleticism and performance.
The Truth About Kids and Lifting Weights
The Truth About Kids and Lifting Weights Here at Terre Haute Intensity Resistance and Sports Training (THIRST) our primary audience and clientele is working with youth athletics in the sports performance realm. It’s not uncommon that we get various questions from parents and members about how safe lifting is for children, what kind of approach…
NEWS: Lauren Kirchner Commits To Butler University
Recently, Sports Performance Athlete, Lauren Kirchner, committed to continue her education and swimming career at Butler University. Lauren is currently a senior at Terre Haute South Vigo High School, and swims short distance, primarily 50-100 meter races for the Braves. In 2020, she will continue her talents with the prestigious Dawgs of Butler. We’re incredibly…
CrossFit For Sports Performance?
CrossFit For Sports Performance? When it comes to improving athletic performance, there isn’t exactly a perfect way to do. Sit ten strength coaches down in a room, and you’ll get ten different training programs for one specific athlete. That’s one of the great things about sports performance training…that so many options are available. However, we…
NEWS: THIRST Gym Raises $700 For Breast Cancer
On October 5th, 2019, THIRST gym hosted their annual Bench For Boobs fundraiser. This fundraiser is a friendly, local bench press competition held in Terre Haute, Indiana where all the proceeds go to a local charity, PINK of Terre Haute. The competition had 14 competitors from various places across Indiana, and was sponsored by Elitefts,…
RPS Braggin’ Rights Powerlifting Meet
We’re happy to announce that registration for THIRST’s annual powerlifting meet with Iron Mafia/Four Brothers Gym is now live! This powerlifting meet is sanctioned through the RPS, and offers full power, bench only, deadlift only, bench and deadlift, and various options of equipment and entries. The competition is being held on January 25, 2020 at…
THIRST Week In Review – July 22, 2019
As we’re closing in on another week of summer, we had an amazing week of training from everyone. Many of our fall athletes are preparing for an amazing season, and they’ve been training hard all summer long. Personal training clients have been putting in their share of hard work as well, and making the most…
Week 1 Day 3
A1) Speed Bench Press vs Doubled Mini Bands – 40%x10x3 (115 vs red EliteFts mini bands) B1) Close Grip Spoto Press vs Doubled Mini Bands – Work Up to a 10RM (105) C1) Incline DB Bench Press – 3×15-20 D1) Wide Grip Pull Ups – 3 sets, max reps E1) Deadstop T-Bar Rows – 3×10…