Cratos Training

Boredom. It happens to all of us. It happens in all areas of our lives. It happens at work and at home, but one area we need to make sure it doesn’t happen at is the gym. If you’ve been going through the same monotonous routine day in and day out and feel like you are no longer making strides towards your goals you have two options: either take a break from your workouts, only to come back a week or two later and be bored again a month after that, or you can keep reading.

Step in Cratos Training. There have been many similar training methods developed, but none as complexly simple, and none as effective, as Cratos Training. Cross-fit and Caveman workouts are great, but you can only put a rat in a ball and watch it run around so many times until it says, “Forget this.” Not only do you need to create an environment with unique and challenging exercises, but you also need to be able to work the body in multiple ways, and not just from a biomechanical standpoint.

ratos Training developed, ironically enough, out of boredom, plain and simple. I was bored with the power-development day of my strength-training program. I needed something new, something fun, something that was a completely different challenge from any other that I had faced. Then I had an epiphany, and all it needed was a name. There was some thought about just continuing the Caveman trend, but there was a lot of apprehension as well. This training was different, and it needed to be recognized as such. It was then that I looked to the Greeks for help, and they undoubtedly delivered. Cratos, the Greek god of power and the personification of strength, would lead the title of my new training.

The beauty of Cratos Training is that it trains everything—every major muscle group, every plane of motion, every energy system. It trains speed and acceleration, explosiveness, power, strength, and endurance. It works all of the muscles you see in the mirror, as well as the ones you didn’t even know you had. The reps are limited so the sets are short, but the rest times are short as well so by the end you won’t be starting a set in complete recovery. It is a hybrid of traditional strength training and functional-movement training. It is malleable and fluid so as to prevent peaking and boredom. It is strength. It is power. It is speed. It is explosiveness. It is Cratos Training, and it is a workout like you’ve never had before.

Get big or die tryin’.

Charlie Cates

Self Made, Owner

Charlie Cates is a human performance specialist and the owner of Self Made (http://selfmadefitness.com), as well as a Certified Personal Trainer and Performance Enhancement Specialist through NASM. He has worked with athletes of all ages and ability levels, from 9-year-old kids to NFL MVP's. He can be reached via e-mail at charlie@selfmadefitness.com.

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