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The Strength Mastery Event is a two-day, hands-on coaching experience designed to help participants master the squat, deadlift, bench, and overhead press while learning foundational mechanics such as breathing, bracing, and foot rooting. Attendees work in a small-group setting to receive practical feedback and clear cues, ensuring they leave with improved positions and a training plan they can use immediately.

"God damn it, this place has some fucking voodoo magic on her or something, it feels so fucking good. I feel like I pulled 800 today."

Start your year off right with this free webinar on January 14th at 6:30 p.m. EST. 

Rooting, or grounding, stabilizes the body from the hip or pelvis down to the floor, whereas bracing stabilizes the structure from the pelvis up to the shoulder. Since they are interdependent, performing both rooting and bracing correctly is essential for creating a whole, rigid structure and achieving maximum strength and stability.

If I had to put a number on it, I've spent more than 50,000 hours inside a gym training, coaching, managing, or teaching. If you stack the time end to end, that's over six straight years. 

Jim Otto wasn’t tough because he got hurt—he was tough because he kept showing up anyway. What if that same mindset had today’s training, recovery, and medical support behind it—would the legend be any less, or just harder to break?

Discover how Zercher movements, including the Squat and Deadlift, can be seamlessly integrated into your training program to boost muscle growth and strength. This article evaluates the biomechanics, benefits, and proper execution of these variants to help you train safely and effectively.

"If you work shift work, if you're a first responder, if you're a nurse, if you're a new parent, there are things that you can be doing to improve the amount of sleep you're getting, to improve the quality of that sleep, to reduce that overall cortisol. You don't just have to suffer through it. It's not the cost of doing business, like I chose to do this job, and I made the choice to suffer for as long as I did before I found somebody who could help me write the ship."

So first off remember just because you're doing what is a lat exercise doesn't mean it's necessarily hitting your lats very well. And then also you have the ability to take a certain exercise and bias it towards whatever your goal is very very easily by just adjusting the grip width how you put pressure on your hands and ultimately change that upper arm angle relative to your body.

Shaun Kopplin's life pivoted around 2014 when powerlifting became a crucial path, helping him focus and deal with the grief following his brother's death after he had struggled with criminal activity and drug addiction. After time in solitary confinement, he focused on lifting weights to maintain a trajectory that kept him out of prison, eventually founding Wolfpack Barbell and Cream City Clothing.

The longer we're spending in that stretch position actively lengthening and relaxing those target muscles we are going to be spending more and more time in a lengthened position but also getting further into that stretch position which is going to leave us more mobile than when we started. Now these are going to be more effective for mobility than traditional static stretches as well because we have the external load helping us.

A 385-pound preacher once used a 1,000-pound squat to illustrate life, faith, and teamwork. His message was simple: you can take on a heavier weight when your family, friends, and purpose are solid, because nobody moves their biggest load alone.