Is strength coaching a trade, a profession, or something in between? Ashley Jones explores the divide between hands-on coaching experience and formal education, and explains why the best strength coaches need both craft and professional standards.

Ashley Jones breaks down the Neural Contrast Complex, a training method that combines heavy strength work, progressive plyometrics, explosive lifting, and reactive movement. Discover how this three-week system develops strength, power, and speed without sacrificing movement quality.

It was the IPA Worlds at the York Barbell Hall of Fame. My first meet after nine months off. I had taken the time to heal up, regroup, and push my bodyweight higher, and training had gone better than it had in years

Stop treating in-season rugby training like maintenance mode. Ashley Jones shows how the Conjugate System lets coaches rotate Max Effort, Dynamic Effort, hypertrophy, and conditioning emphasis so athletes keep building strength, speed, size, and work capacity without sacrificing match-day performance.

Tom Sheppard’s Strength Mastery event connects bracing, rooting, assessment, and the major lifts with hands-on coaching. See the lessons and November 12–13 agenda.

Ashley Jones breaks down why good periodization goes beyond spreadsheets and textbook models. Use the science to build the framework, then adjust for the athlete, the season, game-day demands, and the realities of coaching a squad.

Weeks out from hip surgery, I worked up to 600 with 400 pounds of chain, and my body had already told me not to.

Knowledge, intelligence, experience, wisdom, and bias are five different things, and confusing them is how good lifters end up taking advice from the wrong people.

Better performance starts with the same fundamentals that build a stronger, healthier body. Scott Hayes breaks down how nutrition, blood flow, hormones, hydration, sleep, stress, and recovery can influence sexual health, energy, and performance both in and out of the bedroom.

Strength in the weight room is only part of the equation. Former NFL offensive lineman Rees Odhiambo explains how offset loading, carries, sandbags, and reactive resistance can build strength that holds up under unpredictable force.

University of Toledo Director of Football Strength & Conditioning Evan Barr joins Dave Tate to discuss Olympic lifting for football, movement development, programming, deloading, competition, and what it takes to build stronger athletes and a better strength staff.

Training a young rugby player is about more than getting them stronger for next season. Ashley Jones lays out a long-term approach to youth development, from maturation and movement skills to strength training, recovery, testing, and building the habits that can support a player for years to come.