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

Building muscle takes more than a short block and a good pump. Dave Tate explains how to organize your calendar, weekly workload, exercise selection, effort, and progress checks around a real hypertrophy priority.

The goal is to become as strong as possible, for as long as possible, while accumulating the least amount of unnecessary damage along the way.

John Meadows built some of the smartest band training ever put on camera, and the Mountain Dog Band Pack gives you the exact nine bands to run seven of his workouts today.

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

Dave Tate reflects on Matt Dimel, his Westside years, and why growing older doesn't mean apologizing for the lifter you used to be.

Dave Tate on learning through a bombed meet, coaching real clients and building elitefts, then using those lessons and passing them on.

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.

A PR at 52 means one thing if you spent 30 years beating on your ceiling and something completely different if you spent those years doing nothing.

Most coaches have a toolbox overflowing with certifications, tech, and special exercises, while the basic tools sit untouched on the top shelf.

Most training advice you see online is one player on the field, described as if it were the whole game.

The same lifter who dismissed beat-up guys in his twenties is now selling his own injuries as credentials in his fifties, and both takes are wrong.

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.

Noah found an old elitefts camcorder in the back office, so we shot a week at S5 on it, and it reminded me what training harder really looks like.

Strength is something you can measure. A meet total. A one-rep max. A rep PR at a bodyweight you didn't have last year. It sits on paper. It shows up on a record board. You can prove it.

At sixteen I squatted 350 in a gym where everyone squatted 550 and one guy squatted 900, and that broken math taught me more about getting strong than any program ever did.

The honest truth about training that most coaches won't admit: it all comes down to the best educated guess for the specific person, on the specific day.