Breaking down the Conjugate System and simple as I can.

What does it mean to go all in? Is there a point where you've gone too far down the rabbit hole of all in? Clint Darden and Dave Tate attempt to answer these questions with their different perspectives.

The key here is to press into and up the rack - Stripping The Rack. These are great for overhead presses, hack squats, bench presses, close grip benches (all from different angles).

It’s back to the drawing board for Dave Tate — specifically the drawing board for explaining how to set up a conjugate method training program.

Think about all of the things you would never miss a training session for, and then think of all of the things you missed with your family due to those sessions. Those memories you missed out on are only a fraction of the pitfalls you'll face in powerlifting.

Another brutal session from 2015. Training Location @elitefts s4. This one didn't end so well.

In 2016 elitefts Team Member Christian Anto brought a small group of lifters he was working - training with to elitefts and asked me to take a look at their squats. This is how it went.

Excerpt from a seminar I did almost 10 years ago and it all stands true today.

This is when things started to get hard... and just progressed harder from here. This was a hellish session. This training session began with...

Looking for the next Q and A or AMA? Look no more. Here are the Instagram AMA schedule from #teamelitefts

If I could go back and do it over, what would I do differently?

Dave Tate and Justin Harris reflect on how they first met and a handful of the adventures they shared during Dave's post-powerlifting retirement diet.

Movement is all in vogue these days, but let’s not forget the importance of muscle awareness. ⁣

⁣Your true value as a person has nothing to do with commerce. ⁣

If ANYONE said to them what they say to themselves they would NEVER PUT UP WITH IT! Yet, when they do it to themselves, it’s OK. ⁣

I don’t believe I’ve ever written what I was doing when the Towers came down eighteen years ago. ⁣

Video: Watch around the 3:10 mark when Chuck does the back attack. That's 5 plates and a ton of band tension.

Never Forget

Powerlifting is like following the Yellow Brick Road

As you will see everyone needs to be coached a little differently.

He told me he didn’t care if I voice recorded it, wrote it on a napkin, or just called him on the phone. He would help get me get it out. ⁣

Business, Some Training, Education and Life

We had to get out of s3 because the propane heat bill was no joke. Between the rent, heat and the grass cutting, it was very poor research on my part and we had to make a change.

Joe Sullivan says the movements he uses to keep his adductors health are "the bomb." Want to find out what those explosive movements are? Read on to find out.