Evidence-Based Practice: Are You Really Ahead of the Curve?
With the same irony that Botox and liposuction clinics have absorbed the words “health” and “wellness,” the evidence-based approach has become a marketing buzzword to try to signal to the public that you are “cutting edge”. Are you all hype or really ahead of the curve?
Vote for the Best 2019 Christmas List
With your vote, a fellow meathead will be just a click away from fulfilling their wildest iron dreams this holiday season... Choose wisely.
Top 5 Recovery Tools From elitefts
Want to prevent injury by building a bulletproof back? Have achy elbows and knees? Suffering from a low-grade strain?
12 Gifts for the Whole Family
Move over, Oprah's Favorite Things — these are the hottest and strongest gifts of the season, all in a one-stop-shopping guide.
Run a Successful High School Strongman Contest with This Christmas List
If Santa and his reindeer deliver these items, you’re guaranteed to have a great Christmas and an amazing strongman contest at your school!
The Gifts of Manhood to Make Those Jingle-Balls Drop
Do you know a poor dude whose testicles really need to drop this holiday season? This selection of gifts has been proven to raise testosterone levels by as much as 1,849 percent!
5 Items for a Fatter Christm-ass Than Last Year
While your keto-obsessed cousin and diabetic grandmother stress over their diet decisions and stay away from the dessert tray, go all in. Make Christmas count this year.
5 Gifts for the Legacy Lifter
This list is for the aged, the battered, and the arthritic lifter you love. Let's face it, he or she will always train, so help ease their pain.
Gifts for the New Class of Annoying Gym Members
Members in smaller training facilities are like family, and what says family more than giving a gift to someone you can't stand?
Squatting from Womb to Tomb: Why You Must Train 'Til You Die
I'm aging, my parents are aging, and yes, you're aging too. Aging equals disease. Or does it? In this article, I will introduce explanations about the role of strength and conditioning in healthy living and suggest how we can promote that before disuse and decay unleash their vicious cycle.
5 Items That'll Transform Your Dad Bod Into a Beach Bod
The term “dad bod” was tossed my direction more often than I could count when I found out I was going to be a dad, and I was certain that I wasn’t going to fall into this physique and let my lifestyle slip because of any children. These items will ensure that I have a beach bod, not a dad bod.
5 Gifts for the Ultimate Powerlifting Garage Gym
I am here to tell you if these are on your Christmas list and you get all these items, then you will be on track for a massive total and some of the best training of your life. I cannot recommend all of these pieces enough.
7 Items That'll Make You a MILF
Use these items 20 minutes a day, every day, and you'll be a MILF in no time.
7 Gifts for New Dads
Let's be honest: Moms do most of the work at first with babies. That means us dads need to make sure that we're in the best shape to help our strong, badass wives with the newest addition of the family, and this wishlist will kick our dad bods back into shape.
Editor's Letter for December
Happy holidays from elitefts! We've stuffed your stockings with more content to get you closer to your strength, hypertrophy, and power goals — performance in bodybuilding, powerlifting, weightlifting, and strongman. All you have to do is rip the wrapping!
5 Things Every Small Garage Gym Owner Should Have
Your training space is a one-car stall garage, and you want quality equipment at a decent price. Does this sound like you? Great, say no more. Every small garage gym owner should have these five things for endless training possibilities and year-round gains.
How to Choose the Right Christmas Gift
A short Christmas gift guide for different types of strong people (including yourself).
5 Gifts for the Friend on Santa's Naughty List
Bad news: Your buddy is on the Naughty List. The only thing he deserves for the holidays is a kick in the ass to get back into the gym. Good news: You take the high road and give him the gift of training with you next year with some nice incentives.
Express Gratitude This Thanksgiving
We all have things that we are grateful for. You won’t know it, though, because it isn’t posted on social media or the headline of the e-blast you are about to receive. Likely, it’s a culmination of little things that collectively bring happiness to our daily lives.
5 Essential Items That'll Keep You Warmed Up Without Doing Warm-Ups
It’s winter, it’s cold, and Dave says fuck warm-ups. With these items, you'll stay warmer than you've ever been, in and out of the gym.
5 Christmas Gifts for a Crazy Strongman Hermit Who Lives in the Woods
Now that I’m out in the middle of nowhere, I’m looking forward to beginning my descent into hermitude and madness as I train alone. Picture Jack Nicholson’s character in "The Shining" except more swole because of these 5 items.
Two Lifters, One Ultimate Holiday Shopping List
If you have gym friends with different focuses, no worries! The gifts on this shopping list are sure to please both of your powerlifting pals, regardless of their goals, focus, or social media presence.
The Cycle of Detraining and Retraining
This is a completely different type of article you'll find within my column. It's personal and it makes a case for increased injury burden as an athlete progresses in their career, gets older, trains more, competes more, the list goes on...
5 Gifts for the Garage Gym of Your Dreams
Having a garage gym has been my dream since 1999. Now I’m going on my 10th year in my second marriage with two kids and working as a part-time Mr. Mom and a part-time gas utility worker in Northern California. That dream is slowly becoming a reality, and the items on this list will help speed things up.