If you're training under a Conjugate System, variation is your key to success. Let's talk about the two acute variables that you should use to your advantage: exercise variation and equipment selection.

For strongmen, the deadlift is many times just a a tool, not a factor itself. Your routine should reflect this.

When should the athletes lift? Where is the total training volume based from? How is intensity individualized within a team setting?

Your off-season was a huge success. Your athletes gained strength, size, and speed. Here's the challenge: maintain.

You’re sick of spinning your wheels. Trust me, I get it. I’ve been there. Here's how to stop being timid and weak.

You've been away from the gym, but now you're back. With some intelligent programming you can resume training in such a way that you’ll be blowing through your old numbers without ever getting stuck.

A disc injury is not a death sentence. You now need to develop into a smarter lifter who is not only focused on PR’s but also on long term health.

Knowing how to implement proper periodization will set you free from being slave to rigid programs and pre-written training plans.

The most valuable information you will find from testing your athletes is not a measurement of height.

The style of your coaching and the content of your program say a lot about you as a coach. If someone questions your approach, do you have an answer?

If you follow the guidelines of your program without understanding the reasons for the methods, you're missing two things that will make or break your progress: individuality and specificity.

A proper weight room strategy provides adequate attention to the development of strength and size — two qualities necessary for your team's improvement.

Your athletes are not powerlifters. Programming them as if they are will not lead to stronger, faster competitive performance.

Before making the assumption that all women have wide hips and should therefore squat wide and deadlift sumo, consider these other factors that will inform good technique.

The first thing that you need to do is decide on what your limiting factors are: time, equipment, physical abilities, skill, and audience.

We've utilized Mann's method with great results as written and with a few tweaks — breaking up the fourth set is just what our basketball players needed to bust through their strength plateau.

When new athletes come into your program you don't know their abilities, training history, or technical proficiency. This is a crucial part of your program: preparing your athletes for their sport.

Using this three-step approach, strengthen, motivate and challenge a team to excel in the sport of football.

Trends dominate the personal training industry. Rely on self-education to determine the difference between what sounds good and what IS good.

The bench press is typically the weakest lift for women. It's no mystery why—they require a targeted approach.

“I feel a need, a need for speed,” as the famous quote from Top Gun goes. The old coaching question “how can I make my team faster,” which is answered...

The emphasis is always on the athletes, but keep in mind, in order to be a productive leader, you must go through what you're asking others to do.

With a variety of unique, specialized equipment, you can program to address a multitude of player strengths and weaknesses.

Training a high number of athletes in a limited number of time poses unique problems for timing and extensive warm-ups. Use these quick and efficient protocols to streamline team workouts.