The walkout costs you reps you should be making, and a monolift fixes it before the bar even leaves the hooks.

elitefts Rebuild Series: Tom Sheppard sits down with powerlifter, gym owner, and brain tumor survivor Holly Torrez on autoregulation, sobriety, and what real resilience looks like.

By periodizing cardiorespiratory exercises with your strength workouts, you can build a "lactate sink" in your slow-twitch muscle fibers that enhances metabolic flexibility, sustains muscular power, and serves as the ultimate predictor of a long health span.

"I wanted to know what it felt like to break a PR one more time."

Swede Burns walked into a Philadelphia meet sick, fifteen pounds lighter, and without his wrist wraps. What happened next took a surgeon and three years to fix.

"We will stay on this movement until the athletes are showing proficiency in the things that we are looking for with trunk control ankle mobility squat depth all those things."

Bob Merkh of Atlantic City Barbell breaks down a full-body resistance band workout system you can run from a hotel room, a classroom, or a beach in Panama.

"As much as I talk about the setup being so key for a raw bench, the handoff process is bar none the most important part for a quip bench in my opinion".

 "I knew immediately like I'm not ready to sit back, I'm not ready to be just a gym owner, I'm not ready to be just a coach, I'm not okay with not competing competitively anymore".

Former powerlifter Pete Rubish discusses his radical transformation into a marathon runner, unpacking the severe health scares that forced him to step away from extreme lifting in pursuit of a balanced life, longevity, and faith.

"We're not your typical commercial gym; we're that old-school feel, old-school style garage gym, and we filled it with a bunch of great elitefts equipment."

 "What I'm really watching is the stacking of the wrist, and the elbow, how low the elbow is going to the bench pad is the main indicator".

Tim Walsh drove 12 hours through a blizzard to sit down at the S5 Compound and deliver one of the most practical gut health conversations we've had on Table Talk.

 "I've said you cannot outlift being an asshole, your numbers are going to get you attention, that's not what lasts".

Every system in the human body... is highly affected by movement and movement has a Tipping Point that is either going to be anabolic or catabolic depending on which side of the Tipping Point you are too much or too little".

 "You learn very quickly that any idiot can get somebody tired, but it takes a skilled, professional coach to get somebody better."

"The pain generator is the tissue that's basically screaming out and say 'Hey I'm toast i'm done,' with the idea being that with treatment any treatment should be for the purpose of reducing load on that tissue."

"While a calorie deficit is typically necessary to lose fat, rapid body recomposition—gaining muscle while losing fat—is primarily achievable for beginners, individuals with obesity, those using steroids, or athletes recovering from an injury."

"Powerlifting is a one-man sport right when you're on the platform, but I think it's the epitome of a team sport because it takes more than just you to get you to that point.

You're thirty years old, you track everything, and your labs look like a disaster. Before your doctor puts you on a protocol you don't need, read this.

 Dr. Allan Bacon joins the podcast to debunk pervasive health fads, break down the "unsexy" basics of optimal nutrition, and explain how a lack of sleep can slash a man's testosterone levels by almost 50%.

 Tune in as Dr. Allan Bacon discusses the hidden costs of the daily grind, revealing the truth behind optimal macro tracking, the dangers of viral diet cleanses, and how neglecting your sleep can literally cut your testosterone in half.

"I really started to lean into like let's be as healthy as we can while we wreck our bodies... and then as I've gotten older and my priorities have shifted, my avatar has shifted with me."

"If they do all the things exactly as they should which is the most optimized for their own performance from the very jump I think they limit their career."