training

Most lifters focus on what to add. The ones who get strong figure out what to cut.

"The overhead press is probably the single best exercise for ingraining your ability to root into the floor and maintain a neutral posture compared to any other exercise."

"Conjugate training is basically the coupling... it's combining different methods of training... taking the method of Max effort... the repetition method and the dynamic effort method and combining them all together."

Kairikido blends powerlifting, Olympic lifting, strongman, and gymnastics into one structured system for building complete, real-world strength. With clear standards, progression levels, and adaptable programming, it’s designed to develop athletes—not just numbers in the gym.

The box squat is the most effective squatting tool available, and if you're not using it, your squat is leaving pounds on the platform.

It came from Westside Barbell, it has been in every gym we have ever had, and the story behind it says more about what elitefts is than almost anything else I can point to.

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.

A Pink Floyd lyric I used to open seminars in 2018 still stops people cold because most of us already know the answer

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.

By adjusting the upper arm angle and grip during a dumbbell row, you can shift the muscular focus from a lat-dominant pull with the elbow tucked near the hip to a flared, pronated position that emphasizes the rhomboids, rear delts, and traps for upper back thickness.

Ashley Jones on coaching philosophy, strength, recovery, individualization, and why simple training done with intent still wins.

"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".

Your life is the sum of every decision you made and every excuse you accepted, and the sooner you own that, the sooner things change.

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.

I picked up a book about organizational strategy and ended up reading a chapter-by-chapter breakdown of every training mistake I made for the first decade of my career.

"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".