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Outfitting and educating the strongest athletes around the world, let's start off this year-in-review with the top-20 product list (based on popularity) from 2016. Realize, as business owners, strength athletes, strength coaches, gym owners, and garage lifters, we're all placed at a different spot on the purchasing continuum. Newbies and veterans of all disciplines, use this product list as a resource to supplement your current strength training inventory. Read the specs and reviews of the equipment and accessories to learn how a particular purchase may help reach your strength goals — small or large, one item can make the world of difference.
Top-20 Products
- Band Pack
- Nose Tork/Wake Up Motherfu***r (Ammonia)
- SS Yoke Bar
- Gym Chalk
- Shoulder Saver / Red Shoulder Saver
- Normal Wrist Wrap
- Floss Bands
- Blue Heat
- EFS 12x6" foam roller
- Super Heavy Old School Wrist Strap
- Black/Red Crescent Duffel Bag
- EFS Heavy Knee Sleeves
- 5thSet
- Croc Locks
- EFS Second Generation Lifting Strap
- Bar Shield
- Heavy Wrist Wraps
- Old School Orange Wrist Straps
- 6.5mm P2 Single Prong Powerlifting Belt
- EFS Pro Mobility Ball
Equipment is only half of the equation. What's the other half? You know it — education. In addition to what you're buying, below is the top-20 list of the most popular articles and logs read in 2016. This is a great opportunity to read or watch what you missed or reread/rewatch the post/video that got you moving in the right direction (up!). Thank you to our columnists, coaches, athletes, and outside submitters for providing the quality content. Note: the articles and logs may have been published prior to 2016.
Top-20 Articles
- 16-Week Powerlifting/Bodybuilding Hybrid Program
- The Beginner's Guide to Powerlifting: Everything You’ll Ever Need to Know about Competing
- 16 Week Conjugate Periodization Program For Novice Powerlifters
- Good Mornings: Understanding a Great Exercise
- Brian Schwab's Top 10 Tips on How to Open Your Own Gym
- 12-Week Conjugate Program for Raw Powerlifting
- Top Six Ways to Increase Your Sprint Speed
- How to Stay Small and Weak
- Seven Steps for Building the Perfect High School Lineman
- Utilizing Prilepin’s Chart
- Building Size with Crossfit
- Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE)
- Top 10 Mistakes Men Make in the Gym
- Off-Season Strength Training for Amateur Rugby Players
- The Deconstruction of a SHW Powerlifter
- 7 Bodybuilding Lies That Are Keeping You Skinny and Weak
- Shelby Starnes' 3-Way Hypertrophy Split
- Seven Exercises for Rehabbing Your Ankle Sprain
- Choosing Conventional or Sumo Based on Your Bone Structure
- Why Kai Didn't Win (and Why It Doesn't Matter)
Top-20 Coaching Logs
- Keep Yourself at Seventeen Inches
- Top 5 Assistance/Accessory Exercises for the Deadlift
- Top 5 Assistance/Accessory Exercises for the Squat
- Top 5 Assistance/Accessory Exercises for the Bench Press
- Why Strength Coaches Quit and Why the People that Hired them Don't Care
- How Much Money Do Powerlifters Make?
- An Epic Gym Fail - and evaluation of goals and training stresses - 2016wk1
- I FINALLY admit defeat in my long standing pursuit of my White Whale
- You Have Got To Be Kidding Me!
- Reality Check, Steroids, and My Wife's Intuition
- Four key factors to staying tight, strong and injury free.
- Ed Coan Seminars and THAT Federation
- Angry Letter From A PISSED OFF Gym Owner
- If I was injury free, would I still compete?
- The Worst Advice You Can Give
- How I trained as a teen and benched 500
- Fixing Squat Problems-Female Quad Dominance
- Should Powerlifters do curls?
- Epic Fail - Snow Training
- Olympic Lifting for Athletic Performance
Top-20 Athlete
- For The Fat Boys
- OPERATION BE LESS FAT - A LOOK BACK AT 2015
- The (Diet) Struggle is Real
- "It WILL Pay Off": A Message for Those Struggling with Mental Illness
- Powderlifters
- Death By Kettlebell!
- MY MEET REPORT...THE JUICE IS NO LONGER WORTH THE SQUEEZE
- Deadlifts and broken backs
- My Nutrition Leading Up to 2016 USS Strongman Nationals
- Change of Plans: Week 1 Day 1 of 5/3/1
- WPC World's Roundup, Wow What A Ride! (w/video's)
- And...I'm Back
- What's Next?! The Conjugate Monster
- Naked Me
- Base Back & Biceps Training Day
- In the Life of T- Rex
- XPC Finals update
- Saying goodbye...
- Primary/Base Chest, Shoulders & Triceps
- Beginning the Squat Rebuild Part I / What Will Change in My Approach
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