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

  1. Band Pack
  2. Nose Tork/Wake Up Motherfu***r (Ammonia)
  3. SS Yoke Bar
  4. Gym Chalk
  5. Shoulder Saver / Red Shoulder Saver
  6. Normal Wrist Wrap
  7. Floss Bands
  8. Blue Heat
  9. EFS 12x6" foam roller
  10. Super Heavy Old School Wrist Strap
  11. Black/Red Crescent Duffel Bag
  12. EFS Heavy Knee Sleeves
  13. 5thSet
  14. Croc Locks
  15. EFS Second Generation Lifting Strap
  16. Bar Shield 
  17. Heavy Wrist Wraps
  18. Old School Orange Wrist Straps
  19. 6.5mm P2 Single Prong Powerlifting Belt
  20. 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

  1. 16-Week Powerlifting/Bodybuilding Hybrid Program
  2. The Beginner's Guide to Powerlifting: Everything You’ll Ever Need to Know about Competing
  3. 16 Week Conjugate Periodization Program For Novice Powerlifters
  4. Good Mornings: Understanding a Great Exercise
  5. Brian Schwab's Top 10 Tips on How to Open Your Own Gym
  6. 12-Week Conjugate Program for Raw Powerlifting
  7. Top Six Ways to Increase Your Sprint Speed
  8. How to Stay Small and Weak
  9. Seven Steps for Building the Perfect High School Lineman
  10. Utilizing Prilepin’s Chart
  11. Building Size with Crossfit
  12. Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE)
  13. Top 10 Mistakes Men Make in the Gym
  14. Off-Season Strength Training for Amateur Rugby Players
  15. The Deconstruction of a SHW Powerlifter
  16. 7 Bodybuilding Lies That Are Keeping You Skinny and Weak
  17. Shelby Starnes' 3-Way Hypertrophy Split
  18. Seven Exercises for Rehabbing Your Ankle Sprain
  19. Choosing Conventional or Sumo Based on Your Bone Structure
  20. Why Kai Didn't Win (and Why It Doesn't Matter)

Top-20 Coaching Logs

  1. Keep Yourself at Seventeen Inches
  2. Top 5 Assistance/Accessory Exercises for the Deadlift
  3. Top 5 Assistance/Accessory Exercises for the Squat
  4. Top 5 Assistance/Accessory Exercises for the Bench Press
  5. Why Strength Coaches Quit and Why the People that Hired them Don't Care
  6. How Much Money Do Powerlifters Make?
  7. An Epic Gym Fail - and evaluation of goals and training stresses - 2016wk1
  8. I FINALLY admit defeat in my long standing pursuit of my White Whale
  9. You Have Got To Be Kidding Me!
  10. Reality Check, Steroids, and My Wife's Intuition
  11. Four key factors to staying tight, strong and injury free.
  12. Ed Coan Seminars and THAT Federation
  13. Angry Letter From A PISSED OFF Gym Owner
  14. If I was injury free, would I still compete?
  15. The Worst Advice You Can Give
  16. How I trained as a teen and benched 500
  17. Fixing Squat Problems-Female Quad Dominance
  18. Should Powerlifters do curls?
  19. Epic Fail - Snow Training
  20. Olympic Lifting for Athletic Performance

Top-20 Athlete

  1. For The Fat Boys
  2. OPERATION BE LESS FAT - A LOOK BACK AT 2015
  3. The (Diet) Struggle is Real
  4. "It WILL Pay Off": A Message for Those Struggling with Mental Illness
  5. Powderlifters
  6. Death By Kettlebell!
  7. MY MEET REPORT...THE JUICE IS NO LONGER WORTH THE SQUEEZE
  8. Deadlifts and broken backs
  9. My Nutrition Leading Up to 2016 USS Strongman Nationals
  10. Change of Plans: Week 1 Day 1 of 5/3/1
  11. WPC World's Roundup, Wow What A Ride! (w/video's)
  12. And...I'm Back
  13. What's Next?! The Conjugate Monster
  14. Naked Me
  15. Base Back & Biceps Training Day
  16. In the Life of T- Rex
  17. XPC Finals update
  18. Saying goodbye...
  19. Primary/Base Chest, Shoulders & Triceps
  20. Beginning the Squat Rebuild Part I / What Will Change in My Approach

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Here's to another year of grit, resilience, max effort, PRs, time in the VOID, going all in, low carb days, passion, SFW, going HARD, silencing the critics, getting strong(er), earning your regrets, living, learning, passing on, discipline, barbells and bitches, staying driven, becoming more not less, and gettin' HOOGE.

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