Losing, Failing and Quitting
Choosing how you view the outcome, will determine if you advance in your goals.
Two Decades at the Top: Schwab's Secrets to Longevity
If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge an injury.
Cross-Country Journey Keeps Legacies Alive
Former Army Football Captain Mike Viti hikes 7100 kilometers to honor 7100 service members KIA in the Global War on Terror.
The Courage of Introspection
Why do we act like the depth of our squat is more important than the depth of our character?
Falling Short of Failure
You can learn the darndest things from people with hard-to-pronounce names.
The Team elitefts Original Soundtrack
What does it take to crank your training intensity? Team elitefts goes all Siskel & Ebert on that.
Do You Have The Truman Factor?
Little known fact: despite those whole "atomic bomb incidents," Truman deadlifted sumo.
WATCH: The NEW elitefts!
Our game plan: kick in doors, knock down walls, and create content unlike anything you’ve ever seen before.
Lifting: A Gauge of Truth
You could lie about how hard you train, the foods you eat, and your gym PRs…but progress will only happen if you're true to the weights.
WATCH: Pulcinella's Advice for Teen Lifters
You're still growing hair in funny places, so you don’' know any better. Listen up.
Five Ways to Build Mental Toughness
Bulletproof your mind. Bulletproof your back. Hell, bulletproof everything.
WATCH: The Team Talks About the Team
Fifteen years of team members share their experiences and reasons of being a part of elitefts.
Gluten for Punishment
I see you sitting there with a smug look on your face as you drink your gluten-free water. You ain't so smart.
A Year of Eating for Strength
Fill your calendar and your stomach with this annual guide for progress-driven nutrition.
The Problem of Oversimplification
With a complex organism such as the human body, answers to questions must contain a broad analysis covering various components.
Meet New Team Member Meana Franco
With guidance from hall-of-famer Steve Goggins, Franco is poised to make her mark in the sport.
I'm Not Sad for Mike Matarazzo
I’m sad that not enough people live the way they want to—happy and on their own terms.
Elitefts.com to Syndicate Original Content on MensHealth.com
Partnership brings quality information to a broader audience.
Nutrition Strategies for Busy Lifters
No BS guide to packing in your food without having to resort to the drive-thru.
The Philosophy of Muscle: Examinations of the Big Questions
Expert in ethics, philosophy, law, and social policy (as well as WNBF bodybuilding pro), Dr. Melina Bell examines bodybuilding through a philosophical lens.
Nutrition Advice from Generation X (to Y and Z)
When your elders say “eat your veggies,” you young'uns better listen.
Constructing Your Program
The second segment of my guide to off-season programming. It's what you choose to do between competitions that matters.
Veteran's Perspective of the Platform
Are you obsessing over the minutiae and overlooking the big picture?
3 Common Deadlift Mistakes
We give you three easy fixes and a program to put your stubborn deadlift back on track to PRs.
Breath Control for Optimal Performance
Appease your moral conscious by taking the prophalctic approach to birth control. Oh sorry…you said breath control.
The Courage of the Female Football Player
It takes a special kind of person to strive for their goals while ignoring traditional limitations.
In-Season Training Discussion with Todd Hamer
We invade Robert Morris University during football two-a-days to grill a prominent strength coach.
Preventing Adaptation to Exercise
Bodybuilding magazines have promulgated the myth of muscle confusion. While it sounds ridiculous, a slight tweaking in your exercises will grease the path of continued progress.
A Better Joy Than Envy
Do you want to be the guy with bigger biceps, the guy who sleeps with more girls, the guy who pounds more beer and drives the faster car?
The Powerlifter's Guide to Off-Season Programming
SWOT analysis is crucial in developing a business plan, but can it also be applied to your powerlifting?
A Modern Approach to Contest-Day Eating for Strongman
That stack of bottomless pancakes you had for breakfast won't taste so good coming up after the medley.
You've Got the Map, Follow the Damn Directions
Don’t get caught in the speed trap on your way to Gainesville.
Lessons for Parents, Coaches, and Players
Are players expected to display self control on the field if parents don't demonstrate it from the bleachers?
The Building of Mike Strom
As Strom prepares for Worlds, his coach reflects on what it took to get there.
Fighting Disease with Weight Training
Parental Project Muscular Dystrophy Association conference gave Petrosino a sobering realization.
You Will Be Stronger
At the last Learn to Train seminar, I saw attendees do amazing things. The Powerlifting Experience will be even better.
Memories of Westside
You all have heard a lot of stories, now let me cut through Dave's Westside bullshit.
Has the Expert Earned Your Trust?
In a world of duplicitous grifters and unscrupulousness marketers, what qualities serve as a beacon of truth?
Selkow Reveals the Training Secrets Obama Doesn't Want You to Know
If Selkow were president, he'd lead a thick-neck nation.
Challenges the Best Female Strength Coaches Face
Overcoming obstacles in strength and conditioning is what separates the best from the rest.
Heroically Overcoming the Villiany of Injury and Depression
Super Zane snorts kryptonite like an ammonia inhalant and laughs in the face of rehabilitation.
Fix Your Boring Warm-up
Borrowing ideas from Olympic lifting to make pre-workout interesting and effective.
Twelve-Week Explosive Bench Program
Drive that bar off your chest like you’re wearing a C4-laced bench shirt.
Using Gear to Overload Your Raw Strength
If you aren’t wising up to the value of gear for raw lifting, Joe will choke you out with a pair of Krait Knee Wraps.
On Being a Father
The job doesn't come with a guidebook, but you can learn from the experiences of Team elitefts!
How Becoming a Father Changed My Training and Nutrition
Are family obligations reasonable excuses to slack on your gym goals or do they reinforce your reason for becoming your best?
Big Wave Surfing and Powerlifting are Similar, Dude
Is driving out of the hole on a squat PR any harder than burying the rail on a sweet wave? Hell yeah, it is!
3 Contrarian Training Strategies
You are embarrassing! You come in here…doing those stale-ass sets, in that stale-ass program, as part of your stale-ass training cycle…and you expect results?
A Practical Approach to Achieving Desired Sport Outcomes
In the authors previous article he sold you on the importance of solid programming. In this one, he delivers the game plan.