Music As A Performance Enhancer
Could your favorite (or least favorite) songs work as psychophysiological performance enhancers? Let’s turn to research for the answer.
YouTube Olympics vs Peaking for Competition
A lot of lifters show huge discrepancies between their strength in training videos and their performance in competition. If you design your program correctly, your best lifts will happen where it counts: on the platform.
Recovery Training: Tedious, Yes, But Simple and Effective
It’s taken me a while to grasp just how necessary these blood pumping sessions can be. Ditch the excuses and start doing these today.
Training Through Obstacles and OBB Success at APF Gulf Coast Winter Bash
Life. It’s difficult. It always manages to throw you curve balls when you’re expecting a straight shot.
How to Cut Weight Without Ruining Your Meet
If you’re going to cut weight, you need to control your body’s response to food and water. Use these reliable methods to make your class without hurting meet day performance.
Who Influences You?
How you learn and who you listen to will determine whether or not you keep growing in this industry.
13 Products for a Mashed-Up Meathead
I’ve had injuries, joint replacements, and years of pain. These items keep me able to train as I can.
How to Know If You Should Be Using VBT
Determining the time to implement velocity-based training hinges on three characteristics of your program and athletes. Give them what they need, when they need it.
My SWIS 2015 Experience
The best come together for a weekend to educate each other on business, strength training, rehab, and nutrition. My head is still spinning.
5 Tips to Come Down A Weight Class
Aside from lessening my bench stroke, carrying extra bodyfat has really no upside. Consider these five easy steps I took to finally say goodbye to Fatville.
Cheat Day Delusions
You’re going to need to meet a very specific criteria before you can indulge on a day full of crunchy, salty, sweet, rich, and savory taste-bud bliss.
Wenis and Wagina Training: Elbow Position Is Everything
Are you conscious of where you’re placing your elbows during presses, rows, flyes, curls, and pullovers?
WATCH: Chris Duffin Interviews All-Time Record Holder Sam Byrd
The rivalry between Duffin and Byrd has pushed both lifters to higher numbers and bigger squats. Hear them talk about their training, history, and competing against one another.
WATCH: Table Talk — Can You Build the Deadlift Without Deadlifting?
A lot of people disagree about how often you should deadlift in the gym, if at all. For 13 years of competing, this is how I trained my deadlift.
The Training of Vince Anello: How He Became the First Man Under 200 Poun...
The five-time IPF World Champion and York Barbell Hall-of-Famer opens up about his life and the methods he used to build his incredible strength, including a 14-week deadlift routine.
10 Items No Gym Should Be Without
If you want your facility to be capable of producing successful strength athletes, you need the right equipment. Here is my must-have list.
Strong(her) Bench Press Progressions for the Novice Female Lifter
Now that we’ve tackled the squat, let’s break down the bench set up and introduce a cue system to use during every set.
WATCH: Managing Knee Pain and Targeting Trigger Points
If you haven’t suffered an impact injury, finding the cause of your discomfort will be a complicated challenge. Use these adjustments to help alleviate pain and discover the source of your lower-body aches.
How to Run A Great Strongman Contest
These eight rules of contest promotion are vital to your event’s success and your athletes’ satisfaction. Do it right and they’ll be back next time.
Certification Craze: Profession Flaws and Our Responsibility
If we want to get better, if we want to improve the future of our profession, we need to be honest with ourselves. We need to understand and address the real issues.
Training Beginners: A Different Approach
When new athletes come into your program you don’t know their abilities, training history, or technical proficiency. This is a crucial part of your program: preparing your athletes for their sport.
An Alternative Look at Concentrated Loading in the Sport of Powerlifting
This revision and reconsideration of the ‘block’ misnomer helped me better understand concentrated loading and produced a new way to program each lift.
Building an Iron Empire
Addressing a prominent need in their area of Dover, New Hampshire, Jen and John Rudolf have opened the doors to their world-class training facility.
The Assessment Paradox
When you test your clients, are you using the assessment to improve a fitness quality or simply to make yourself appear knowledgeable?
16 Week Strength Training Program for Ultra-Marathoners
Athletes get banged up over the years through training, especially for high-endurance events. How do you factor in all these variables when programming to keep your clients healthy , competitive, and injury free?
Failure: A Way to Train Your Fortitude
It’s only a matter of time before I fail again. I used to cringe at the thought of failing, but not anymore.
WATCH: Table Talk — How to Stay Disciplined When Training Stops Being Fun
You can love training more than anything else in your life but that doesn’t mean it’s always going to be fun. What will you do when training becomes the most difficult part of your day?
Are You Hearing Advice But Don't Know How to Listen?
You need someone who isn’t afraid to criticize; you need to listen to what you’re doing wrong.
10 Gifts for the Training-Obsessed Woman
The holiday season is here. If you’re struggling to come up with gift ideas for a girl who places training as her top priority, look no further. I’ve got you covered.
Choices and Accountability
Your life and your future are yours and yours alone. It’s going to be difficult, but the sooner you take responsibility and stop blaming others for your misfortune, the better your life will be.
WATCH: Passion Trumps Everything (Apparel Now Available)
Success is a personal definition. I can’t tell you what it is. But I can tell you about passion.
Happy Thanksgiving — Four Ways To Show Thanks
Children can teach us many lessons about how to show what we’re thankful for. I’m listening to them this year.
Don’t Get Guru'd! 3 Expectations Every Client Should Have of Their ...
Contest prep, if misguided, can leave you mentally and physically depleted with no interest in returning to the stage. Don't let this happen.
The Importance of the Eccentric
If you want the bar to come back up, you need to take care of how it goes down.
Under The Bar: How to Pull off a MASSIVE Bloat
That time of the year is right around the corner. No, I’m not talking about giving and receiving gifts. What I'm talking about is...
I Wanna Get Fat
The decision to cut or add weight does not have to be so complicated. Is it a pleasant experience? Well, that's debatable.
You Never Know How You'll Find Your First Job
Whatever your plans are for breaking into this industry, forget them. It's never going to work out how you plan.
3 Old School Bodybuilding Techniques We Need to Bring Back
Calf raises with my training partner's sweaty ballsack on my back can stay in the past, but it's time to bring back these other forgotten exercises.
16 Methods to Optimize Your Glute Ham Raise
We have known for years that the Glute Ham Raise (GHR) was regarded as one the best movements for the posterior chain (lower back, glutes, hamstrings and calves).
Poor Business Advice from Training and Business 'Gurus'
The advice of other business owners will be an invaluable asset to growing your company— but only if you're listening to the right people.
WATCH: Table Talk — Dave's Best Cheat Meal (13,909 calories!)
If you have only one opportunity per month to eat the foods you want, you don't waste it. By the end of the night I felt like I was going to die.
Foam Rolling: Mechanical Pressure and Its Performance Implications
Though they may seem simple, how, when, and why you use recovery or preparatory techniques should be determined by a deep understanding of the body's neurological and morphological responses.
The Irrational Immediate Gratification Society
Young athletes and parents of young athletes, listen up. There's no powder or program to take you from Pee-wee Herman to Phil Heath overnight.
WATCH: Unilateral Lower Body Training for Sport Performance
These warm-up movements will build strength and power while keeping your body unilaterally symmetrical.
Emotional Control During Competition
To be psychologically prepared is to have optimized the apex of preparatory strategies that most often distinguishes the most elite level competitors, at the highest competitive stage, with their counterparts.
Mythbusters 204-206: Increased Cortisol, The Big 3 Powerlifts, and Fat A...
Let's knock down a few more falsehoods the fitness industry has been pumping into your brain.
Performance Elements to Build During Wrestling's Off-Season
The off-season is your time to improve your strengths, fix your weaknesses, and come back better next year. Here are the most important things to consider when planning your training.
'It Looked Good in Theory'
Trends dominate the personal training industry. Rely on self-education to determine the difference between what sounds good and what IS good.
Maximum Effort Training for the Front Seven
Using this three-step approach, strengthen, motivate and challenge a team to excel in the sport of football.
Broken Idols
Be careful who you place on a pedestal. The ramifications may leave you highly devastated.
WATCH: Annual Programming for Powerlifting— Daily Layout of Squat and De...
Your yearly setup is complete. Now let's look at individual days and how to program main, supplemental, and accessory exercises.
3-Week Cycle of Off-Season Volume Fun
We've had great success devoting three weeks to volume in transition from and to competition prep with this 2-on/1-off/2-on/weekend-off setup.
WATCH: Table Talk — Learning From Novice Mistakes
The annoying lifter in your gym might seem like he's making no progress, but screwing around is exactly what he needs.
Getting the Most Out of Online Coaching
There are obstacles to overcome for effective online coaching. If you've considered working with a coach from a distance, here are the things you'll need to do for an optimal working relationship.
External Rotation: Small Cue for a Big Squat
This vital component of a safe and powerful squat has been misconstrued and misunderstood by much of the strength community. Let's get it right.
Ongoing Technological Investments—Looking Ahead
2015 has been a big year for elitefts. As it comes to a close, we're continuing to stay busy by using the knowledge we gained through many major changes. There are more to come.
Consistency is the Name of the Game
To develop and ingrain the habits of success overlook no fine details.