3 Things Lifters and Coaches Need to Know About Pain
Do not fear pain; it is your body’s method of communicating a need for change. Here’s how to handle the pain and determine what specific change your body needs.
GPS Tracking in the Real World: My Experiences with American Collegiate ...
GPS tracking for sport’s performance may seem overwhelming at first, but I have found with the right data and tracking methods, proper technology will yield improved performance.
WATCH: Kettlebell Training for Team Sports
Implement these multi-functional and easy-to-learn movements into your team training for greater time efficiency in the weight room.
Your Ego Is Your Biggest Obstacle
When you’re occupied with trying to show how good you think you are, how will you have time to develop your skills?
The Seminar That Changed Training (full version)
This seminar is the real deal, not a staged production. It is exactly what I was teaching years ago.
Recovery Work for Increased Growth and Performance
When your progress slows and your body breaks down beyond repair, it’s time to reexamine your recovery and restoration protocol. Is it doing what it should?
Reviewing the Ript 3 Phase Skin Reinforcement System for Torn Calluses
A torn callus may not be a long-term injury that requires a rehab protocol, but if it happens close to a meet, you need to be ready. Here’s how I recovered after tearing my hand open at the S4 Compound.
Picking The Right Carbs On Your High and Low Days
Losing fat and gaining muscle isn’t as simple as low carbs and high carbs. This list will serve as your guide to the best fat-incinerating carbohydrates you need in your diet.
The Forgotten Power of Training
There are two types of adversity you will experience as a lifter: the stress you can plan for and the stress you can’t. How will this effect determine your path in life and in the gym?
Learning Things the Hard Way
Learning not to do stupid things will take you further in this sport than any training method.
WATCH: Clint Darden Teaches How To Fine-Tune the Log Press
An experienced strongman competitor already knows the basics. This video shows how to clean up the sloppy habits and press heavier weight overhead.
The Definitive Guide to the Board Press
We are certain this article and embedded videos will not hit every sports and news outlet online, but at least you will LEARN HOW TO F**CKING BOARD PRESS! We have no idea what caused the recent train wreck, but can offer one solution by reposting an article from six years ago.
WATCH: How to Implement Auto-Regulatory Training in a Team Setting
Auto-Regulatory Training can give coaches an athlete-governed system to promote an optimal training environment with limited resources and shorter training cycles
Are You Overtrained or Under-Recovered?
Some people will tell you that overtraining isn’t real. Don’t listen to these people. Take the time to consider your recovery just as much as you consider your training.
The Full Body, 10-Minute Bodybuilding Warm-Up
This efficient and all-inclusive pre-training routine will physically and mentally prepare you for the rigors of a serious session in the gym.
Motivation and Inspiration: What Keeps You Going?
Sometimes working through adversity feels like a task you cannot possibly do on your own. Here are some ways to keep you going when things get tough.
To Stretch or Not: What Does Scientific Study Say About Stretching and M...
Several popular training programs call for a regimented stretching protocol as part of every workout. Is this all hype, or could it be the secret to your next 25 pounds of muscle?
LISTEN: Scott Stevenson's Scientific Approach to Peri-Workout Nutri...
The possibilities when constructing a pre, intra, and post-workout nutrition plan are nearly endless. Let Scott Stevenson break down the principles for you.
Shiftwork, Sleep Deprivation, and Training: How to Overcome A Less Than ...
If you’re looking for the ideal training effect with a poor work and sleep schedule, you won’t find it. A lot of people try. A lot of people fail. Here’s how I learned to work around it.
How the Best Strength Coaches Deal with Scheduling Conflicts and the Coa...
Ever wonder how collegiate athletes manage time between scholastics, sports practices, and lifting? Here’s how S&C coaches can help and develop a better relationship with sport coaches.
Save a Newbie
Remember all those things you wish you would have known when you started? Maybe we should do more than laugh at the guy across the gym doing machine decline iso-lateral presses.
Aerobic Threshold Training for Field Sports: The Starting Point for Repe...
To help athletes overcome the limiting factor of human performance, an adequate training program must address an individual’s aerobic metabolism.
WATCH: Passion Trumps Everything
Human potential is a lot higher than we think it is. It has always been higher.
Iron Warrior Gym Drives Progress Through Competitive Atmosphere
Business partners J.J. Stepien and Seth Lee lead the development of strength in this Denver, Colorado training facility.
What Type of Deload Will Help You Recover Best?
Deloads are extremely useful for making continual progress from harsh training. When the time comes for you to back off the weights, make sure you do it the right way.
Fourteen and Broken: The Female Athlete
Discourage injuries through coaching basics that will appropriately prep your athletes for the field and weight room.
Alternatives to Traditional Size and Fitness Programming
The best program for muscle hypertrophy and aerobic capacity extends the training perspective to a year-long pursuit of improved fitness.
5thSet: Swede’s Jedi Mind Trick
You can expect a good program to make you stronger. What I didn't expect was a program to overhaul my neural network and solve every training problem I encountered.
Cardio in the Off-Season: Blasphemy, Beneficial or Badass
Can off-season cardio make for a leaner, healthier growing bodybuilder or will it nip your gains in the bud? Stevenson solves the cardio conundrum.
Old School elitefts Training Motivation
Looking for motivation? We've got exactly the training footage you need.
101 Ways to Use the OBB Power Handles
Get more out of your standard barbell and dumbbell set by the swivel of a bolt and the tightening of a wing nut. It's that easy.
WATCH: Basic Linear Speed Acceleration Drills in a Team Setting
Training athletes in a team setting poses problems that are easily overlooked. Here are several coaching strategies and cues to get your athletes moving smarter and faster.
LISTEN: The Science and Strength of Scott Stevenson
Stevenson discusses his educational and practical experience and explains how each of his disciplines have contributed to his life and approach to bodybuilding.
How to Develop Through Coaching Others
Guiding younger lifters isn't only about giving back to the sport you love — when you do it correctly, you grow, too.
Regenerative Medicine: The Future of Rehabilitation?
My journey from torn muscles to new PRs led me to Dr. Parikh, an expert on unconventional methods of recovery.
LISTEN: Joe Hashey Discusses Training Process, Football Players, and Wha...
The owner of Synergy Athletics and two-time NSCA featured speaker breaks down his career path and gives the advice that all trainers and gym owners need to hear.
WATCH: Clint Darden Coaches How to Shave Seconds Off the Farmer's Walk
These simple pick and acceleration adjustments will give you the edge you need during the initial seconds of the farmer's carry.
Taking the Rind, Leaving the Juice
If you're going to emulate someone great, make sure you're picking out the things that matter and not copying the things that don't.
6 Exercises to Engage Your Child's Senses
Make each training session sensory-rich, personal, and dynamic for the child with special needs. Tweak your approach by considering these six exercises.
Training the Inner Drive
Your career in this world of strength will only go as far as your desire to win. Lose that, and you lose any chance you ever had to succeed.
Barely Making Weight and My Results from Team Universe
The days leading up to my competition were full of challenges and stress. My coach John Meadows listened and helped me formulate a plan for this show and the future.
WATCH: A Better Way to Train High School Athletes
A year-round training solution for the multi-sport athletes.
Expanding My Circle of Training Knowledge
There is a well-known saying in our industry: information in strength and conditioning doubles every eighteen months. How will you keep up?
Ka-BOOM! A Learning Experience in Failure and Bombing
When faced with failure you have two options: sit down and quit or push harder. Several weeks ago I found myself in this predicament.
Do Your Records Mean Anything?
There's a lot of hatred thrown around when a lifter hits a federation record. Should we be celebrating the PR with them?
The 6 Best Peri-Workout Nutrition Compilation
Peri-workout nutrition experts Justin Harris, Ben Hartman, and Scott Stevenson, give you the insight you need to understand and create your own protocol.
Integrity (Or a Lack Thereof)
Why is our industry full of morally corrupt lifters and unoriginal thieves? Isn't there something we can do?
Price of the Platform
From test vials to Vicodin bottles, a handful of powerlifting champions recount their sacrifices. Was it worth it?
LISTEN: Delegating High School Athlete Accountability Through Character ...
NSCA High School Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year Fred Eaves discusses the culture he has created at Battle Ground Academy.
The Practice of Overcoming Fear
Fear is not something to be avoided. Do not run from one of the most powerful human sensations. Embrace it and use it to your advantage.
WATCH: Clint Darden Shows How to Teach and Use the Clean for Athletes
An old football programming staple, the clean is used (and misused) by hundreds of coaches every year. Clint Darden starts at the bottom and fixes everything a football player needs for better carryover and better performance.
Did You Win or Lose the Day?
Build your winning culture the same way you build in the weight room: every session, every set, and every rep leading to game day.
8 Best Maximal Lifting Techniques for Mega Mass
Bodybuilding training isn’t the only way to build muscle. Here are serious hypertrophy techniques ripped straight from the powerlifting platform.
Cutting Weight for Strongman: Is It Helping or Hurting You?
Unlike other strength sports, your weight class dictates the implements you'll use to compete in Strongman. Here's how to know if and when to cut weight.
Solving the Summer Challenges of Coaching Collegiate Athletes
With summer programming for athletes, control what you can control and don't sweat the rest.
Competence is Confidence
Belief in yourself is only useful if you take the time to build your abilities. Here's the formula to turn bravado into skilled-mastery.
The Hook Grip & Straps by the Legend Steve Goggins. Plus a 900lb pull!
The Hook Grip & Straps by the Legend Steve Goggins. Plus a 900lb pull!
WATCH: Buddy Morris's Physical Preparation for Football
This specially-released footage from the elitefts Sport's Performance Training Summit goes inside the mind of a strength and conditioning pioneer.
