It's Not Just Five Pounds: Understanding Personal Records
When you’re chipping away at that all-time PR, every pound matters.
WATCH: When to Use elitefts™ Compression Floss Bands
Unsure how to use this new product? Here’s a personal message from the House of Biceps.
Powerlifting is a Science. Be the Scientist.
Approach your training and your progress with the mindset of a problem-solver. Sometimes this means asking others for help and sometimes this means figuring shit out for yourself.
WATCH: Hard Science and Training with Justin Harris
What happens when you mix atomic physics with meathead instinct?
How To Execute a Front and Side Relaxed Pose
Don’t hide your perfect physique with poor posing. Follow these tips from professional posing coach Dave Myers.
3 Ways to Help You Stay On Your Diet
These simple tips will keep you on the path to your dream physique.
WATCH: The Comprehensive Guide to Knee Wraps
We've got a lot to choose from. This video will help you decide which wraps are right for you.
Promoting Powerlifting to Young Lifters
Having the opportunity to bring up the next generation of strength athletes is a task as much as a privilege. Use your influence wisely.
Bodybuilders Dying Young: Are Steroids to Blame?
Doctors and strength athletes frequently argue over the effects (good and bad) of performance-enhancing drugs, but some facts aren't debatable.
Two Dynamic Bench Cycles That Will Blow Your Bench Up
Are you looking for something new to take you bench up a notch? Here are two.
Mastery of Skill: Humility and Confidence
Confidence certainly fits the generally accepted mold of the alpha male, as it should. What about confidence?
Pre Raw Meet Cycle: going from equipped to raw lifting
Are you a geared lifter looking to enter your first raw meet? Read this...
Mistakes 101: Doing Things That Hurt
Pain is inevitable. It is up to you to determine which pain to seek and which pain to avoid.
WATCH: Better Attention, Better Results at Relentless Performance
This gym in Vero Beach, Florida offers the attention of multiple highly-educated trainers with years of personal experience.
You Aren't Original...and Neither Am I
How are your ideas, new or recycled, helping anyone but yourself?
Now Available: Sprinting Problems, Prowler Solutions
Joe DeFranco takes an in-depth look at how to use a variety of tools - including the elitefts Prowler - to help push your athletes' speed to the next level!
Lessons from the 2015 CSCCa Conference
In constant strive to get better as a coach and staff, these six things will prove useful.
Mythbusters 101: Don't Fall for These Fallacies
Bad information is passed from lifter to lifter, website to website. Let's end the charade.
Three Burpee Technique Flaws and How to Fix Them
If you've done this exercise, chances are you've done it wrong. Take it from me, I did 100 reps per day for an entire year.
Should Athletes Powerlift in the Off-Season?
Whether you're an off-season athlete or an athlete who isn't getting everything you want out of your school's team sports, powerlifting can be a viable option in your yearly process.
The Self-Education Lessons I Learned from John Meadows
The academic world will only take you so far. Once the formal education is over, how will you continue to improve yourself?
LISTEN: Tobias Jacobi Discusses Humility vs Ego, Sports Specialization, ...
The strength and conditioning coach from Strong Rock Christian School shares his experience from coaching multiple levels and sports.
4 Ways to Test Your Grit in the Weightroom
If you can survive these challenges it will be good for...but it won't feel that way.
Understanding Huge
Pack in the calories and pack on the pounds. Does your stomach have what it takes to eat like Chad Aichs?
3 Commercial Gym Conditioning Workouts You Can Do in 15 Minutes or Less
No time but need to shed some fat? These quick sessions will leave you in a puddle of sweat.
How Are We Judged As Strength Coaches?
Wins and losses? Injury prevention? Fourth-quarter dominance?
Of Levers and Lifting
The human body is a system of levers. When we understand the concepts of these mechanisms, we then increase our force-production capabilities.
Bill Tocco — When Cult Worlds Collide
When fitness was nothing more than an afterthought of the culture, this pro skateboarder created his own approach and looked to strength and conditioning to forge a new path.
14 Articles Every Strength Coach, Trainer, Lifter & Athlete Must Read
These are 14 articles I feel every coach, trainer and lifter must read.
Managing My Injuries with Dr. Kinakin's Specialized Rehabilitation ...
Athletes and lifters must care for their bodies with the attention of every detail. For me, this meant seeking deep acupuncture, electrical impulses, and the use of a percusser.
LISTEN: How Mike Boyle Became a Coach of Influence
One of the original strength coaches in the industry, Coach Boyle talks training, leadership, and more of what coaches need to hear.
Arrogance vs Relevance: Fix Your Business Practices
If you're relying on the wave of popularity to bring you clients, what will you do when the dry season comes.
12 Shoulder-Building Press and Raise Variations
Ditch that boring, straight-bar overhead press in exchange for these shoulder-pumping, hypertrophic alternatives.
4 Weeks To Bigger Arms
A very simple four-week training block to put some size on your arms, help stabilize your basic lifts and increase overall strength.
You Need a Glute Ham Raise — Here's Why
Whichever GHR you opt for, it’s clear that this is a necessary exercise to optimize your performance.
Hang On: The Al Caslow Deadlift Program
This is the original deadlift routine Alwyn Cosgrove drew up for Shawn Frankl after he stalled in the mid- 700s.
The 3 Qualities of a Great Personal Trainer
Do more than count the reps of your clients. Build these skills and you'll increase the value of your personal training services.
WATCH: Mike Mastell Discusses His Experiences with Strongman and Biochem...
An elite level competitor shares the major factors that have influenced his training.
The Long Road To Victory: My Journey to a PhD
The process of completing undergraduate, masters, and doctorate programs will challenge you in ways that test your dedication and desire for your craft.
What to Expect From a Supplement Company Sponsorship
Every aspiring lifter in this industry dreams of being sponsored by their favorite brand. But does the reality stack up to the fantasy.
WATCH: Why Communication is Key to a Better Coaching Career
Clear pathways of communication can optimize relationships and elongate careers.
Harnessing the Placebo Effect: If You Care, You’ll Lie to Me
What if I gave you a singular technique that would improve your athletic performance in any way you wanted?
Westside vs The Russian Conjugate System
Is the Russian conjugate system superior to the Westside conjugate system? Are they they same?
Building the Yoke: Utilize the Function of the Upper Traps
Stop thinking of your traps and start thinking of your clavicles.
Using Squats and Sled Pulling for Sprint Speed Development
Sprinting has both horizontal and vertical components. If your athletes aren't training both, they're not going to be as fast as they could be.
My Years with HIT
When I started bodybuilding, I looked up to Dorian Yates, so I trained like him. And it worked.
Why Compete?
Experts weigh in on the reasons behind all of training pain and preparation of competing in a strength sport.
WATCH: Two Bench Press Mechanical Drop-Sets for Hypertrophy
In a traditional drop-set, you decrease weight in successive reps. With these variations, you will alter the movements to train past failure and new growth.
The C-2 Training Program
With this program, each mesocycle (aka 3 weeks/microcycles) focuses on a different portion of a muscle action. In other words - This will make you STRONG(ER).
The Results from an Off-Season of a Low Dosing Training Protocol
We cut the time in the gym and on the field, hoping to increase efficiency. Now we find out: did it work?
Living and Training as a Bipolar Narcoleptic: Changes and The Future
I have my own demons to keep in line. They're a product of my disorders and I've learned to accept this.
Are You Consuming, Producing or Engaging?
Proper communication and behavior requires a firm understanding of your surroundings and of those with whom you interact.
How To Program Your Training for Kettlebell Sport
Two programs outline how to use the ballistic methods of kettlebell training to improve joint mobility and strengthen ligaments and tendons for a competitive edge.
How and Why I Dieted to 7-Percent Body Fat: Show Day
The time has come to make final preparations and step on stage. Here are thoughts and reflections from this demanding journey.
