You Ask, We Answer with Dave Tate (Round 3, Part 4)
Dave shares some advice that may help you as you work through your injury issues.
I'm Too Young to Be This Damn Old: The Long and Winding Road
The road back to the platform can be long and winding.
I'm Too Young to Be This Damn Old: A Break in Action, Part 3
Doing damn hard work to get back on the platform.
Adding Up to Lower Back Pain
Pain is merely your body’s interpretation that something may be wrong. It doesn’t mean that your days of heavy lifting are over.
Using Powerlifting to Heal
Proper lifting technique is not only important in the gym, but it should also be applied to everyday life.
Iron Insights: I Need a Doctor
Instead of reaching for those antibiotics, you might want to give this a try.
Monster Garage Gym: It Is Not If, But When
At some point in your career as a powerlifter, you will be injured. How will you respond?
The Rehab Guy: Q&A
He’s back! You’ve got questions? He’s got the answers to get you back under the bar.
Stability Is Your Problem...You Just Don’t Know It Yet
Your weak points may not always be a strength issue.
How to be a Superman with Your Knees
I was told that I had a twelve- to eighteen-month recovery ahead of me and that I would never have 100 percent use of my leg again.
Seven Exercises for Rehabbing Your Ankle Sprain
Sprained your damn ankle again? The worst part is getting it back to full strength, but with these seven exercises, you can cut your rehab time in half.
Iron Subculture UNCENSORED with Dave Tate
Dave shows up for work pretty riled up. He feels the need to say some things…
Restoring Joint Function
When squatting or in any movement, your joints should move through all three planes to some degree.
Quick Thoughts on the Science of Lifting
It’s something to be concerned with if you’re a competitive athlete because folks are obviously getting busted.
Disable Your Strength Limits, Focus on Pain
Take the time to fix your aliments and you’ll be thanking yourself for those three weeks that gave you continued years of pain-free training.
Band Pull-Apart Super Series for Healthy Shoulders
One of the biggest issues we face at our gym is shoulder health.
The Rough Patch
It seems that when most folk are going through a rough patch in life, lifting gets them through it.
Julia Ladewski's Assessment with Mike Robertson
Watch as Julia explains what she learned after her trip to see Mike Robertson.
Prehabilitation for Bigger PRs
If you live a healthy enough lifestyle and perform the correct preventative movements, your body’s ability to heal will be exponentially greater.
You Can’t Get Jacked if You’re All Jacked Up: How to Warm Up Your Client...
All you need is five minutes to foam roll, five minutes to do the breathing and bracing, and five minutes to do the dynamic warm up and you’re all set!
Isometric Face Pulls
Will I ever cure my kyphosis totally? Probably not, but I can at least work on keeping my shoulders healthy.
Facts Needed to Prevent Hamstring Strains
Once you’ve experienced a hamstring strain, you wish nothing more than for it to never have happened or at least for it to never happen again.
The Creatine Facts
One of the longest standing controversies in the world of health, fitness, and athletic performance is whether or not one should take creatine.
Three-Dimensional Hip Strength for Performance and Injury Prevention
A stable and optimal hip can produce force in all three dimensions of movement—flexion/extension, abduction/adduction, and internal/external rotation.
Death of Static Stretching?
Developing an active and full range of motion (ROM) in our relationships between muscles and joints is vastly important for optimum performance.
EFS Classic: Flexibility/Mobility: An elitefts™ Roundtable Discussion
With Jim Wendler, Mark McLaughlin, Bob Youngs, Alwyn Cosgrove, Tom Deebel, Jason Ferruggia, Julia Ladewski, Dave Tate, and Mike Hope.
Training Around Back Pain
The bottom position of a squat or deadlift is where the lumbar spine is most vulnerable.
Adventures in Spinal Surgery
I believe that since I’ve been training with it like this these last couple of years, at least I should be able to continue without a problem.
Training Concepts, Recovery and Knee Rehab with Buddy Morris
These videos made me realize what I needed to do in order to preserve longevitiy in doing what I love…lifting!!
A Twist on 5/3/1 for a Recovering Weightlifter
I don’t take any credit for this but instead give credit to the mind who published his idea for the 5/3/1 program—Jim Wendler.
How to Use the Sled for Virtually Everything
How many of you in the “elitefts™ family” have a sled, Prowler®, or homemade version of one of these?
Things I Learned Vacationing in the Developing World
Man, do I love vacation time. It’s the best time of year for resting, recovering, reflecting, and replanning.
Injury Prevention Series: IT Band Syndrome
Few sayings are more sagacious than the adage “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
Back to a Pain-Free Bench
What’s more important is bench pressing without messing up your shoulders in the process.
Rolling Pins: Not Just for Bread Dough
In this article, I will show you how to increase the range of motion further in your upper body to get the most out of all your upper body movements like the bench, row, shoulder press, and chin-up.
Vincent Dizenzo's Rant on Warming Up
We would like to know your thoughts on warming-up and recovery.
Does Stretching Make You Flexible?
This goes out to all the mobility experts, strength coaches and yoga instructors…
Remove the Extensor Block for a Faster Sprint
Just like the most effective bar path in powerlifting is a vertical line, there are optimal directions for movement in sports.
21st Century Sleep Tactics
When we think of bettering performance, the topic of recovery is paramount.
Sleep or Not to Sleep?
And if all else fails, I’ll do what all other powerlifters do with nagging injuries, I’ll ignore it.
Cherry Juice...Recovery Aid?
On the face of it, cherry juice may just appear to be the latest in a long line of super foods.
A Brief Overview of Shoulder Subluxations
Regardless of whether or not you have the surgery, you’ll need to focus on extensive warm-ups prior to activities that cause subluxations.
Tips and Tricks for Rehabbing and Preventing Common Sports Injuries
When your training is going well, your body is able to recover better.
The Rocking Boat to Recovery
As a powerlifting coach and professional clinical social worker, I used to define “recovery” in two different ways depending on what hat I was wearing at the time.
Rehab/Prehab Work for Your Shoulders
Here are 10 easy effective shoulder prehab/rehab warm-ups that we perform at NeboBarbell.
