Training and Coaching: Getting It Done (Part 2)
Coaching, training, planning...it is all in a days work.
Kentucky Strong: Add 100 Pounds to Your Pull
Chase provides you a 24 week deadlift program to add 100 pounds to your pull.
Training with Purpose: Programming Thoughts and Considerations for the N...
Naspinski once again visits block periodization and offers tips you can apply to your training in the coming year.
The More You Get Hurt, the More You Get Hurt
I was on cloud nine and feeling like I had dodged a bullet.
Friday Technique Video: Shoulder Integrity Exercises
Do you want to keep benching, deadlifting, and squatting heavy? Then you better keep your shoulders healthy.
USAPL American Open Results
I had some good PRs, some serious let downs, and a great battle with IPF world deadlift champ Mike Hedlesky.
Lessons from West Point (Part 2)
In Part 2, Mark Watts talks about difficult recruitment, traveling for his own training, and adaptations to athlete programming.
Monster Garage Gym: The Gear Is Ready to Go Heavier, But Are You?
If you are new to gear, respect not only the gear but the inordinately heavier weights that you will attempt.
Benefits and Proper Use of Weightlifting Belts
If you wear your belt while doing curls, make sure that you’re wearing color coordinated fingerless gloves
Kentucky Strong: Should You Compete?
If you’re serious about your training and passionate about strength sports and are even considering competing, you should.
NYSC Undercover: Fred Duncan and Coach X Hypertrophy Roundtable (Part 1)
Lift consistently and the demand is perceived as worthy of increasing muscle to handle the work.
Friday Technique Video: Foot Placement for the Bench Press
How is your body built to maximize your leverages?
Tips to Help Five Common Deadlift Mistakes
Technique tips and accessory movements to help fix five common mistakes in the deadlift.
A Lion in Iron: Seven Habits of TRYING to be Successful
Seven blunt behaviors to set you on the path to success (without the sugar coating).
How Training for a Single-ply Meet Benefited My Multi-ply
I knew I wasn’t done powerlifting, not by a long shot, but something needed to change.
I'm Too Young to Be This Damn Old: Divas
Most are willing to share their knowledge, but there are exceptions.
A Lion in Iron: Time, It is All You Have (Part 3)
One day gives you 24 hours to get closer to your goal.
Tips When Traveling for a Meet
Elitefts™ Coach Bob Youngs shares his ‘Tips When Traveling for a Meet‘ checklist.
No Bullsh*t: How To Not Sound Like an Idiot
For those times when you do have to open your mouth and speak…
Monster Garage Gym: It's Not Always the Strongest Lifter Who Wins
It’s not always the strongest lifter who wins…it is the most prepared.
Post-Meet Reflections: Building Momentum
It is easy to put too much pressure on ourselves as competitors, but we have to realize that each meet is building momentum toward long-term success.
Reno Hardcore: The Flying Scotsman
Mental toughness is the difference between getting huge PR lifts and missing them.
Friday Technique Video: Proper Execution of the Power Clean
Are you hurting your athletes more than helping them?
The Flexible Periodization Method: Program Design with Kettlebells (Part...
Jensen’s conclusion to the Flexible Periodization Method series.
I'm Too Young to Be This Damn Old: Training Update
What the hell could this old man have discovered that is not already known?
Kentucky Strong: Five Tips for the Commercial Gym Lifter
Commercial gym woes got you down? Try these tips.
11 Items the College Lifter Should Have in Their Gym Bag
Eleven items you need to become strong(er).
A Lion in Iron: Training—Ritual or Habit?
Training as a habit and training as a ritual are two very different things. Which one best fits you?
WATCH: Pelvic Tilt for Deadlift Lockout
Is your lockout holding you back from breaking deadlift PRs?
Monster Garage Gym: What Is Right with Powerlifting?
The meet was everything that is right with powerlifting.
Reno Hardcore: Ten-Day Training Cycle
As we get stronger, everything changes and we have to keep adapting the program in order to keep getting stronger.
I'm Too Young to Be This Damn Old: Best
We all strive to be the very best we can be to achieve our genetic potential.
WATCH: Leg Drive for Bench Press
The key to a big bench is to keep this technique from an open bar to over 600 pounds.