Finding Strength: Lightning Fitness
Connecticut has quite the strongman community. This week I made my way up to South Windsor to visit a real strength athlete’s playground.
WATCH: Table Talk — Jim Wendler Travel Stories and 7 Quick Questions
The seminar era produced stories about cabs and airports and churches and bomb shelters. This is one of my favorites.
WATCH: Darden Q&A From the Compound — How Long Should Your Warm-Up Be?
What is the best way to prepare for your training session? Do you need a foam roller? Muscle activation techniques? A reverse hyper?
Finding Strength: The Origin Story
This is my journey: to help people find strength, like I found strength.
WATCH: Table Talk — How to Keep Strength While Cutting Weight
Dropping bodyweight doesn’t have to mean dropping pounds off your total. If you have reasonable expectations, there are ways to maintain your strength while cutting weight.
WATCH: Chris Duffin Interviews Ryan 'Bench Monster' Kennelly
The record-holder and 1075-pound bench presser openly discusses technique and his comeback from injury in this Kabuki Strength Lab video.
WATCH: Table Talk — The Three Biggest Mistakes Intermediate Lifters Make
If you ever want to reach an elite level in this sport, you have to get the rookie mistakes out of the way. These are the most common problems I see in intermediate lifters.
WATCH: Darden Q&A From the Compound — Weightlifting for Strongman, D...
Clint answers your questions: Olympic weightlifting for Strongman performance? Sumo or conventional deadlift stance?
WATCH: Table Talk — How Can You Become Part of Team elitefts?
There are a lot of strong lifters in the world. That’s not all we’re looking for.
WATCH: High Volume Back Training with Dave Tate and John Meadows (Full T...
Training in the S4 Compound means knowing when and how to turn up the intensity. In this back session, Dave and John do exactly that.
WATCH: Table Talk — Do Your Genetics Suck?
There’s a way to know if your genetics suck — but not until you’ve given 100%. If you don’t spend enough time trying, you’ll never know.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
WATCH: Hartman Explains Dairy, Vegetables, and Eggs for Physique Competi...
These three areas of diet are debated frequently and fervently. Here is an established position and explanation by someone who has experimented with himself and others.
WATCH: Table Talk — Curing Common Powerlifter Pain
Biceps and triceps tendonitis are among the most likely aches to plague competitive powerlifters. Here are several go-to ways to manage these and other common tendon and joint overuse injuries.
WATCH: Expert Bench Press Troubleshooting with Casey Williams, Dave Tate...
As he aims to take his 540-pound bench up to 600, Casey is employing the help of these veteran coaches. Watch as he learns the adjustments needed to keep pushing forward.
WATCH: Table Talk — How Much Is elitefts Worth?
This company has never existed to compete with Company A, B, or C. If you own your own business, you need to understand your culture and evaluate how that translates to a dollar value.
WATCH: Table Talk — How Can Powerlifting Become Nationally Televised?
Would powerlifting be more popular if it were in the Olympics? What if ESPN aired National Championships?
WATCH: Casey Williams' Bench Methods and 12-Week Raw Program
These 6-week max effort and 4-week dynamic effort waves have taken Casey’s raw bench to 540 pounds. Watch as he explains his approach to chasing 600 and how you can use his methods yourself.
WATCH: Chris Duffin Interviews New 220 All-Time Record Holder Jeremy Ham...
The best 220-pound raw lifter in the world opens up about his training and what it takes to capture an all-time record.
WATCH: S4 Weekend Training at elitefts w/ Squat Strip Puke Set
What started as a coaching weekend turned into a group training session for elitefts team members.
WATCH: Table Talk — Dave Tate's Best Fat Man Story
I can understand how you can squat, bench, and deadlift as a fatass. The real question is, how do you survive?
WATCH: Training Chest at elitefts Compound with Dave Tate
I’m still learning how to train like a bodybuilder in my current cycle. Here’s the full workout and everything Dave taught me this week.
WATCH: Table Talk — What Are the Best Core Exercises?
You should be doing core exercises as part of your warm-up and as part of your accessory work on certain training days. Are you doing the right ones?
WATCH: Table Talk — Bodily Stress and Increasing Range of Motion After A...
Coming off a debilitating injury, respect your body’s range of motion and only push the limits when the time is right. You’re on your way back, don’t blow it now.
WATCH: The Meathead Mobility Series
The specific practices demonstrated and discussed in these videos improve power transfer and increase distal mobility through focus on proximal stability.
WATCH: Into The Void Documentary
Within those seconds, between with the chalk box and the bar, that’s what I’m talking about. That’s the void.
WATCH: Into The Void
This is pain that you crave, because the load you’ve been carrying all your life is now resting on your back — and you have the power to smash it.
WATCH: The Red Flags of Online Coaching
Everything you’re seeing online is a mirage. How do you filter through all the bullshit?
WATCH: Come Train and Learn with Legend Steve Goggins on September 26th
This training camp with Steve is set up with a limited attendance and a non-formal format. We designed it with this format so you can learn all you can from Steve and so that Steve can help tap into what YOU need to do to become better.
WATCH: Hypertrophy Circuits for Athletes in a Team Setting
Offering a standardized program of muscle-building protocols can keep your athletes engaged and motivated to complete the training demands.
WATCH: Rapid Fire Table Talk— MRV, Staying Competitive, and Coffin Dragger
Dave answers your questions from Instagram in 15 seconds or less.
WATCH: 1,000 Videos and Growing — The elitefts YouTube Channel
As our content department continues to grow and deliver industry-leading material, stay up-to-date on all of our multimedia productions.
WATCH: Have You Ever Felt Your Passion Slip Away?
It’s not going to be easy to accomplish your goals. When your will to achieve starts to fade, what will you do?
WATCH: Pre-Workout Circuits to Optimize Training Time and Maximize Perfo...
Training a high number of athletes in a limited number of time poses unique problems for timing and extensive warm-ups. Use these quick and efficient protocols to streamline team workouts.
WATCH: JL Holdsworth Defines the Culture of The Spot Athletics
It is no accident that The Spot Athletics has a distinct persona in the sports performance industry; JL and his coaches have worked hard to establish precisely the training facility they want for their clients.
WATCH: Table Talk—OH CRAP! Edition
I realized this week that I made a huge mistake in my last table talk video…this is for the female lifters I left out.
LISTEN: High-Frequency Training and the Science That Supports It
Scott Stevenson details the scholarly and bodybuilding principles that formed his high-frequency training philosophy.
WATCH: My Worst Injury in Powerlifting
Injuries suck, but we all get them. It’s part of the game. But there’s one injury that kept me out of the gym for months at a time. The doctor told me I’d never bench over 400 pounds again. He was wrong.
WATCH: Dissecting the Kettlebell Snatch
The Whethams team up on camera again to bring another technical breakdown of a fundamental Kettlebell movement.
WATCH: Cleveland Cavaliers Head Strength Coach Derek Millender
There is a lesson of loyalty and leadership to be learned from the journey of Derek Millender.
WATCH: What Makes the Texas Squat Bar So Special?
Listen to Clint Darden and learn all of the features that really matter for you, the lifter.
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.
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.
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
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.
WATCH: Passion Trumps Everything
Human potential is a lot higher than we think it is. It has always been higher.
Old School elitefts Training Motivation
Looking for motivation? We’ve got exactly the training footage you need.
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.
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.
WATCH: A Better Way to Train High School Athletes
A year-round training solution for the multi-sport athletes.