Conjugate Method for Tactical Strength and Conditioning
The conjugate method runs like a well-oiled machine for the tactile athlete who needs to fulfill a wide-range of on-the-job tasks.
The Beginner's Guide to Conjugate and Concurrent Training Systems
It’s a system, not a program. It can be tailored to suit whatever your goals are: powerlifting, athletics, CrossFit, marathon running… You name it, and this system can’t be beaten. This article is meant to show beginner powerlifters how to set up their own conjugate-based program.
A Different Look at the Dynamic Effort Method for Athletes
Why not do speed work with the movements that your athletes will see in their sport?
The Dynamic Effort Method with Beginners
Many people will say, “Don’t do it with beginners” and it’s a good thing I’m somewhat anti-establishment because DEM has been a great tool in the development of a lot of beginner-athletes. The simple answer is: just do it.
WATCH: Training After Westside
What type of training comes after years of lifting in the world’s strongest gym, with the sole goal of moving as much weight as possible?
Dynamic Effort and Practical Application to Football Sports Performance
In layman’s terms, dynamic effort can be described as fast, explosive movement. This seems simple, but many people get lost between “fast and explosive” and “movement.”
A Calloused Hands Guide to Conjugate Training for the Beginning and Inte...
My main goal for this article is to make the vast bodies of work on conjugate more digestible and more easily applicable to what is popular now: raw powerlifting.
The Force-Velocity Profile: Reversing Imbalances Using the Dynamic Effor...
Last summer I was able to perform some informal research on 10 Division II football athletes examining how to reverse imbalances found in force-velocity profiling using velocity based training with a Tendo Unit and accommodating resistance.
WATCH: Blast from the Past — Five Biggest Bench Mistakes
The most common mistakes in the bench press haven’t changed much over the years.
5 Ways You’re Screwing Up Speed Work
Commit too many of the mistakes I’m about to present to you and your training will result in zero results. You certainly wont be getting the desired effect of optimizing force development.
Maximum Effort Training for the Front Seven
Using this three-step approach, strengthen, motivate and challenge a team to excel in the sport of football.
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.
Setting Up Westside for the Raw Lifter
With a program based on adapting to your weaknesses and strengths, this article explains how to customize your training for raw lifters.
A Lion in Iron: There Can Be Only One!
We are not all immortals and this is not a quickening, so why has everyone drawn their swords?
How to Use the Dynamic Effort Method to Increase Your Overhead Press
If your shoulders are giving you problems, but you still want to work on your overhead press, you need to give this a try.
2000 elitefts™ Strength Seminar, Parts 23 & 24
This is part twenty-three and twenty-four of the original elitefts™ Tour De Force Strength Training Seminar (video). We will be posting all parts of this seminar so keep checking back.
Monster Drinks May Kill You, But This Won’t
A geyser of energy drink erupted from my nostrils as I read an article from the Huffington Post claiming that Monster Drinks may be linked to five deaths.
2000 elitefts™ Strength Seminar, Parts 17 & 18
This is part seventeen and eighteen of the original elitefts™ Tour De Force Strength Training Seminar (video). We will be posting all parts of this seminar so keep checking back.
2000 elitefts™ Strength Seminar, Parts 15 & 16
This is part fifteen and sixteen of the original elitefts™ Tour De Force Strength Training Seminar (video). We will be posting all parts of this seminar so keep checking back.
2000 elitefts™ Strength Seminar, Parts 11 & 12
This is part eleven and twelve of the original elitefts™ Tour De Force Strength Training Seminar (video). We will be posting all parts of this seminar so keep checking back.
2000 elitefts™ Strength Seminar Part 9 & 10
This is part nine and ten of the original elitefts™ Tour De Force Strength Training Seminar (video). We will be posting all parts of this seminar so keep checking back.
2000 elitefts™ Strength Seminar Part 8
This is part eight of the original elitefts™ Tour De Force Strength Training Seminar (video). We will be posting all parts of this seminar so keep checking back.
2000 elitefts™ Strength Seminar (Part 7)
This is part seven of the original elitefts™ Tour De Force Strength Training Seminar (video). We will be posting all parts of this seminar so keep checking back.
2000 elitefts™ Strength Seminar Part 6
This is part six of the original elitefts™ Tour De Force Strength Training Seminar (video). We will be posting all parts of this seminar so keep checking back.
2000 elitefts™ Strength Seminar Part 5
This is part five of the original elitefts™ Tour De Force Strength Training Seminar (video). We will be posting all parts of this seminar so keep checking back.
2000 elitefts™ Strength Seminar Part 4
This is part four of the original elitefts™ Tour De Force Strength Training Seminar (video). We will be posting all parts of this seminar so keep checking back.
2000 elitefts™ Strength Seminar Part 2
This is part two of the original Tour De Force Training Seminar (video). We will be posting all parts of this seminar so keep checking back.
2000 elitefts™ Strength Seminar Part 1
This is part one of the original Tour De Force Training Seminar (video). We will be posting all parts of this seminar so keep checking back.
By the Coach For the Coach: Using the Dynamic Effort Method Dynamically
As with anything in this profession, we’re only limited by our imagination, so please feel free to show me how you add DE work into your programs.
EFS Pro Short Band Strength
Bands were first introduced to Dave Tate close to 10 years ago. After experimenting with accommodating resistance and the use of chains, Dave took his squat from 760 to 855 in 12 months.
