WATCH: Dugdale UGSS Presentation — Guarding Your Central Nervous System
WATCH: Dugdale UGSS Presentation — Guarding Your Central Nervous System
The first part of training for longevity is ensuring that your body’s central nervous system can adequately handle the demands of your program.
WATCH: Table Talk with Mark Dugdale — Exercise Execution, Pre-Workout Food, and Recoverability
WATCH: Table Talk with Mark Dugdale — Exercise Execution, Pre-Workout Fo...
Mark and Dave share their combined knowledge in both powerlifting and bodybuilding, gained from multiple decades honing their respective crafts.
WATCH: Dugdale UGSS Presentation — Fats, Blood Sugar, and Macronutrients
WATCH: Dugdale UGSS Presentation — Fats, Blood Sugar, and Macronutrients
You know the importance of protein, carbohydrates, and fats, but are you overlooking the finer details such as fiber and what types of fats are best?
WATCH: Dugdale UGSS Presentation — Bodybuilding History and Nutrition for Improved Health
WATCH: Dugdale UGSS Presentation — Bodybuilding History and Nutrition fo...
Performing best, and especially looking your best for the sport of bodybuilding, requires that your body be functioning well on the inside. Mark shares how he has accomplished this throughout his career.
WATCH: Mountain Dog Back and Biceps with Mark Dugdale
WATCH: Mountain Dog Back and Biceps with Mark Dugdale
The following details my secondary back workout. I slightly deviated from the plan because the workout took place at the elitefts Compound and Dave Tate took over the biceps programming portion.
WATCH: Open UGSS with Mark Dugdale — Presentation Points
WATCH: Open UGSS with Mark Dugdale — Presentation Points
Eat your olives. Earn your carbs. Make a priority list. Most of your stuff is garage sale material.
Open UGSS Preview with Mark Dugdale
Open UGSS Preview with Mark Dugdale
The weights have been lifted. The muscles are swollen with blood. The seminar can now begin.
My Favorite Intensity Techniques
My Favorite Intensity Techniques
Moving increasingly heavier weight from point A to B served me well until I tore my pec benching 500 pounds and blew out my lower back squatting 700. Now I find new ways to add intensity.
7 Ways to Optimize Health
7 Ways to Optimize Health
If you’re seeking advice on how to successfully navigate a mid-life crisis, I’m probably not the guy. I am, however, uniquely attuned to my body from years of competing at a high level of bodybuilding.
Coming Soon - Mark Dugdale UGSS Event
Coming Soon - Mark Dugdale UGSS Event
Mark wants to know what YOU would like him to speak about in his Special Presentation! Please take a few seconds to let us know....
Family-Owned Business Lessons from Garden Fresh Foods
Family-Owned Business Lessons from Garden Fresh Foods
With nearly 17 years of business ownership under my belt, I’m willing to admit I don’t possess all the answers. However, Garden Fresh Foods continues to thrive.
2016 Olympia 212 Showdown Report
2016 Olympia 212 Showdown Report
In four months, I tasted the emotional joy of winning and then the character-shaping process of dealing with missed expectations.
Who’s the Greatest?
Who’s the Greatest?
It’s more than athletic prowess or shredded muscularity that flows with beautiful symmetry and balance.
The Five Factors of Being Stage Ready
The Five Factors of Being Stage Ready
After back-to-back-to-back wins, Mark Dugdale is sharing his methods for making sure he is stage ready on show day.
Maximizing Muscle Growth Q&A: Rep Ranges, Chest Size Without Heavy Pressing, and Core Lift Rotation
Maximizing Muscle Growth Q&A: Rep Ranges, Chest Size Without Heavy P...
You have questions, team elitefts has answers. Today’s topic: building muscle through rep ranges and exercise selection.
Intra-Workout Nutrition Q&A: BCAAs, HBCD, and Supplements on a Budget
Intra-Workout Nutrition Q&A: BCAAs, HBCD, and Supplements on a Budget
You have questions, team elitefts has answers. Today’s topic: intra-workout supplementation.
IFBB Arctic Pro 212 — My First Pro Win
IFBB Arctic Pro 212 — My First Pro Win
If nothing else, this show proved I still have something left in the tank at 41 years of age.
The Diet of an IFBB Pro Six Weeks Out
The Diet of an IFBB Pro Six Weeks Out
This is a practical example of exactly what I ate during the sixth week before hitting the contest stage. Why is this important to you? Because it pushes right up to that life sucks and I hate dieting threshold.
Passion vs Zeal — Reconsidering What Matters Most
Passion vs Zeal — Reconsidering What Matters Most
If passion most closely relates to desire, then zeal implies action. I often say I’m passionate about training, but in reality I possess more of a zeal for the iron.
Calves to Cows — 5 Methods to Improve Your Calf Development
Calves to Cows — 5 Methods to Improve Your Calf Development
You can’t easily change the shape or insertion of the lateral or medial head of the gastrocnemius muscles. But you can develop impressive calves with these techniques.
Defending Margins
Defending Margins
You might think I’m talking about business. I’m not. I’m talking about something much more important.
Building Bigger Biceps — A Five-Step Guide
Building Bigger Biceps — A Five-Step Guide
What was once a weak point has become a strength of my physique. Whether you’re doing ‘curls for the girls’ or to help your front double biceps pose, here are five things you need to know.
Foundational Guiding Principles
Foundational Guiding Principles
Nobody who is serious about forward progress enters the gym without a plan, without a set of guiding principles. I’ll argue the same is true in life.
Three Pounds Heavier: The Holiday Struggle
Three Pounds Heavier: The Holiday Struggle
Minimize the consequences when you enjoy time with your family and eat good food this holiday season. These tips help me every year.
Broken Idols
Broken Idols
Be careful who you place on a pedestal. The ramifications may leave you highly devastated.
Graston Technique: My Experience with Instrument-Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization
Graston Technique: My Experience with Instrument-Assisted Soft Tissue Mo...
As a bodybuilder, I frequently abuse my body through training. I had heard of the benefits of Graston for years and finally decided to give it a chance to treat several specific issues.
The Power of Patience
The Power of Patience
If you want to rise to the top in bodybuilding, you have to start at the bottom. These ideas about gratification and perspective will help you on the climb.
A Back Complex To Stimulate Recovery
A Back Complex To Stimulate Recovery
Mark Dugdale takes us through a simple yet effective recovery complex he uses during back training.
Cambered Bar Shrugs For Mountainous Traps
Cambered Bar Shrugs For Mountainous Traps
Traptimus Prime. Trapsquatch. Triceratraps. Trapasaurus Flex. Trap Lord. Trappleberry Finn. Traptain America. Whoever you want to be, this will get those muscle mounds growing like a Chia-pet.
The Pursuit of Likes: Why Women Should Save Competition for the Stage
The Pursuit of Likes: Why Women Should Save Competition for the Stage
Beautiful women, so what’s your Instagram account look like? Selfie-fest? Pushing the limits of skin exposure?
elitefts™ Reverse Band Hack Squats
elitefts™ Reverse Band Hack Squats
John Meadows performs a Hack Squat with a Reverse Band alteration. Add Hack Squat to your training regime and also incorporate band or chain variations.
My Years with HIT
My Years with HIT
When I started bodybuilding, I looked up to Dorian Yates, so I trained like him. And it worked.
Over-Analysis and Training Effort
Over-Analysis and Training Effort
There's an overestimation that a wildly "smart" program will deliver some unprecedented form of results.
WATCH: Mark Dugdale Reposts Teaser Trailer from 2006 Documentary DRIVEN
WATCH: Mark Dugdale Reposts Teaser Trailer from 2006 Documentary DRIVEN
Before joining team elitefts, Mark Dugdale had already premiered more than one full-length documentary about life as a bodybuilder.
Masculinity and the Growth of a Man
Masculinity and the Growth of a Man
Possessing a penis doesn’t make you a man.
WATCH: 11 Triceps Variations for Massive Arms
WATCH: 11 Triceps Variations for Massive Arms
Target all three triceps heads and construct mammoth, balanced, powerful arms with these movements from Team elitefts.
EPOC—The Secret to Fat Destruction
EPOC—The Secret to Fat Destruction
After years of competing as an IFBB pro, Dugdale has learned what will keep you thick while you shed fat.
The Daily Diet of an IFBB Pro
The Daily Diet of an IFBB Pro
A detailed look at my off-season menu.
The Food Philosophy of an IFBB Pro
The Food Philosophy of an IFBB Pro
Fill your cart with stuff that's smart.
Marriage and Muscle
Marriage and Muscle
How I balance love and life to stay engaged in the things that matter.
Mark Dugdale Places Second At 2014 Phoenix Europa
Mark Dugdale’s Posing Routine at the 2014 Phoenix Europa
Mark Dugdale Places Second At 2014 Phoenix Europa
Mark Dugdale Places Second At 2014 Phoenix Europa
Mark Dugdale's Posing Routine at the 2014 Phoenix Europa.
Commitment for Bodybuilding
Commitment for Bodybuilding
This one component in your life will affect your success than any other factor.
A Better Joy Than Envy
A Better Joy Than Envy
Do you want to be the guy with bigger biceps, the guy who sleeps with more girls, the guy who pounds more beer and drives the faster car?
Bradford (Over and Back) Press
Bradford (Over and Back) Press
Mark Dugdale demonstrates how to perform an Over and Back Press
MAG Grip Chain Extensions
MAG Grip Chain Extensions
Mark Dugdale demonstrates how to perform Chain Extensions with a MAG Grip attachment
Bulgarian Split Squats
Bulgarian Split Squats
Mark Dugdale demonstrates how to perform a brutal drop set of Bulgarian Split Squats
Elitefts™ Banded Leg Press
Elitefts™ Banded Leg Press
Mark Dugdale demonstrates how to increase tension on the vastus lateralis by using Elitefts™ Pro Light Resistance Bands on the leg press.
The Gift of Guidance
The Gift of Guidance
What is the intention behind your advice?
Transitional Antagonistic Arm Training Block
Transitional Antagonistic Arm Training Block
I explain the logic of how I'm transitioning from my current post-contest shape to prep for the Olympia.
Mark Dugdale's Last Week Conditioning Hacks
Mark Dugdale's Last Week Conditioning Hacks
When it becomes time to step on stage, these tips and tricks add the final bit of refinement to a pro-level champion.
Seven Juicy Dieting Morsels
Seven Juicy Dieting Morsels
Seven things to consider when going to that dark and lonely place called dieting.
Metabolic Pump and Explosive Complexes
Metabolic Pump and Explosive Complexes
Try these extra workouts for bigger gains.
Eight Things I Learned from Dorian Yates
Eight Things I Learned from Dorian Yates
Those of us that believe we have nothing to learn from others are doomed to limit our progress. Here is what I picked up while spending a week in the dungeon with Dorian Yates.
Iron Legacy: What Are Your Priorities?
Iron Legacy: What Are Your Priorities?
Answering these questions will simplify your life.
Iron Legacy: Good Joints
Iron Legacy: Good Joints
Good joints, not the kind you smoke, are vital for bodybuilding.
Choose Your Iron Legacy
Choose Your Iron Legacy
No matter your beginning, you can always choose to leave an honorable legacy.

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