WATCH: Giant Sets with Brian Alsruhe
Brian Alsruhe’s training style is going to be different than what you’d usually see at the elitefts S5 Compound, but that certainly didn’t stop him or Team elitefts athletes from exchanging ideas and having a good time.
12-Week Conjugate Deadlift Cycle for a Raw Lifter
Remember Cody, my client I talked about in my last article about benching? He absolutely destroyed at the Iron City Open and got a 10-pound deadlift PR total. The secret to his success? It’s in this program… because it IS this program.
Meet Attempt Considerations For Every Situation
When it comes to selecting meet attempts, there are a lot of things to take into account. The big one is your goal, but the strategy for getting that goal varies depending on lots of factors. You wouldn’t use the same process for selecting your opener and for winning — at least, I hope you don’t.
20-Week Raw Dog Yoke Program Cycle
To call this program hard is an understatement. The volume is high, the work is heavy, and you’ll want to quit. But I can promise you, your back will never be thicker and your PRs will become something of the past.
How to Progress in Your Strength Program
Ask yourself: “Is my training program based on me being strongest at every session?” If your answer is an honest yes, you might need to reconsider your program. Here’s how you can improve it.
LISTEN: Table Talk Podcast Clip — Jim Wendler's 5 Core Values for T...
Core values are something that Jim… well, values. He’s got core values for every aspect of his life, whether it’s the core values he and his wife share, the core values at work, or core values for training. His fifth core value on the list took him eight years to figure out.
The Three Disciplines of Getting Stronger
How do you continue to progress as a lifter when life gets tougher, progress is slower, and motivation is lacking?
Surviving Max Effort Day
I thought about just putting my workout off until tomorrow. That would have been the smart thing to do.
Reset Your PR's
In a perfect world, you’re always getting stronger and your PR’s are always moving higher. Well, this world isn’t perfect, and you need to remember that if you want to get stronger.
2016 APF Equipped Nationals — Qualifying for WPC Worlds
What I overcame for this meet is far more than I have for any other.
RUM9 Meet Report: Finding My Identity on the Platform
RUM9 is the first meet I stepped onto the platform as an individual with a secure sense of identity as both a PT and athlete. Feelsy meet recap incoming.
An Updated Deadlift Cycle for Average Joes
This 16-week cycle is for gym rats who have been lifting long enough to have good technique but aren’t interested in peaking for a meet.
Finding A Personal Record Through Consistency
Powerlifting is one tool I use to measure my strength. Through relocation, job change, a virus, a motorcycle crash, and children (the list goes on), there’s one thing I learned this past year: consistency.
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?
Choices and Accountability
Your life and your future are yours and yours alone. It’s going to be difficult, but the sooner you take responsibility and stop blaming others for your misfortune, the better your life will be.
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.
It's Not Just Five Pounds: Understanding Personal Records
When you’re chipping away at that all-time PR, every pound matters.
The Powerlifting Experience is Back!
Don't miss out on this unbelievable opportunity. Save the date: June 27th
Greg Everett's Top Five Exercises for the Snatch
Catalyst Athletics's owner give five exercises to help you PR your Snatch
The Freakshow Speaks!
Knockouts and a bench PR were a part of Marshall Johnson's XPC Finals weekend.
WATCH: A Better (or at least more exciting) Bench Setup
On technique, execution, and flare, he gets a 10.
Do Goals Limit Your Success?
If you are breaking PR after PR than maybe your goals are the biggest limit to your success.
Long-term Goal Achieved at 13th Annual USAPL American Open
A record setting bench launched Yard to the third highest total in the USAPL.
4 Simple Ways to Increase Volume
Use these special techniques to boost your volume without crushing your recovery.
What’s the Big Deal About a PR, Anyway?
Recently, I was talking to a friend at the gym, and I heard “I want to end on a good note.” What the f*ck does that mean—end on a good note? Shouldn’t all training sessions end on a good note?
What's the Big Deal About a PR, Anyway?
You want to leave the gym on a good note. Aichs explores what that really means.
Training to Peak for a Meet
After two decades of competing, The M2 Method author has fine-tuned meet prep.
The Long Road to a 900-Pound Bench
At the RPS Battle of Champions: Connecticut State Championships I accomplished a life-long goal.
My Unique Methods for a World Record Squat
Not any old training system will give you an 860 raw squat at 220.
INTRODUCING: The CRATUS Squat Suit
Introducing the best thing to happen to squatting since the squat rack.
10-Week Intermediate Deadlift Program
Having trouble locking out the top of a heavy pull? This program will fix the problem in ten short weeks!
Five Plateau-Busting Bench Press Tips
Corrections to five common bench mistakes that will move you one step closer to your next PR.
A Case for Sanity and Powerlifting, Part 2
There are three fundamental strategies any reasonable athlete or coach can use to choose one’s attempts.
2013 XPC: Ab Cramps and a Big Total
It feels good to reach a goal total and nab several PRs in the process.
A Magical Day
Days that go right may be few and far between, but when you have one like this… it’s just badass.
Scott Yard: Going for Personal and American Records
His main goal at the USAPL North East Regional Championships was to total at least 1,800 pounds, but that doesn’t mean Scott didn’t try to shatter a current American record as well.
The Rough Patch
It seems that when most folk are going through a rough patch in life, lifting gets them through it.
Congrats Dr. Thomas Deebel!
Not only did he have to get stronger as a Masters lifter, he had to do so while cutting weight.
Keck's Column: Strength: Are You Building it, or Just Testing it?
There’s certainly a time and place to test your strength, occasionally in the gym and always on the platform.
A New Bench PR
I have 8 weeks till the Pro-Am, so I hope to get my 800-plus press there. I still have plenty of time.
Warming Up to PRs
What’s keeping you from setting a personal record (PR) in your lifts? Why isn’t your “top end” going up?
Intermediate Madness
As I traverse the bumpy road that leads to elite level lifting, I’ve pondered what things can hasten the journey. Most trainees can rapidly progress from being a beginner to an intermediate level lifter, but many often plateau and never move out of the intermediate phase. This article is designed for the intermediate level lifter, to help them
