This bar brings endless potential to your weight room — but only if used properly. Don’t forget these two cues.

Besides the safety squat bar (SSB) being rounded and not welded, there isn’t much of a difference between the yoke and SSB.

Question 1: I’d like to thank you for all of the helpful tips, but this is where we’re going to crash. As an athlete, I’ve been performing the Olympic lifts since middle school. I use them with the athletes I train from day one and haven’t had any problems.

Thoughts, mostly weird ones, tumble inside my head like sagebrush on the open prairie. So, it should come as no surprise that one day last spring, as I sat and pondered, I conjured up the bright idea to jump out of a 55-gallon barrel.

In our series, “Overcoming Lousy Leverages,” Eric Cressey and I covered all three power lifts and discussed how smart training can lead to bigger totals. In this series, we will discuss the biomechanics behind each lift as well as several strategies to destroy any sticking points you may have. We will examine:

About 12 weeks ago, I started training with a local football player, Caleb Sexton.

As covered in my last article, the dynamic effort (DE) session is dedicated to speed. Max effort (ME) is dedicated to huge weights and re-writing the record books every session you train. My approach is a bit different from the traditional Westside approach.

I just have seen too many people I know become unhappy because their possessions own them, not vice versa

Here are 10 things that will help you plan your workouts and help keep you focused