Living and Training as a Bipolar Narcoleptic: Lack of Sleep and Depression
It is difficult to reach the top of any sport within a hyper-competitive atmosphere. It is even more difficult with depression and sleep complications.
How to Measure Rack Height and Gear Size
Measure twice, squat once, and be on your way to a heavier total with the right gear and the correct rack height.
The Truth About Energy Systems (Part 2)
The breakdown of food and the conversion of nutrients to energy coincides with the body's regulation of multiple energy systems.
Ken Whetham Becomes Newest Elitefts Columnist
Regular contributor and powerlifting champion Ken Whetham has earned his spot with elitefts.
The Search for Meaning
How you spend your time on this earth determines what you define as meaningful. Does your lifestyle reflect your vision?
A Push-Up Is Not Just a Push-Up
This typical throw-away, punishment exercise is in fact a highly-technical skill capable of teaching and reinforcing proper movement patterns.
7 Meet-Day Tactics for Putting Together Your Best Total
You've spent days, weeks, and months preparing for the meet. These tips will ensure your efforts were not in vain.
A Bodybuilder's Take on the Bands and Chains Trend
If you use bands and chains your social media following may grow, but will your muscles?
10 Raw Training Adjustments to Make Westside Methods Work for You
With these tweaks to the most electrifying training program of our time, you will be able to master the Raw Revolution.
The Firefit Combat Challenge: The Toughest Two Minutes in Sports
I adjusted my powerlifting and kettlebell training to adapt to the needs of this highly-intensive challenge.
Wake Up and Build Your Muscles with Preactivation Techniques
Stuck sitting at a desk all day? Try these movements and tips to wake up those sleepy muscles.
Catapult to Host Women's Training Clinic
For the first time in the industry, Catapult will be holding an event specifically designed for sports professionals that work in women's sports.
Torso Training for Maximal Performance
This four-week core-development program will enhance your stability, optimize your posture, and allow your body to function how it is meant to.
A Mother's Guide to Postpartum Weight Training
Child-bearing takes as toll on the body. You need to know how to recover after pregnancy.
Seeing the Big Picture with your Training and Nutrition
How to understand and breakdown the complexities of your food intake for better weight management.
Throw Out Your Expectations
Avoiding hostility and disinterest by following these communication tips will result in greater engagement and child development.
Scientific–Methodological Aspects of Training the Kazakhstan Select Team
High results in weightlifting necessitate the search for new methodical approaches to enhance the effectiveness of training, especially in time for the most important competitions.
Happy Valentine's Day - Training & SH*T
Happy Valentine's Day the elitefts Way. Live, Learn (Love) and Pass On.
Pull/Push/Squat Loading Matrix
NEO: "What is the Matrix?" TRINITY: "The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you if you want it to."
WATCH: We Lift Metal, We Listen to Metal, and Most of Us Wear Metal
The very first elitefts music video.
Duffin Joins Efferding and Spoto for Las Vegas Training
The World's Strongest Bodybuilder makes his statement on Chris Duffin: The Mad Scientist of Powerlifting.
Matt Wenning's Extreme Squat Training Cycle
The 15-week squat cycle that built an equipped world record.
Open Letter to Aspiring Gym Owners
My top-10 components for what I feel can contribute to the success of a real powerlifting gym.
Live What You Love!
Motivation is the inner power or energy that pushes toward acting, performing actions and achieving. -
#BM Motivation
Live What You Love!
Motivation is the inner power or energy that pushes toward acting, performing actions and achieving. -
#BM Motivation
TRAINING THROUGH THE AGES!!
...and by the bastardization of their god called "science and evidence", those people grew small and weak"
The Team elitefts Original Soundtrack
What does it take to crank your training intensity? Team elitefts goes all Siskel & Ebert on that.
WATCH: How Schwab Developed His Training Philosophy
The Minimalist Method: Keep what is useful, discard that which is not.
Off-Site Training: Considerations for Training Children with Special Needs
If done incorrectly, leaving the comfort of the traditional training environment can become chaotic. These basic guidelines will make it a positive experience.
How to Kick Ass in a One-Car Garage
Move that Ford Escort to the driveway, toss that box of old high school trophies in the trash; it’s time to get serious.
Strongman Conditioning: How to Finish at the Top
Remember the five Ds: Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, and Dodge.
MAG Grip Chain Extensions
Mark Dugdale demonstrates how to perform Chain Extensions with a MAG Grip attachment
Training Complexes to Shatter Plateaus
Post-Activation Potentiation will add some spring to your static strength, produce new slabs of muscle, and develop a powerful physique.
Training for the Skinny Teen
The only way I ended my skinny teen status was by turning 20. Don’t make the same mistake.
Using Gear to Overload Your Raw Strength
If you aren’t wising up to the value of gear for raw lifting, Joe will choke you out with a pair of Krait Knee Wraps.
How Becoming a Father Changed My Training and Nutrition
Are family obligations reasonable excuses to slack on your gym goals or do they reinforce your reason for becoming your best?
Motivation From Within
How far would you push yourself when you believe the only person who will ever know is you?
Three-Way Matrix Upper Body Hypertrophy Emphasis
If you want to upgrade to a 2XL t-shirt, this program can get that done.
We Are Not Cinderellas
The lessons of success translate from sports, to everyday life, and to lifting.
Strong(her)™ Video Spotlight on IFBB Figure Pro
On a visit to train with Traci Tate, we talked to Jennifer Cordovez about her figure athlete quest.
The Exercise Hierarchy of Effectivity
Whether you like it or not, all exercises are NOT created equal.
Elitefts Classic: 10 Nuggets of Wisdom
If you want to lose fat and do so by diet and increasing your conditioning, is it no wonder you got weaker?
Programming Predicaments
Are you trying so hard to categorize your training under a marketed label that it is no longer optimal for your strength needs?
Powerlifting Is HARD
If you are limited by the work and sacrifice that are required to be a champion, then embrace your mediocrity!