5/3/1 for Strongman: Programming Adjustments, Competition Prep, and Training Tips
5/3/1 for Strongman: Programming Adjustments, Competition Prep, and Trai...

Take the core philosophies of 5/3/1, make two key adjustments in exercise selection and timed AMRAP sets, and you’ve got yourself a damn good strongman program.

5/3/1 and Run
5/3/1 and Run

Concurrent training, commonly known as hybrid training, can be a frustratingly fine line to walk. Here’s the recipe.

Conjugate For A Little Old Man
Conjugate For A Little Old Man

People have asked me to write about how I train. I haven’t done it because I figured you guys thought it’d be boring… until now. Here’s a look at my training and the process behind it.

Introducing New elitefts Athlete Dan Dalenberg
Introducing New elitefts Athlete Dan Dalenberg

Dan Dalenberg found his way through life with the help of fellow powerlifters. As a Team elitefts athlete, he intends to give back to the community by passing on information he’s learned from those who got him through his lowest points.

LISTEN: Table Talk Podcast #3 with Jim Wendler
LISTEN: Table Talk Podcast #3 with Jim Wendler

In this episode of Table Talk Podcast, Dave Tate and Jim Wendler talk about a couple of documentaries, majoring in exercise science, the best way to break down the conjugate method, and more.

Your First Meet Cycle — How to Lay the Program's Foundation
Your First Meet Cycle — How to Lay the Program's Foundation

Don’t be the newbie lifter who falls into the tiger pit traps during your training cycle. That’ll only hurt you in the long run — or at least in those first competitions. Don’t be afraid to start training too light and save your attempts for the platform. Not enough advice? I’ve got six other tips, so read on…

How to Train While Working a Physical Job — Create Your Program
How to Train While Working a Physical Job — Create Your Program

Once you go through these seven steps, you should have a nice simple program that will allow you to reach your goals while staying true to your priorities and meshing with your daily work demands.

Reasons Why You're Weak — Inefficient Technique, Outcome-Focused, Micro-Managing, Online, and Over-Thinking
Reasons Why You're Weak — Inefficient Technique, Outcome-Focused, M...

Without question, the number one reason most lifters don’t lift the weights that they are able to is…

Ego Is the Enemy
Ego Is the Enemy

Let me introduce you to a young gentleman from my gym. Like a lot of inexperienced lifters, he didn’t understand what it really means to keep your nose to the grindstone.

Training Advice Worth Repeating
Training Advice Worth Repeating

If I could go back in time to when I first started in this industry, I’d force myself to follow these five rules of training. Those of you starting now should listen.

Fun Is for Children
Fun Is for Children

I have some grown up advice for your training: start training like an adult and quit worrying about whether or not it’s fun. This program actually produces results, and in my book, results are a hell of a lot more fun than feel-good training.

WATCH: Jim Wendler's UGSS Introduction — Earn the Barbell, Training Philosophy, and Industry Trends
WATCH: Jim Wendler's UGSS Introduction — Earn the Barbell, Training...

This video is Jim’s full 20-minute introduction to his UGSS presentation.

WATCH: Dave and Jim Are Back
WATCH: Dave and Jim Are Back

There’s a lot of history shared between these two men. Now they’re adding to it.

5 Strategic Questions Everyone Should Ask About Their Training
5 Strategic Questions Everyone Should Ask About Their Training

When moments of failure start to cloud your perspective of training, you need to return to your core philosophy. Asking these questions will force you to refocus on the big picture.

Implementing 5/3/1 Principles in a Conjugated Program
Implementing 5/3/1 Principles in a Conjugated Program

These options can help you combine the best parts of Wendler’s program with your regular routine of max effort and dynamic effort training.

Maximum Effort Training for the Front Seven
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.

WATCH: Who Would Jim Wendler Train with for a Powerlifting Meet?
WATCH: Who Would Jim Wendler Train with for a Powerlifting Meet?
Louie Simmons? Ed Coan? Steve Goggins? Brian Shaw?
Back from the Dead: Starting Over with Jim Wendler
Back from the Dead: Starting Over with Jim Wendler

My journey from hospital bed to Jim Wendler’s power rack started with one decision: to do what the doctors said I couldn’t.

Building Pure Strength With Jim Wendler
Building Pure Strength With Jim Wendler
Wendlers program will turn you from a boy into a man. Grow a beard and get strong Wendler's way.
Avoid Newbie Pitfalls
Avoid Newbie Pitfalls

You may be a beginner, but you don't have to make the mistakes of one.

Twelve-Week Explosive Bench Program
Twelve-Week Explosive Bench Program

Drive that bar off your chest like you’re wearing a C4-laced bench shirt.

Programming Predicaments
Programming Predicaments

When designing programs, don’t follow any blind allegiance to a certain template.

Understanding the Principles Behind Programming
Understanding the Principles Behind Programming

It is not the percentages in 5/3/1, or the use of bands in Westside training that make these programs special.

Back to Training
Back to Training

Bob Youngs is back.

Are You a Program Hopper?
Are You a Program Hopper?

She only gave the program SIX MONTHS before scrapping it.

Improving Pullups
Improving Pullups

This method will have him doing more pullups quickly.

Reprogramming the Overhead Press
Reprogramming the Overhead Press

The body has the amazing ability to adapt to any stimulus. This can be a bad thing when it comes to training.

I'm Too Young to Be This Damn Old: Training Update
I'm Too Young to Be This Damn Old: Training Update

What the hell could this old man have discovered that is not already known?

Training Logs: Do More Than Just Track
Training Logs: Do More Than Just Track

Remember in math class when your teacher told you to show your work? Well, you need to do it again.

I'm Too Young to Be This Damn Old: Baby Steps
I'm Too Young to Be This Damn Old: Baby Steps

He’s back…and he’s getting ready to take the platform!

Ten Training Principles from the Art of War
Ten Training Principles from the Art of War

Training is a daily battle in which our will and desire are tested.

Kentucky Strong: How Do You Get Your Girl to Train?
Kentucky Strong: How Do You Get Your Girl to Train?

Getting your girlfriend or wife interested in training can be a real challenge, so I figured I’d get more than one opinion on this issue.

Elitefts Classic: 52 Most Common 5/3/1 Questions
Elitefts Classic: 52 Most Common 5/3/1 Questions

You’ve read the book, you know the program. Here’s how to perfect it.

Getting Ripped with Lymphoma
Getting Ripped with Lymphoma

Of course, I don’t recommend lymphoma as a method for getting ripped.

Take the Leap
Take the Leap

Where you start has little effect on where you will end—that’s completely up to you.

Kentucky Strong: 5/3/1 for Strongman
Kentucky Strong: 5/3/1 for Strongman

It is a basic program, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t work.

Calories Redux (Bulking and Cutting for the Natural Athlete)
Calories Redux (Bulking and Cutting for the Natural Athlete)

Think you have to gain mass before you can add lean muscle? Think again.

A Multifaceted Approach to Pull-Up Improvement
A Multifaceted Approach to Pull-Up Improvement

Barring injury, everyone should be able to do at least ten quality pull-ups.

Breaking Down Your Training Program
Breaking Down Your Training Program

Having a problem with your programming? Jennifer Petrosino can break it down for you.

Deadlifts, Chains, and Good Mornings
Deadlifts, Chains, and Good Mornings

Once again, Jennifer Petrosino is ready and willing to help answer your questions.

Training and DL Advice for a Bicep Nation Hopeful
Training and DL Advice for a Bicep Nation Hopeful

Darden really IS the deadlift go-to guy.

5/3/1 and 40
5/3/1 and 40

A training program is not “one size fits all.” As Jesse Rosenberger discovered, you will have your own keepers, mistakes, preferences, and throwbacks.

Like a Fox
Like a Fox

Clint, when is it time to leave one girl for another?

Master Your Goals
Master Your Goals

During the last couple years, I’ve seen a very welcome change in the mindset of many guys and gals entering the gym.

Did you hear the one about the…
Did you hear the one about the…

Did you hear the one about the guy that gets 200lbs out of his bench shirt?

My Experience with Strength Training in the Military
My Experience with Strength Training in the Military

Sometimes I would question what kept me going back to train; I rarely set a new record.

Strength: What Are You Going to Do with Yours?
Strength: What Are You Going to Do with Yours?

I’m going to push through that ache in my hips, that sting in my shoulder, and get that damn PR.

If You Won’t Take the Medicine, Don’t Ask for the Prescription
If You Won’t Take the Medicine, Don’t Ask for the Prescription

Imagine going to the doctor to get attention for an illness, receiving a drug prescription from the doctor, and tearing it up and throwing it in his face because you don’t take prescription drugs.

Squat Like the Man You were Designed to Be
Squat Like the Man You were Designed to Be

Believe me, your training will all of a sudden be turned into another kind of important.

Wanna Lift? Meet Me at the…Playground
Wanna Lift? Meet Me at the…Playground

You don’t have to be completely regimented and stick to the script session after session with your program.

More Tips for the Raw Lifter
More Tips for the Raw Lifter

These tips can help steer you in the right direction, but they aren’t any substitute for common sense and hard work.

A Twist on 5/3/1 for a Recovering Weightlifter
A Twist on 5/3/1 for a Recovering Weightlifter

I don’t take any credit for this but instead give credit to the mind who published his idea for the 5/3/1 program—Jim Wendler.

Five Things Bodybuilders Can Learn from Powerlifters, Part 1
Five Things Bodybuilders Can Learn from Powerlifters, Part 1

No matter what niche your lifting passion falls into, there are a few universal truths on which every lifter can agree.

6 Things I’ve Learned So Far This Season
6 Things I’ve Learned So Far This Season

We’re just over halfway through the season with twenty-two games played and, if successful in the playoffs, the prospect of sixteen more without any time off for good behavior.

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