This month’s featured program is great for those who’ve recently finished training for a contest and are getting into the nitty-gritty of off-season training. It’ll keep your gains coming in at a steady pace, improve your base strength, and help you peak while training for your next contest.
Don’t get sidetracked by paying attention to insignificant details and meaningless methods. Learn to distinguish between what matters and what doesn’t.
You’ve been away from the gym, but now you’re back. With some intelligent programming you can resume training in such a way that you’ll be blowing through your old numbers without ever getting stuck.
The first thing that you need to do is decide on what your limiting factors are: time, equipment, physical abilities, skill, and audience.
These eight rules of contest promotion are vital to your event’s success and your athletes’ satisfaction. Do it right and they’ll be back next time.
This step-by-step guide (with video) demonstrates how a strongman competitor can use this unique technique to increase efficiency and performance in the log clean and press.
There are few things you can control at a strongman competition. Pace is one of them.
That extra push each competitor needs doesn’t always come from the place you’d most expect it. Sometimes it comes from Iron Mike.
You inevitably need to change up what you’re doing after stalled progress. What do you change? How do you go about deciding what to keep and what to remove?
Unlike other strength sports, your weight class dictates the implements you’ll use to compete in Strongman. Here’s how to know if and when to cut weight.
An elite level competitor shares the major factors that have influenced his training.
Follow these principles of program design to build the muscular abilities that were untrained for your previous strength sport.
Beware of these injury warning signs and adjust your training program to adhere to your body’s needs.
Looking to get the most out of your time between competitions? This program provides guidance on how to lay out your strongman training.
Turn a jerkity stagger into a confident cakewalk. I ain't yokin'.
Which of these three progress-sapping categories do you fall in?
That stack of bottomless pancakes you had for breakfast won't taste so good coming up after the medley.
The newest elitefts columnist breaks down how to get started in strongman.