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The Iron Mindset: Navigating the Mental Battlefield of Major Injury Recovery
Discover the profound mental challenges athletes face when returning from a severe injury and explore actionable strategies to overcome self-doubt, rebuild your identity, and confidently regain your strength.
The elitefts Indoor Sled: How to Get Real Sled Work Done Without Wrecking Your Floor
Most gyms won't let a metal sled touch the floor. This one goes anywhere inside, loads fast, and gives you everything sled training is supposed to deliver
A Beginner's Guide to Building Bulletproof Knees
Going backward with the sled, which places the knee over the toes, allowed the speaker to stop using painkillers for their knees and represents a significant congruency between the training systems of Louis Simmons and Charles Polloquin. This backward dragging technique is beneficial for recovery from knee injuries because it involves concentric movements while removing the eccentric load,.
Blood-Equity and Scarred Steel: The Secret History of the EliteFTS Compound
Take a unique tour of the EliteFTS S5 compound to discover the 30-year history and untold stories behind the gym's most iconic pieces of strength equipment.
Train Your Ass Off 2026
Applications for the 2026 Train Your Ass Off events close March 15th. Here's what past attendees said about it, in their own words.
Culture Shifts And; Humility
The challenge is knowing when to pass that on and when to let someone else learn the hard way. Because sometimes the best lesson isn’t what you tell someone; it’s what you let them experience.
50 Years in the Weight Room by Ashley Jones
A 50-year training recap from Ashley Jones—what works, what doesn’t, and why “program promiscuity” stalls progress—followed by a structured off-season plan using 3-week cycles and progressive intensification.
Ten Rules I Learned Under the Bar (That Have Nothing to Do with Programming)
The gym teaches you more than how to get strong. If you pay attention, it teaches you how to lead, how to think, and who you actually are.
The Death of the Straight Bar? How This Revolutionary "Thin" Design Unlocks Elite Force Production
John Meadows Demonstrates Band Spider Crawls: A Shoulder Warmup Worth Keeping
John Meadows knew how to take care of a body that had been through the wringer. Watch him demonstrate one of the best shoulder activation drills you're probably not doing.
February 1980: The State of Powerlifting
Analyze the February 1980 issue of Powerlifting USA. Featuring Mike MacDonald's bench press specifics, Mark Dimiduk’s rise, and the Finnish Deadlift routine.
The WarGrip Knee Sleeves Were Built for the Gym, Not the Platform
The elitefts WarGrip Training Knee Sleeves are a dual-ply training sleeve built for daily use, with enough compression to keep you protected session after session, without the fight of getting them on.