How the Best Strength Coaches Deal with Scheduling Conflicts and the Coa...
Ever wonder how collegiate athletes manage time between scholastics, sports practices, and lifting? Here’s how S&C coaches can help and develop a better relationship with sport coaches.
Save a Newbie
Remember all those things you wish you would have known when you started? Maybe we should do more than laugh at the guy across the gym doing machine decline iso-lateral presses.
Aerobic Threshold Training for Field Sports: The Starting Point for Repe...
To help athletes overcome the limiting factor of human performance, an adequate training program must address an individual’s aerobic metabolism.
WATCH: Passion Trumps Everything
Human potential is a lot higher than we think it is. It has always been higher.
Iron Warrior Gym Drives Progress Through Competitive Atmosphere
Business partners J.J. Stepien and Seth Lee lead the development of strength in this Denver, Colorado training facility.
What Type of Deload Will Help You Recover Best?
Deloads are extremely useful for making continual progress from harsh training. When the time comes for you to back off the weights, make sure you do it the right way.
Fourteen and Broken: The Female Athlete
Discourage injuries through coaching basics that will appropriately prep your athletes for the field and weight room.
Alternatives to Traditional Size and Fitness Programming
The best program for muscle hypertrophy and aerobic capacity extends the training perspective to a year-long pursuit of improved fitness.
5thSet: Swede’s Jedi Mind Trick
You can expect a good program to make you stronger. What I didn’t expect was a program to overhaul my neural network and solve every training problem I encountered.
Cardio in the Off-Season: Blasphemy, Beneficial or Badass
Can off-season cardio make for a leaner, healthier growing bodybuilder or will it nip your gains in the bud? Stevenson solves the cardio conundrum.
Old School elitefts Training Motivation
Looking for motivation? We’ve got exactly the training footage you need.
101 Ways to Use the OBB Power Handles
Get more out of your standard barbell and dumbbell set by the swivel of a bolt and the tightening of a wing nut. It’s that easy.
WATCH: Basic Linear Speed Acceleration Drills in a Team Setting
Training athletes in a team setting poses problems that are easily overlooked. Here are several coaching strategies and cues to get your athletes moving smarter and faster.
LISTEN: The Science and Strength of Scott Stevenson
Stevenson discusses his educational and practical experience and explains how each of his disciplines have contributed to his life and approach to bodybuilding.
How to Develop Through Coaching Others
Guiding younger lifters isn’t only about giving back to the sport you love — when you do it correctly, you grow, too.
Regenerative Medicine: The Future of Rehabilitation?
My journey from torn muscles to new PRs led me to Dr. Parikh, an expert on unconventional methods of recovery.
LISTEN: Joe Hashey Discusses Training Process, Football Players, and Wha...
The owner of Synergy Athletics and two-time NSCA featured speaker breaks down his career path and gives the advice that all trainers and gym owners need to hear.
WATCH: Clint Darden Coaches How to Shave Seconds Off the Farmer's Walk
These simple pick and acceleration adjustments will give you the edge you need during the initial seconds of the farmer’s carry.
Taking the Rind, Leaving the Juice
If you’re going to emulate someone great, make sure you’re picking out the things that matter and not copying the things that don’t.
6 Exercises to Engage Your Child's Senses
Make each training session sensory-rich, personal, and dynamic for the child with special needs. Tweak your approach by considering these six exercises.
Training the Inner Drive
Your career in this world of strength will only go as far as your desire to win. Lose that, and you lose any chance you ever had to succeed.
Barely Making Weight and My Results from Team Universe
The days leading up to my competition were full of challenges and stress. My coach John Meadows listened and helped me formulate a plan for this show and the future.
WATCH: A Better Way to Train High School Athletes
A year-round training solution for the multi-sport athletes.
Expanding My Circle of Training Knowledge
There is a well-known saying in our industry: information in strength and conditioning doubles every eighteen months. How will you keep up?
Ka-BOOM! A Learning Experience in Failure and Bombing
When faced with failure you have two options: sit down and quit or push harder. Several weeks ago I found myself in this predicament.
Do Your Records Mean Anything?
There's a lot of hatred thrown around when a lifter hits a federation record. Should we be celebrating the PR with them?
The 6 Best Peri-Workout Nutrition Compilation
Peri-workout nutrition experts Justin Harris, Ben Hartman, and Scott Stevenson, give you the insight you need to understand and create your own protocol.
Integrity (Or a Lack Thereof)
Why is our industry full of morally corrupt lifters and unoriginal thieves? Isn't there something we can do?
Price of the Platform
From test vials to Vicodin bottles, a handful of powerlifting champions recount their sacrifices. Was it worth it?
LISTEN: Delegating High School Athlete Accountability Through Character ...
NSCA High School Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year Fred Eaves discusses the culture he has created at Battle Ground Academy.
The Practice of Overcoming Fear
Fear is not something to be avoided. Do not run from one of the most powerful human sensations. Embrace it and use it to your advantage.
WATCH: Clint Darden Shows How to Teach and Use the Clean for Athletes
An old football programming staple, the clean is used (and misused) by hundreds of coaches every year. Clint Darden starts at the bottom and fixes everything a football player needs for better carryover and better performance.
Did You Win or Lose the Day?
Build your winning culture the same way you build in the weight room: every session, every set, and every rep leading to game day.
8 Best Maximal Lifting Techniques for Mega Mass
Bodybuilding training isn’t the only way to build muscle. Here are serious hypertrophy techniques ripped straight from the powerlifting platform.
Cutting Weight for Strongman: Is It Helping or Hurting You?
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.
Solving the Summer Challenges of Coaching Collegiate Athletes
With summer programming for athletes, control what you can control and don't sweat the rest.
Competence is Confidence
Belief in yourself is only useful if you take the time to build your abilities. Here's the formula to turn bravado into skilled-mastery.
The Hook Grip & Straps by the Legend Steve Goggins. Plus a 900lb pull!
The Hook Grip & Straps by the Legend Steve Goggins. Plus a 900lb pull!
WATCH: Buddy Morris's Physical Preparation for Football
This specially-released footage from the elitefts Sport's Performance Training Summit goes inside the mind of a strength and conditioning pioneer.
Single-Legged and Semi-Functional?
Can proper implementation of unilateral exercise produce healthier, higher-performing athletes?
8-Week Off-Season Figure Training Plan
This program reveals the approach I use for bringing up weak points between shows without neglecting the necessary foundation for all competitors.
12 Tips for the Advanced Lifter
If you've been in the sport for more than a few years, you no longer need programming tips and coaching cues. These higher level lessons will help you reach your prime.
Strength Development for the Casual Male Lifter
For our readers not looking to the take platform or the stage, this program delivers only what you need to become a stronger, leaner version of yourself.
Staying Committed to the Future: The New elitefts.com
The many products and services we offer have been complicated by technology. Now we want to make that up to you.
The Long Road To Victory: Dark Ages
With the struggles of PhD demands affecting my personal and professional life, I needed to change my approach.
The Quick Fix: Simple Ways to Conquer Common Powerlifting Mistakes
You might need a long-term progression to overcome nagging pains and to increase your lifts. Or maybe you just need these simple tips.
WATCH: Tate, Dizenzo, and Goggins Present Coaching Methods from The Powe...
Three of our best experts discuss world-class coaching of the squat, the bench, and the deadlift.
Everything You Didn't Know About Surviving Smolov
This program is known for two things: absurd increases in competition lifts, and destroying lifters' bodies. Use these tips to make sure you fall in the first group.
WATCH: Mastering the Kettlebell Clean
This fundamental movement requires an advanced technical proficiency. Use this video guide to help you reach total kettlebell comprehension.
Identity Crisis: Who Are You in the Fitness Industry?
The expense of climbing the wrong mountain is falling back down before finding the right one. Choose wisely.
Powerlifting and meaning: I think we lie to ourselves
I just watched Dan Ariely’s TED conference about motivation and work and it made me think about our attitude towards other people’s reaction to powerlifting. Most of us (in fact, I would say all of us) claim we don’t give a shit.
WATCH: The Keyhole Barbell Mindset
Keyhole Barbell isn't meant to be comfortable — it's meant to scare you. And it will.
The elitefts Powerlifting Experience II: From Reno to London
Even at my reduced bodyweight, the travel was rigorous. In the end, getting to see my family was worth every uncomfortable plane seat.
My First Trip to elitefts and Talking with Dave Tate
My mentor and I traveled to London, Ohio and saw first-hand that some people truly never stop learning.
Could You Be Getting More Out of Your Knee Wraps?
In an exchange with Marilla Coutinho, Swede determines the primary flaw that reduces knee-wrap carryover.
WATCH: Go All In or Get Out
When he spoke at The elitefts Powerlifting Experience II, Clint Darden didn't present on squat cues or deadlift programming. He asked a more important question: Do you know why?
WATCH: Swede Shares the Training History That Developed '5th Set'
As we prepare for the release of his highly-anticipated book, Swede shares the foundation of his strength training and the programming philosophy he has developed.
Under Pressure: Are Life Factors Influencing Your Training?
From your job, from your marriage, or from a loaded barbell, your body is going to revolt against stress. How will you adjust?
