WATCH: Steve Goggins and Swede Burns Explain How to Coach The Big Three ...
Author of the upcoming ‘5th Set’ ebook joins lifting legend and hall-of-famer Steve Goggins to break down powerlifting movements and programming.
Have We Lost Trust in Our Foundation?
In your search of what is new and exciting, do not forget the principles that are proven to produce success.
WATCH: Adjusting the Glute-Ham Raise to Optimize Your Training
Don’t let a substandard equipment setup ruin your best asset for posterior chain strength.
How I Use CTP Training to Force Frequency and Intensity
When I tore my rotator cuff, I transitioned to more concentrated stimuli and a higher frequency per muscle group to avoid being forced to reduce my training intensity.
LISTEN: Mark McLaughlin's Best Practices for Physical Preperation
The owner of Performance Training Center has combined a comprehensive program management system with extensive communication skills to optimize athlete development.
Mistakes 101: Schedule Inflexibility
Part of being an adult is learning to prioritize; If training is important to you, you won’t have to tell anyone.
WATCH: Dave Tate Weak Point Training with elitefts Interns
The summer interns at elitefts sit down with Dave for a post-training chalk talk.
Hawaiian Pizza, Baseball, and Group Training
With young athletes, the key to using a group training protocol to fuel PRs is understanding the psychology of friendly competition.
WATCH: Team Elitefts Training and Coaching at The Powerlifting Experience
When weekend seminars at the S4 Compound come to a close, everyone in attendance leaves with a renewed determination for self-improvement. We have harnessed this motivation for you.
23 Loading Methods for Effective Set and Rep Schemes
These creative methods will reignite your boring routine. They work as long as you do.
The Responsibilities of a Strength Coach: How Much is Too Much?
With all the new technology for improving athletic performance, strength coaches should remember why they are there in the first place.
The elitefts Powerlifting Experience II: With Great Risk Comes Great Reward
It takes courage to lift under the scrutiny of the world's greatest lifters. On one particular weekend, this courage produced 164 PRs.
Mental Imagery Techniques: Can They Make You Bigger and Stronger?
Want to add new size and strength? Start IMAGINING those brutal training sessions.
The Hypocrisy of Intent Without Action
Are you using your busy schedule as an excuse for your wasted potential?
The Hardcore Underground: Lifting in the Shadiest Gym of the Industriali...
We gave up the glamour and comfort of a commercial gym. Here in our dungeon, 15-feet underground, we've found the secret to building strength.
The Pursuit of Likes: Why Women Should Save Competition for the Stage
Beautiful women, so what’s your Instagram account look like? Selfie-fest? Pushing the limits of skin exposure?
Managing the Dynamics of the High School Athlete
As strength and conditioning coaches, we need to adapt to every athlete who walks into our weight room.
LISTEN: Chris Doyle Off-Season and In-Season
Iowa's Strength and Conditioning Coach Chris Doyle sets a high standard for coaches and athletes to aspire for.
Lacrosse Training and Sports Psychology at Sean Kelly's Performance...
After a lucrative eight-year career in the world of trading equity derivatives, this gym-owner gave up Wall Street for a life of sports training.
Mistakes 101: Too Much Surfing, Not Enough Lifting
Do not oversaturate your mind with the knowledge of the internet and forget to do what really counts.
It's Not Just Five Pounds: Understanding Personal Records
When you're chipping away at that all-time PR, every pound matters.
WATCH: When to Use elitefts™ Compression Floss Bands
Unsure how to use this new product? Here's a personal message from the House of Biceps.
Powerlifting is a Science. Be the Scientist.
Approach your training and your progress with the mindset of a problem-solver. Sometimes this means asking others for help and sometimes this means figuring shit out for yourself.
WATCH: Hard Science and Training with Justin Harris
What happens when you mix atomic physics with meathead instinct?
How To Execute a Front and Side Relaxed Pose
Don't hide your perfect physique with poor posing. Follow these tips from professional posing coach Dave Myers.
3 Ways to Help You Stay On Your Diet
These simple tips will keep you on the path to your dream physique.
WATCH: The Comprehensive Guide to Knee Wraps
We've got a lot to choose from. This video will help you decide which wraps are right for you.
Promoting Powerlifting to Young Lifters
Having the opportunity to bring up the next generation of strength athletes is a task as much as a privilege. Use your influence wisely.
Bodybuilders Dying Young: Are Steroids to Blame?
Doctors and strength athletes frequently argue over the effects (good and bad) of performance-enhancing drugs, but some facts aren't debatable.
Two Dynamic Bench Cycles That Will Blow Your Bench Up
Are you looking for something new to take you bench up a notch? Here are two.
Mastery of Skill: Humility and Confidence
Confidence certainly fits the generally accepted mold of the alpha male, as it should. What about confidence?
Pre Raw Meet Cycle: going from equipped to raw lifting
Are you a geared lifter looking to enter your first raw meet? Read this...
Mistakes 101: Doing Things That Hurt
Pain is inevitable. It is up to you to determine which pain to seek and which pain to avoid.
WATCH: Better Attention, Better Results at Relentless Performance
This gym in Vero Beach, Florida offers the attention of multiple highly-educated trainers with years of personal experience.
You Aren't Original...and Neither Am I
How are your ideas, new or recycled, helping anyone but yourself?
Now Available: Sprinting Problems, Prowler Solutions
Joe DeFranco takes an in-depth look at how to use a variety of tools - including the elitefts Prowler - to help push your athletes' speed to the next level!
Lessons from the 2015 CSCCa Conference
In constant strive to get better as a coach and staff, these six things will prove useful.
Mythbusters 101: Don't Fall for These Fallacies
Bad information is passed from lifter to lifter, website to website. Let's end the charade.
Three Burpee Technique Flaws and How to Fix Them
If you've done this exercise, chances are you've done it wrong. Take it from me, I did 100 reps per day for an entire year.
Should Athletes Powerlift in the Off-Season?
Whether you're an off-season athlete or an athlete who isn't getting everything you want out of your school's team sports, powerlifting can be a viable option in your yearly process.
The Self-Education Lessons I Learned from John Meadows
The academic world will only take you so far. Once the formal education is over, how will you continue to improve yourself?
LISTEN: Tobias Jacobi Discusses Humility vs Ego, Sports Specialization, ...
The strength and conditioning coach from Strong Rock Christian School shares his experience from coaching multiple levels and sports.
4 Ways to Test Your Grit in the Weightroom
If you can survive these challenges it will be good for...but it won't feel that way.
Understanding Huge
Pack in the calories and pack on the pounds. Does your stomach have what it takes to eat like Chad Aichs?
3 Commercial Gym Conditioning Workouts You Can Do in 15 Minutes or Less
No time but need to shed some fat? These quick sessions will leave you in a puddle of sweat.
How Are We Judged As Strength Coaches?
Wins and losses? Injury prevention? Fourth-quarter dominance?
Of Levers and Lifting
The human body is a system of levers. When we understand the concepts of these mechanisms, we then increase our force-production capabilities.
Bill Tocco — When Cult Worlds Collide
When fitness was nothing more than an afterthought of the culture, this pro skateboarder created his own approach and looked to strength and conditioning to forge a new path.
14 Articles Every Strength Coach, Trainer, Lifter & Athlete Must Read
These are 14 articles I feel every coach, trainer and lifter must read.
Managing My Injuries with Dr. Kinakin's Specialized Rehabilitation ...
Athletes and lifters must care for their bodies with the attention of every detail. For me, this meant seeking deep acupuncture, electrical impulses, and the use of a percusser.
LISTEN: How Mike Boyle Became a Coach of Influence
One of the original strength coaches in the industry, Coach Boyle talks training, leadership, and more of what coaches need to hear.
Arrogance vs Relevance: Fix Your Business Practices
If you're relying on the wave of popularity to bring you clients, what will you do when the dry season comes.
12 Shoulder-Building Press and Raise Variations
Ditch that boring, straight-bar overhead press in exchange for these shoulder-pumping, hypertrophic alternatives.
4 Weeks To Bigger Arms
A very simple four-week training block to put some size on your arms, help stabilize your basic lifts and increase overall strength.