Every piece of the puzzle in conjugate periodization is essential. Build from the bottom up.
Beyond the obvious benefits of camaraderie and mutual encouragement, there are some definite positives to having a good training partner.
After exhausting the back squat, I experimented with a more efficient approach to strengthening the lower limbs of my athletes.
I gained 63 pounds of muscle in my first year of lifting and 30 pounds in my second year. Soon after I had 19 ½” biceps. Here’s how.
Regardless of how strong you are, there is always room for improvement and growth by adopting a white belt mentality.
Think of grease as your stomach’s protective shield. It’s like when your hands get dry and start cracking…
In the final episode of Season 2, Dave Tate sits down to discuss Louie Simmons’ passing and the future of Dave Tate’s Table Talk Podcast.
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As long as you are meeting your caloric needs and are getting enough sleep every night, training is by far the most important thing you have to get stronger.
Dr. Stuart McGill talks about lower back pain, how personality impacts recovery, and understanding how to ACTUALLY train your core.
Everything you do in the gym is mobility training, but not everything you do in the gym gives you better mobility.
Willie walks us through a typical day of coaching and gives you advice of how to climb the ranks to the Division 1 level.
Here are three of my favorite intensity techniques to add muscle that naturally cut training time: rest-pause sets, isometric pre/post fatigue sets, and cluster sets.
If you see owning a gym as just a revenue stream, I guarantee you will fail. It takes way more than equipment in a room with electricity.
We figured out the movement tiers for the squat and deadlift, so let’s use the movement tiers to combat weakness in the bench press.
Sam talks about what it was like going from “Training HIS Ass Off” to “Training YOUR Ass Off” and going from a participant to an assistant.
These are things that I didn’t appreciate enough when I was in my 20s but have risen to the top of my priority list in recent years.
Matt Goodwin and Sam Brown talk about being fat, beer, and meathead decisions. Let these two be your guide to what NOT to do.
If you’re hesitating to make the commitment to start any type of training to help out those with less knowledge, don’t. Take the plunge.
The key to the program is to never accommodate to movements and exercises. Change some aspects of your training every time you train.
If you’ve plateaued this training season, let Sam be your guide and deliver 3 steps to help you get stronger now.
You’ll want to include some single-limb work, train in multiple planes of motion, provide alternation and stability, plus soft tissue work!
In the moment you say, “Ow, this hurts,” what do you do? Do you push through the pain or go home? Here’s what to know about pain.
How you set up your max effort work is crucial to setting up the rest of the session. Don’t just pick random exercises here.
How can we create the damage and nastiness required for a productive leg workout while sparing our backs?
In this episode of Dave Tate’s Table Talk, Brian Carroll and Dave sit down and share a cigar and dive into what it means on going “all in” in the gym, not wanting to train, and how the hell these little guys deadlifting so much. Don’t miss this episode, filled with banter between friends and […]
You may be wondering how speed training, training volume, and crack houses all come up in one episode. Listen to find out.
You are still completing the same amount of reps as you would with a 5×10 program, but the overall tonnage is increased.
You live in a time of instant access to knowledge to get better at your sport. Before the internet, how did the strength greats ever manage?
How much you bench is reliant on a good warm-up. Here’s an upper body warm-up to help answer this question while reducing the risk of injury.
You likely warm-up extensively or do nothing at all. Instead, try this 10-minute, 3-part warm-up to systematically prime yourself for your next workout!
There is more to building the deadlift than variety, and there is also a point of diminishing returns to consider.
Most people try to cram a square peg into a round hole when choosing their training plan. Why not create a training split that compliments your lifestyle?
Competing now for ten years, we recircle with Yessica Martinez to get an update on life, training, and foreseeable future endeavors.
Escalating Density Training or EDT is a savagely simple hypertrophy variation to transform teenage athletes into monsters.
Use these movement tiers to help athletes and coaches program the correct movements for specific weaknesses in squats or deadlifts.
Use this 8-week reset program to give yourself an “active break” while reaping the physical and mental benefits of regular training.
As a new father or busy professional in your 30s+, training takes on a whole new look and meaning to meet your demanding lifestyle.
What do you do when you wake up one morning and realize that your best years are behind you? Retirement is a double-edged sword.
Do you sit a lot? How about those shoulders? Are they rounded forward? Even if you don’t sit all day, many of the exercises you’re doing in the gym place you in extension.
Direct arm training will reduce the likelihood of a biceps or triceps tear, strengthen the tendons, improve pressing strength and grip.
Train balls to the wall and stuff is bound to break, right? Back things off and recovery capabilities won’t be as taxed, right? Well, kind of.
Sam Brown talks about HIT Training and how you can use it in your training to better yourself, or your athletes.
Before you take a break from lifting heavy (and for those of you that are on the fence wondering if deloads are even necessary), consider three backed-by-science steps.
The arm is just another part of the body that can be trained like the legs or the biceps if you know how to do it correctly.
“We are a family.” This is the first collegiate strength and conditioning myth I’d like to debunk. Hear me out.
Let’s manage posture, patterns, and muscle imbalances to get to the source of the problem—a typical solution for most ailments.
Matt Mills and Brittany Diamond talk about training for both strongman and powerlifting, gross gym stories, and competition training.
At Showtime Strength & Performance, we have run close to 30 powerlifting meets of all sizes and for competitors of all types. Here’s how we do it.
In this Table Talk episode, Dave Tate addresses when he felt he was at his “BEST” and what made it possible.
Your battle to succeed in powerlifting is won or lost in your mind long before you chalk up and curl your fingers around the knurling of a barbell.
The long-term impact powerlifting can have on health, and if it wrecks your body, as well as the current state of Multiply Powerlifting gear.
