Cheat Meals, Refeeds, and Triple-X Eating
Could abandoning your diet be the secret to a leaner physique?
Applying Bodybuilding Science to Create a Genetic Freak
If your simple training program is not producing results, your satellite cells, hormone balance, and intensification techniques might be to blame.
How to Direct Goals to Achieve Success
Examples from the playground lead to achievement as an adult.
WATCH: White Lights, PRs, and an All-Time World Record
Watch XPC footage from Christine Brass, Sheri Whetham, and Brandon Smitley. What's next for these elitefts athletes?
LISTEN: You Can't Manage What You Can't Measure
Using all available technology and resources, Ryan Horn explains how he developed his successful basketball team.
How to Find Your Perfect Bench Press Grip
Your ideal width will be determined by several key anatomical measurements.
Important Steps to Reach Your Goals
Let go of your past, bury old habits, and look to a brighter future.
Does Eating More Frequently Boost My Metabolism?
Reanalyze these four components of food metabolism to customize your food intake.
Broaden Perspective for Greater Success in Lifting
Before writing off a training method, look deeper into the reasons for the program design. The perception is not always the reality.
How to Dial in Your Bodybuilding Condition
This is the introduction of my journey, explaining the training and nutrition I am implementing, to complete my goal of winning the overall at a National-qualifier.
Leadership Values to Be a Better Coach
The presenters at the Sports Performance Training Summit didn't only explain the virtues needed to be a great coach—they demonstrated them.
The Mechanics of Recovery: Knowing When to Recharge
Quit pretending you are a Ferrari when you are (in fact) a second-hand high-mileage Ford Focus.
Finding the Training Program that Works for You
Be open to different fitness methods, learn what is useful, discard what is not.
Kettlebells for Conditioning and Strength
Build conditioning, power and athleticism with simple and easy-to-learn kettlebell workouts.
6 Ways To Increase Strength
Six REAL factors to getting strong, not the same crap we've read over and over... and over again. Seriously, how many times do we have to be told to train hard, be consistent, follow a program and eat right? Those may not even matter anyhow but these do.
Powerlifters or Keyboard Cowards?
Longevity in the sport often reveals which competitors are driven by false confidence.
WATCH: Adjusting Knee Wrap Technique for Different Types of Squats
The over/under style to allow flexion with protection.
Six Months to a Leaner Physique and Bigger Total
Use my steps to create your own strength and weight management protocol.
Teaching Humility and Success
One of the most important lessons is not learning how to accomplish your goals, but rather how to carry yourself once you do.
Seeing the Big Picture with your Training and Nutrition
How to understand and breakdown the complexities of your food intake for better weight management.
9 Week Conjugate Strength Training Program Proven to Break Records
This was designed in December 2000 and has been used by thousands of lifters to better grasp Conjugate Training and increase the strength of their Squat, Bench Press and Deadlift by hundreds of pounds.
Finnish Deadlift Secrets
"Throughout the years, the deadlift has been our ”national sport” here in Finland, and world records have been broken since the early '70s. But what makes Finns pull so much? What is their secret ? I wanted to know the answer, and after collecting training information of many new and former greats, here is what I found."
WATCH: The Passion for Strength Travels Near and Far
Anderson and Miller open the nearest elitefts outfitted gym yet.
Competing in the Spirit of No Self
Mixing his physiological expertise with experience in competitive strongman, Franke provides a no-fluff understanding of the inner self.
Throw Out Your Expectations
Avoiding hostility and disinterest by following these communication tips will result in greater engagement and child development.
Have You Tried Gateway Gear?
C' mon guys, everybody's doing it. It won't hurt you (as long as you use it correctly).
3 Mistakes to Avoid When Hiring Your Staff
Getting the most out of your athletes starts with bringing on the right coaches.
Surviving Reno: International Travel for a Bigger Total
If you want to become the best, go learn from someone even better.
WATCH: What Would You Change About Your Sport?
Powerlifting, Strongman, and Physique sports all have their weaknesses. A diverse group of lifters discuss solutions to drive progress.
Pull/Push/Squat Loading Matrix
NEO: "What is the Matrix?" TRINITY: "The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you if you want it to."
The Elitefts™ Internship
Former elitefts interns explain the value of their experience - could you be next?
Stupid Training Tools: Balance Training
Why risk serious injury and a possible concussion for “bragging rights”?
Testing Maximum Velocity in Football
Increase potential, increase capacity, and increase performance on the field.
Programming Considerations for Bench-Only Competitors
Technique and programming are so complex that bench pressing is a sport in, and of, itself.
Incentive-Based System for Collegiate Athletes
Abandon the carrot and stick in favor of a more effective and measurable motivational strategy.
How to Use the M2 Method in a Commercial Gym
If it works at Orlando Barbell, why not try it at your local YMCA.
The Pursuit of Strength
We hold these truths to be self evident...all men are created equal (but not genetically) and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of strength.
WATCH: We Lift Metal, We Listen to Metal, and Most of Us Wear Metal
The very first elitefts music video.
