In every phase of the process, do prepare for the unexpected. This is the real world and it will turn out great only if everything goes according to plan.

With autoregulation, a system such as RPE can help manage life stressors and account for nueromuscular processes on a given day…but only if you use it correctly.

With your qualifying meet out of the way, you now have an opportunity to return to building mode before starting a peaking cycle for your next meet.

For Halloween this year, I’ve created a list of exercises to haunt your athletes and send them crying for their mummies.

Consider what areas of the body are affected, analyze what lifts aren’t improving, and come up with a plan for recovery. Now is not the time to give up.

Would powerlifting be more popular if it were in the Olympics? What if ESPN aired National Championships?

These 6-week max effort and 4-week dynamic effort waves have taken Casey’s raw bench to 540 pounds. Watch as he explains his approach to chasing 600 and how you can use his methods yourself.

Strength is a journey, not a quick fix. Take the time to choose your tools correctly and create something indestructible.

The best 220-pound raw lifter in the world opens up about his training and what it takes to capture an all-time record.

What started as a coaching weekend turned into a group training session for elitefts team members.

I’ve always said that passion trumps everything, and when it’s real and from the heart, it does. When it’s from the head, it doesn’t trump shit.

Thirteen months into my time as a member of CPAP Nation, I’ve made several ground-breaking discoveries for optimizing the use of your CPAP.

Before you start plugging in the exercises figure out why your bench sucks.

I learned what it was like to feel old and weak, but my heartbeat was a war drum again. As long as I was breathing, I would be moving — I would be moving toward the conflict.

With the first two phases behind you, it’s time to move into higher gear for the first meet of the year. Are you ready to apply what you learned in weeks 1-13?

Where do the old, broken hip, ate-up powerlifters go after they retire from the sport? What do young guys in their prime get to look forward to? It’s glorious…just glorious.

Weight cuts are one of the worst parts of powerlifting. Here are the ins and outs of the entire process and why you might respond differently than your fellow competitor.

Life can throw a lot of obstacles your way — my health issues and hospital stay weren’t part of my lifting plan this year. But, hey, at least I am alive.

Unimpressed? This old school method will help you get to 500 pounds, too.

Following an early GPP phase, the yearly program moves toward variations of competition movements and learning which exercises you’ll need later on.

I found myself in a hospital bed and then on an operating table. Through all of the delays and the drugs, I knew I had to lift again, no matter what it took.

This is pain that you crave, because the load you’ve been carrying all your life is now resting on your back — and you have the power to smash it.

As you focus on moving maximum weight on squats, benches and deadlifts, wimpy isolation movements just don’t have a place. Or do they?

One doesn’t need to look that hard to see glimpses of this rebirth of powerlifting because they are all around us. I caught a glimpse (one of many) of the resurgence at the 2015 APF Chicagoland Summer Bash.

Five reality check items for individual athletes in their struggle for sponsorship

This training camp with Steve is set up with a limited attendance and a non-formal format. We designed it with this format so you can learn all you can from Steve and so that Steve can help tap into what YOU need to do to become better.

Program writing can be difficult. Here are three solutions that I’ve used in my own training to help you with this process.

After the competition, my body was ready to rest — but my mind wasn’t. My determination got me back on my feet, but I wasn’t on them for long.

Are you still searching for the holy grail of programs? Here it is, in all its perfection.

This 52-week approach begins immediately after a meet and constructs a long-term plan for tying together all parts of a training program.

If you are a dual sport competitor, your training must allot proper focus to the intricacies of each discipline. Use this template as a guide.

It’s not going to be easy to accomplish your goals. When your will to achieve starts to fade, what will you do?

Is your program letting you down? These three aspects of Triphasic Training will repair the damage of repetitive incompetency.

Julia, in conjunction with Alexander Cortes and Scott Paltos, discusses how training like a bodybuilder and adding in higher reps might help powerlifters with the big three lifts.

When two, fat bloated powerlifters travel the country to do seminars, you’re going to have a few interesting stories to tell.

Illness didn’t stop me from competing, and dropping 525 pounds on my chest didn’t stop me from finishing the meet. But later that night, I realized I was in more serious pain than it seemed at first.

I realized this week that I made a huge mistake in my last table talk video…this is for the female lifters I left out.

You learn a lot from the mistakes you make at your first meet. Imagine all you can learn from the mistakes spanning an entire powerlifting career.

Injuries suck, but we all get them. It’s part of the game. But there’s one injury that kept me out of the gym for months at a time. The doctor told me I’d never bench over 400 pounds again. He was wrong.

Maximize teaching strategies and improve learning reception by familiarizing yourself with the processes of creating and enforcing new behavioral strategies.

This crime classic is full of strength training lessons from the Corleone family. When you take the platform, are you the hot-tempered Santino or the calm, calculated Michael?

Listen to Clint Darden and learn all of the features that really matter for you, the lifter.

A torn callus may not be a long-term injury that requires a rehab protocol, but if it happens close to a meet, you need to be ready. Here’s how I recovered after tearing my hand open at the S4 Compound.

We are certain this article and embedded videos will not hit every sports and news outlet online, but at least you will LEARN HOW TO F**CKING BOARD PRESS! We have no idea what caused the recent train wreck, but can offer one solution by reposting an article from six years ago.

Some people will tell you that overtraining isn’t real. Don’t listen to these people. Take the time to consider your recovery just as much as you consider your training.

If you’re looking for the ideal training effect with a poor work and sleep schedule, you won’t find it. A lot of people try. A lot of people fail. Here’s how I learned to work around it.

Human potential is a lot higher than we think it is. It has always been higher.

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.

Looking for motivation? We’ve got exactly the training footage you need.

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.

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.

When faced with failure you have two options: sit down and quit or push harder. Several weeks ago I found myself in this predicament.

There’s a lot of hatred thrown around when a lifter hits a federation record. Should we be celebrating the PR with them?

The Hook Grip & Straps by the Legend Steve Goggins. Plus a 900lb pull!

You might need a long-term progression to overcome nagging pains and to increase your lifts. Or maybe you just need these simple tips.

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.

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.

Keyhole Barbell isn’t meant to be comfortable — it’s meant to scare you. And it will.