Veteran's Perspective of the Platform
Veteran's Perspective of the Platform
Are you obsessing over the minutiae and overlooking the big picture?
Breath Control for Optimal Performance
Breath Control for Optimal Performance

Appease your moral conscious by taking the prophalctic approach to birth control. Oh sorry…you said breath control.

Preventing Adaptation to Exercise
Preventing Adaptation to Exercise

Bodybuilding magazines have promulgated the myth of muscle confusion. While it sounds ridiculous, a slight tweaking in your exercises will grease the path of continued progress.

Why "Chest Up" in the Squat is Wrong
Why "Chest Up" in the Squat is Wrong

Fixing your thoracic spine position, can immediately add 10-15 percent to your squat.

The Powerlifter's Guide to Off-Season Programming
The Powerlifter's Guide to Off-Season Programming

SWOT analysis is crucial in developing a business plan, but can it also be applied to your powerlifting?

Avoid Newbie Pitfalls
Avoid Newbie Pitfalls

You may be a beginner, but you don't have to make the mistakes of one.

Top 10 Meet Day Tips for the Competitive Lifter
Top 10 Meet Day Tips for the Competitive Lifter

No matter how long you've been around, there's sure to be one or two on this list you've never heard.

The Importance of Tracking Volume
The Importance of Tracking Volume

One can not ignore the necessity of regulating training volume. Rest in peace, Mike Mentzer.

Building Size with Crossfit
Building Size with Crossfit

If you joined Crossfit to look like Rich Froning, you may need to broaden your approach. This is how I transitioned to powerlifting.

The Long Road to a 900-Pound Bench
The Long Road to a 900-Pound Bench

At the RPS Battle of Champions: Connecticut State Championships I accomplished a life-long goal.

The Building of Mike Strom
The Building of Mike Strom

As Strom prepares for Worlds, his coach reflects on what it took to get there.

Friday Technique Video: Bands Setup
Friday Technique Video: Bands Setup

This man will kick you so hard in the chest, you will crap your ribs out. Literally. Out of your butthole.

Pause to Re-evaluate Your Squat
Pause to Re-evaluate Your Squat

This one movement will eliminate the most common weakness found in squats.

You Will Be Stronger
You Will Be Stronger

At the last Learn to Train seminar, I saw attendees do amazing things. The Powerlifting Experience will be even better.

Memories of Westside
Memories of Westside

You all have heard a lot of stories, now let me cut through Dave's Westside bullshit.

Training Complexes to Shatter Plateaus
Training Complexes to Shatter Plateaus

Post-Activation Potentiation will add some spring to your static strength, produce new slabs of muscle, and develop a powerful physique.

Steve's Strength Tips: Get Pissed Not Stapled
Steve's Strength Tips: Get Pissed Not Stapled

Approach the bar with eyebrows like Yosemite Sam.

Heroically Overcoming the Villiany of Injury and Depression
Heroically Overcoming the Villiany of Injury and Depression

Super Zane snorts kryptonite like an ammonia inhalant and laughs in the face of rehabilitation.

Friday Technique Video: Mastering the Sumo Deadlift
Friday Technique Video: Mastering the Sumo Deadlift

This man can punch you so hard your teeth will hit your girlfriend like shrapnel. Listen to him.

The Tools of the Trade
The Tools of the Trade

If your max squat is 600 pounds it doesn't hurt to use a bar that supports twice that.

Using Gear to Overload Your Raw Strength
Using Gear to Overload Your Raw Strength

If you aren’t wising up to the value of gear for raw lifting, Joe will choke you out with a pair of Krait Knee Wraps.

Big Wave Surfing and Powerlifting are Similar, Dude
Big Wave Surfing and Powerlifting are Similar, Dude

Is driving out of the hole on a squat PR any harder than burying the rail on a sweet wave? Hell yeah, it is!

3 Contrarian Training Strategies
3 Contrarian Training Strategies

You are embarrassing! You come in here…doing those stale-ass sets, in that stale-ass program, as part of your stale-ass training cycle…and you expect results?

Increasing Proficiency in the Olympic Lifts
Increasing Proficiency in the Olympic Lifts

With attention to detail, effort, and intelligent progressions, Olympic lifts can be both enjoyable and highly effective in developing a range of physical qualities.

Duffin's Special Exercises to Maximize Glute Development
Duffin's Special Exercises to Maximize Glute Development

Video of my two favorite developmental tools for strength athletes that do not engage their glutes optimally.

2014 APF Senior Nationals Preview
2014 APF Senior Nationals Preview

The winners of this weekend qualify for the WPC World Championships…who will they be?

3 Ways the Platform Prepared Me for the Stage
3 Ways the Platform Prepared Me for the Stage

How becoming Strong(her) made me a better figure competitor.

Gear for the Raw Lifter: Know Your Weapons
Gear for the Raw Lifter: Know Your Weapons

Are you afraid that the chalk police will find illicit lifting paraphernalia in your gym bag?

My Unique Methods for a World Record Squat
My Unique Methods for a World Record Squat

Not any old training system will give you an 860 raw squat at 220.

You Ain't Shit But Neither Am I
You Ain't Shit But Neither Am I

In a world in which society is more connected than ever before, where has individual connectivity gone?

Are You Box Squatting or Squatting to a Box?
Are You Box Squatting or Squatting to a Box?

This man can break your leg like a Kit-Kat bar. Listen to him.

Don't Worry, Be Trappy
Don't Worry, Be Trappy

The beloved symbol of masculine strength and power: the yoke.

Top 20 Things Men Should Know About Female Powerlifters
Top 20 Things Men Should Know About Female Powerlifters

You think you know about female powerlifters? You don't know the first thing that is going on in their heads.

Motivation From Within
Motivation From Within

How far would you push yourself when you believe the only person who will ever know is you?

Combat Mentality Applied to Powerlifting
Combat Mentality Applied to Powerlifting

Crushing a PR is similar to taking out an enemy combatant.

4 Steps to Target Your Deadlift Plateau
4 Steps to Target Your Deadlift Plateau

This man can punch through your face and pull out your spine. Listen to him.

Dave Tate's Guide to Supplemental Movements with FULL Video
Dave Tate's Guide to Supplemental Movements with FULL Video

Updated with Dave Tate's FULL presentation (video) on supplemental strength from the LTT8.

Back on the Platform
Back on the Platform

Being sixty pounds lighter, Aichs pursues new bench PRs.

How I Deadlifted 800 Pounds Raw
How I Deadlifted 800 Pounds Raw

Hard work, unorthodox movements, and correcting weaknesses produce a BIG deadlift PR.

"Hey, I Think I Wanna Do a Powerlifting Meet…"
"Hey, I Think I Wanna Do a Powerlifting Meet…"

Elitefts™ equipment + Metal Gear + mental toughness = record lifts

What Exercises Do More Harm Than Good?
What Exercises Do More Harm Than Good?

Modification and alteration for hypertrophic gratification.

Cerebral Smackdown
Cerebral Smackdown

Hardwire your brain for success with these three no-bullshit techniques.

Dizenzo's 900-Pound Bench Program
Dizenzo's 900-Pound Bench Program

This month's bench-building program will drive your gains into The Vincent Zone.

Lift to Live
Lift to Live

While most powerlifters live to lift, Paige lifts to live.

Make Your Own Soup
Make Your Own Soup

Take what works for you from each training methodology…and become great.

The College Student's Guide to Powerlifting
The College Student's Guide to Powerlifting

Welcome to Blast and Dust 101. I’m your professor Joe Schillero.

So You Think You Can Front Squat? (Part 3)
So You Think You Can Front Squat? (Part 3)

How should you incorporate front squats into your training? Try this 10-week program.

"Everyone Knows Me As A Dick"
"Everyone Knows Me As A Dick"

Stevey P gives your athletes a mental body slam.

So You Think You Can Front Squat? (Part 2)
So You Think You Can Front Squat? (Part 2)

In our second of three on this series, we focus on the executing of the front squat, particularly form and technique.

Grip It. Don't Rip It.
Grip It. Don't Rip It.

As a powerlifter, you’ve heard the saying “Rip it off the floor!” probably a thousand times.

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