Connecticut has quite the strongman community. This week I made my way up to South Windsor to visit a real strength athlete’s playground.
The seminar era produced stories about cabs and airports and churches and bomb shelters. This is one of my favorites.
What is the best way to prepare for your training session? Do you need a foam roller? Muscle activation techniques? A reverse hyper?
This is my journey: to help people find strength, like I found strength.
Dropping bodyweight doesn’t have to mean dropping pounds off your total. If you have reasonable expectations, there are ways to maintain your strength while cutting weight.
The record-holder and 1075-pound bench presser openly discusses technique and his comeback from injury in this Kabuki Strength Lab video.
If you ever want to reach an elite level in this sport, you have to get the rookie mistakes out of the way. These are the most common problems I see in intermediate lifters.
Clint answers your questions: Olympic weightlifting for Strongman performance? Sumo or conventional deadlift stance?
There are a lot of strong lifters in the world. That’s not all we’re looking for.
Training in the S4 Compound means knowing when and how to turn up the intensity. In this back session, Dave and John do exactly that.
There’s a way to know if your genetics suck — but not until you’ve given 100%. If you don’t spend enough time trying, you’ll never know.
The rivalry between Duffin and Byrd has pushed both lifters to higher numbers and bigger squats. Hear them talk about their training, history, and competing against one another.
A lot of people disagree about how often you should deadlift in the gym, if at all. For 13 years of competing, this is how I trained my deadlift.
If you haven’t suffered an impact injury, finding the cause of your discomfort will be a complicated challenge. Use these adjustments to help alleviate pain and discover the source of your lower-body aches.
You can love training more than anything else in your life but that doesn’t mean it’s always going to be fun. What will you do when training becomes the most difficult part of your day?
Success is a personal definition. I can’t tell you what it is. But I can tell you about passion.
If you have only one opportunity per month to eat the foods you want, you don’t waste it. By the end of the night I felt like I was going to die.
The annoying lifter in your gym might seem like he’s making no progress, but screwing around is exactly what he needs.
These three areas of diet are debated frequently and fervently. Here is an established position and explanation by someone who has experimented with himself and others.
Biceps and triceps tendonitis are among the most likely aches to plague competitive powerlifters. Here are several go-to ways to manage these and other common tendon and joint overuse injuries.
As he aims to take his 540-pound bench up to 600, Casey is employing the help of these veteran coaches. Watch as he learns the adjustments needed to keep pushing forward.
This company has never existed to compete with Company A, B, or C. If you own your own business, you need to understand your culture and evaluate how that translates to a dollar value.
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.
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 can understand how you can squat, bench, and deadlift as a fatass. The real question is, how do you survive?
I’m still learning how to train like a bodybuilder in my current cycle. Here’s the full workout and everything Dave taught me this week.
You should be doing core exercises as part of your warm-up and as part of your accessory work on certain training days. Are you doing the right ones?
Coming off a debilitating injury, respect your body’s range of motion and only push the limits when the time is right. You’re on your way back, don’t blow it now.
The specific practices demonstrated and discussed in these videos improve power transfer and increase distal mobility through focus on proximal stability.
Within those seconds, between with the chalk box and the bar, that’s what I’m talking about. That’s the void.
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.
Everything you’re seeing online is a mirage. How do you filter through all the bullshit?
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.
Offering a standardized program of muscle-building protocols can keep your athletes engaged and motivated to complete the training demands.
Dave answers your questions from Instagram in 15 seconds or less.
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It’s not going to be easy to accomplish your goals. When your will to achieve starts to fade, what will you do?
Training a high number of athletes in a limited number of time poses unique problems for timing and extensive warm-ups. Use these quick and efficient protocols to streamline team workouts.
It is no accident that The Spot Athletics has a distinct persona in the sports performance industry; JL and his coaches have worked hard to establish precisely the training facility they want for their clients.
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.
Scott Stevenson details the scholarly and bodybuilding principles that formed his high-frequency training philosophy.
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.
The Whethams team up on camera again to bring another technical breakdown of a fundamental Kettlebell movement.
There is a lesson of loyalty and leadership to be learned from the journey of Derek Millender.
Listen to Clint Darden and learn all of the features that really matter for you, the lifter.
Implement these multi-functional and easy-to-learn movements into your team training for greater time efficiency in the weight room.
This seminar is the real deal, not a staged production. It is exactly what I was teaching years ago.
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.
Auto-Regulatory Training can give coaches an athlete-governed system to promote an optimal training environment with limited resources and shorter training cycles
The possibilities when constructing a pre, intra, and post-workout nutrition plan are nearly endless. Let Scott Stevenson break down the principles for you.
Human potential is a lot higher than we think it is. It has always been higher.
Looking for motivation? We’ve got exactly the training footage you need.
Training athletes in a team setting poses problems that are easily overlooked. Here are several coaching strategies and cues to get your athletes moving smarter and faster.
Stevenson discusses his educational and practical experience and explains how each of his disciplines have contributed to his life and approach to bodybuilding.
These simple pick and acceleration adjustments will give you the edge you need during the initial seconds of the farmer’s carry.
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