You may have heard or read a few things about Dave’s second hip replacement and the PRs that led to his surgery, but no one has heard the full story. Until now.

Do you need ammonia? Loud music? A slap to the back of your head? Your training partners screaming?

There are a lot of insights to gain from being both a powerlifter and a collegiate head strength coach.

If you don’t start on the right path, you might spend years training hard and making no progress.

The easy answer is that it builds mental toughness. The strength and conditioning answer, however, involves understanding the differences between lactic acid, glycolytic, and oxidative work.

You can control the physical demands placed on your body in the gym, but you can’t always control what happens outside of it. How can you ensure you’re recovered and in an optimal state once its time to train?

Want grip strength like a bear and biceps like baseballs?

It may be tempting to put your entire trust in someone with experience, but there are a few things to consider first.

Your time on this earth is limited, and much shorter than you likely realize. Don’t waste it.

Caring about someone doesn’t always mean agreeing with them — sometimes it means telling them they’re making a stupid-ass decision.

Number of competitions? Severity of injury? Conditioning and size? Powerlifting total?

Longevity in this sport requires taking care of your body, but perhaps more importantly it requires taking care of your life.

Being in this sport for long means making mistakes, but for Clint, there’s one that he considers worse than all others.

Do genetic ceilings exist? How can you know if you’ve reached yours? Is it possible to break through?

The first part of training for longevity is ensuring that your body’s central nervous system can adequately handle the demands of your program.

Mark and Dave share their combined knowledge in both powerlifting and bodybuilding, gained from multiple decades honing their respective crafts.

You know the importance of protein, carbohydrates, and fats, but are you overlooking the finer details such as fiber and what types of fats are best?

In these six videos, Dani identifies and helps resolve Casey’s hip issues while squatting. How can Casey’s powerlifting setback help you?

Looking for an unconventional use for bands?

Performing best, and especially looking your best for the sport of bodybuilding, requires that your body be functioning well on the inside. Mark shares how he has accomplished this throughout his career.

The following details my secondary back workout. I slightly deviated from the plan because the workout took place at the elitefts Compound and Dave Tate took over the biceps programming portion.

Have you ever eaten an entire box of Pop-Tarts in one sitting?

Bench-builder or back-breaker? Steve has the answer.

All in one spot, check out the entire 7-part discussion with Dave Tate and Justin Harris. Pre-workout energy, GPP, muscle loss while dieting, and training age are just a few of the topics discussed.

Reading directly from Instagram with no preparation, Dave answers 14 more questions on training, nutrition, and improving performance.

In this video, Don walks through his growth as a strength and conditioning coach. He discusses lessons from each of the positions he has held and shares the names of several of the most influential people that have helped him in his career.

Dave’s back at The Table, and this time he’s answering your questions back-to-back with no preparation.

Stories of Westside, vomit, blood, cysts, spine health, circa max training, pizza, and more…

Despite all of the positive aspects of using a hook grip, there’s one significant deterrent: pain. What if you could avoid it?

All in one article, we revisit Dave and Maliek’s discussion on sticking points, longevity, equipped powerlifting transitions, and challenges a lifter must face when following a percentage-based training program.

Training programs, nutrition plans, supplement protocols — sorting through all this information to find really works may seem difficult. It doesn’t have to be.

Equipment, coaching, elitefts team members — this gym in Derby, Connecticut has it all, and is one of my favorite places to visit.

If you misidentify the cause of the injury, not only will you fail to solve the problem, but you may actually make it worse.

When the long-term goal is a 1000-pound squat at 220, and the ultimate goal is a 2400-pound total, you need two things: patience and a lot of hard work.

Play your cards wisely. Once you use them, you can’t get them back.

100 grams per day? 200? 300? And is it possible too have too much?

Those chasing elite level power, performance, and physique development will take the most interest in Dr. Serrano’s special band manipulations during the set.

If you reside in Central Ohio or are just visiting, make 11athletics the place to be for your fitness needs and wants.

You will meet people who change your life forever. I’ve found most of mine within the four steel walls we call a gym.

There are rules about training age that apply whether you’re 15 or 50.

The presentation is an introductory overview covering items ranging from the importance of mental health to the stress response and how to design exercise programs to accommodate it.

Does it really make a difference if you do your cardio before or after eating in the morning?

Now that we’ve covered the four phases of Mountain Dog Training, let’s talk about a difficult—but very important—body part.

Being able to seek new ways to perform at your best is just as important as finding the best gym, and this is why I think it’s so important to share RPR with everyone.

You can train shoulders in a lot of ways, from a lot of different angles. Including the full workout, one of bodybuilding’s brightest minds shows how to do it best.

Getting better at a box squat and making the most of your diet may sound like they have nothing in common. They do.

In the third part of his presentation, John goes into great detail about the layout of a training program and how to manipulate frequency to bring up weak body parts.

You hear a lot about GPP and aerobic capacity, but does it actually make a difference for a powerlifter or a bodybuilder? Dave and Justin weigh in.

After completing Phase 1 (Pre-Pump Activation), Mountain Dog Training moves to Phase 2 (Train Explosively) and Phase 3 (Supramax Pump).

After missing Strongman Sunday, Clint had a serious question to answer: when would it be safe to train again?

Are all sources of pre-workout energy created equal? In this video, Dave and Justin discuss the best way to find motivation in the gym.

In this first video in the series, John discusses how Phase I of the Mountain Dog Training Program utilities a variety of hypertrophy principles to help you grow while avoiding injury.

You can be certain that every great lifter you admire has mastered auto-regulation. If you want to be great, you’ll need to do the same.

There’s only one thing you should truly fear this Halloween: not getting stronger.

This Strongman’s paradise in Cedar Rapids, Iowa has the people, the equipment, and the expertise you need to get stronger.

What happens when an expert in powerlifting and an expert in bodybuilding train together for five years?

Dave covers training and weight gain principles through Freddy Krueger, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Hershey’s Bars.

We pulled him into his left hip in the previous exercise, while this correction is designed to help drive him “off” his right hip.

If you’re training for a new world or personal record, every pound matters.