Cutting Weight for Strongman: Is It Helping or Hurting You?
Cutting Weight for Strongman: Is It Helping or Hurting You?
Unlike other strength sports, your weight class dictates the implements you'll use to compete in Strongman. Here's how to know if and when to cut weight.
Solving the Summer Challenges of Coaching Collegiate Athletes
Solving the Summer Challenges of Coaching Collegiate Athletes
With summer programming for athletes, control what you can control and don't sweat the rest.
Single-Legged and Semi-Functional?
Single-Legged and Semi-Functional?
Can proper implementation of unilateral exercise produce healthier, higher-performing athletes?
Identity Crisis: Who Are You in the Fitness Industry?
Identity Crisis: Who Are You in the Fitness Industry?
The expense of climbing the wrong mountain is falling back down before finding the right one. Choose wisely.
Reborn and Revived: Marines Vet Hank Goff Rediscovers Joy Through Football
Reborn and Revived: Marines Vet Hank Goff Rediscovers Joy Through Football
Worn down by war, Marine veteran Hank Goff rediscovers joy through football.
Have We Lost Trust in Our Foundation?
Have We Lost Trust in Our Foundation?
In your search of what is new and exciting, do not forget the principles that are proven to produce success.
The Responsibilities of a Strength Coach: How Much is Too Much?
The Responsibilities of a Strength Coach: How Much is Too Much?
With all the new technology for improving athletic performance, strength coaches should remember why they are there in the first place.
Technology In College Football: Using Their Brains To Get More Brawn
Technology In College Football: Using Their Brains To Get More Brawn
From the Stone Age into the Information Age: How College football player's are using their brains to get more brawn.
Powerlifting is a Science. Be the Scientist.
Powerlifting is a Science. Be the Scientist.
Approach your training and your progress with the mindset of a problem-solver. Sometimes this means asking others for help and sometimes this means figuring shit out for yourself.
Promoting Powerlifting to Young Lifters
Promoting Powerlifting to Young Lifters
Having the opportunity to bring up the next generation of strength athletes is a task as much as a privilege. Use your influence wisely.
Bodybuilders Dying Young: Are Steroids to Blame?
Bodybuilders Dying Young: Are Steroids to Blame?
Doctors and strength athletes frequently argue over the effects (good and bad) of performance-enhancing drugs, but some facts aren't debatable.
Lessons from the 2015 CSCCa Conference
Lessons from the 2015 CSCCa Conference
In constant strive to get better as a coach and staff, these six things will prove useful.
Mythbusters 101: Don't Fall for These Fallacies
Mythbusters 101: Don't Fall for These Fallacies
Bad information is passed from lifter to lifter, website to website. Let's end the charade.
Should Athletes Powerlift in the Off-Season?
Should Athletes Powerlift in the Off-Season?
Whether you're an off-season athlete or an athlete who isn't getting everything you want out of your school's team sports, powerlifting can be a viable option in your yearly process.
Layover Thoughts
Layover Thoughts
Gabriel muses about his needs versus his wants.
Understanding Huge
Understanding Huge
Pack in the calories and pack on the pounds. Does your stomach have what it takes to eat like Chad Aichs?
What to Expect From a Supplement Company Sponsorship
What to Expect From a Supplement Company Sponsorship
Every aspiring lifter in this industry dreams of being sponsored by their favorite brand. But does the reality stack up to the fantasy.
Pre-Season Training for the Part-Time Athlete
Pre-Season Training for the Part-Time Athlete
This program outline gives you the ability to insert the gym-based training, conditioning, and specialized development that addresses your individual pre-season needs.
 Westside vs The Russian Conjugate System
Westside vs The Russian Conjugate System
Is the Russian conjugate system superior to the Westside conjugate system? Are they they same?
The Results from an Off-Season of a Low Dosing Training Protocol
The Results from an Off-Season of a Low Dosing Training Protocol
We cut the time in the gym and on the field, hoping to increase efficiency. Now we find out: did it work?
Living and Training as a Bipolar Narcoleptic: Changes and The Future
Living and Training as a Bipolar Narcoleptic: Changes and The Future
I have my own demons to keep in line. They're a product of my disorders and I've learned to accept this.
Are You Consuming, Producing or Engaging?
Are You Consuming, Producing or Engaging?

Proper communication and behavior requires a firm understanding of your surroundings and of those with whom you interact.

How To Program Your Training for Kettlebell Sport
How To Program Your Training for Kettlebell Sport

Two programs outline how to use the ballistic methods of kettlebell training to improve joint mobility and strengthen ligaments and tendons for a competitive edge.

How and Why I Dieted to 7-Percent Body Fat: Show Day
How and Why I Dieted to 7-Percent Body Fat: Show Day

The time has come to make final preparations and step on stage. Here are thoughts and reflections from this demanding journey.

7 Tips to Ace Your Interview as an Exercise Science Student
7 Tips to Ace Your Interview as an Exercise Science Student

Are you blowing your interview by blowing off your preparation?

What to Expect as a Strength and Conditioning Intern
What to Expect as a Strength and Conditioning Intern

In this industry, you start at the bottom and work your way up. Level your expectations, respect those who give you the opportunity, and be ready to sacrifice for the profession you love.

Living and Training as a Bipolar Narcoleptic: Getting an Accurate Diagnosis
Living and Training as a Bipolar Narcoleptic: Getting an Accurate Diagno...

Overcoming my life-altering issues started with taking back control by seeking a clinical explanation for what I was experiencing.

The Impact of Mentors on Life Development
The Impact of Mentors on Life Development

In your lifetime, you will encounter those who beat you down and those who inspire your personal development. It is your responsibility to choose who becomes the guiding voice.

Less Work, More Results in High School Athletes
Less Work, More Results in High School Athletes

Stop burying your athletes into the ground and do only as much training as needed for optimal results.

Living and Training as a Bipolar Narcoleptic: Lack of Sleep and Depression
Living and Training as a Bipolar Narcoleptic: Lack of Sleep and Depression

It is difficult to reach the top of any sport within a hyper-competitive atmosphere. It is even more difficult with depression and sleep complications.

Investigating University of Maryland's Strength and Conditioning Blueprint
Investigating University of Maryland's Strength and Conditioning Bl...

Coach Hamer interviews strength and conditioning coach Drew Wilson from the University of Maryland to find out how he gets the Terrapins strong and ready for football season.

The Truth About Energy Systems (Part 2)
The Truth About Energy Systems (Part 2)

The breakdown of food and the conversion of nutrients to energy coincides with the body’s regulation of multiple energy systems.

The Search for Meaning
The Search for Meaning

How you spend your time on this earth determines what you define as meaningful. Does your lifestyle reflect your vision?

Exercise Selection Evolution
Exercise Selection Evolution

As your athletes grow and develop, so should the movement patterns of their program.

A Push-Up Is Not Just a Push-Up
A Push-Up Is Not Just a Push-Up

This typical throw-away, punishment exercise is in fact a highly-technical skill capable of teaching and reinforcing proper movement patterns.

Adjusting Squat Depth to Fit Your Athlete's Needs
Adjusting Squat Depth to Fit Your Athlete's Needs

Preventing lumbar flexion and maintaining a neutral spine will keep your athletes in the game and out of the rehab room.

A Simple, Quick View of Dynamic Effort Work for Athletes
A Simple, Quick View of Dynamic Effort Work for Athletes

These non-traditional methods of dynamic effort work will supercharge your athletes without sending them down the road to rehab.

The Strength Coach's Guide to Squat Variations
The Strength Coach's Guide to Squat Variations

The king of all exercises is a crucial teaching tool for your athletes.

Torso Training for Maximal Performance
Torso Training for Maximal Performance

This four-week core-development program will enhance your stability, optimize your posture, and allow your body to function how it is meant to.

Time Management Tips for Busy Athletes
Time Management Tips for Busy Athletes

Learn how to balance training, nutrition, career and family.

Stupid Training Tools: Balance Training
Stupid Training Tools: Balance Training

Why risk serious injury and a possible concussion for “bragging rights”?

LISTEN: Scott Umberger, Co-Owner and Head Physical Preparation Coach at Umberger Performance
LISTEN: Scott Umberger, Co-Owner and Head Physical Preparation Coach at ...

By integrating training methodologies from Charlie Francis on speed and programming and from Louie Simmons on strength, and tying them together with the help of James Smith on Soviet sport science, Umberger has truly created a scientific approach to training athletes.

Three-Way Matrix Upper Body Hypertrophy Emphasis
Three-Way Matrix Upper Body Hypertrophy Emphasis

If you want to upgrade to a 2XL t-shirt, this program can get that done.

General Fitness vs. Athlete Nutrition
General Fitness vs. Athlete Nutrition

Kristin shares how she approaches the nutritional needs of her clients.

Overlooked Factors in Athlete Programming
Overlooked Factors in Athlete Programming

Realize that basketball isn't just basketball, soccer isn't just soccer, and football isn't just football.

Video Interview: Success Indicators
Video Interview: Success Indicators

Have you ever wondered how to predict the success of an athlete?

Extra Workouts for College Athletes
Extra Workouts for College Athletes

Use extra workouts to aid with recovery, build work capacity, and to address weak points.

Getting the Most Out of Your Combine and Pro Day Prep
Getting the Most Out of Your Combine and Pro Day Prep

The most important thing to remember when prepping for any sort of football combine is that you aren’t getting ready for a football game.

Load Shift Training
Load Shift Training

You are only as strong as your weakest link; when that link breaks, the related injury can keep you out of the gym for an extended period of time.

Reno Hardcore: I Am An elitefts™ Athlete
Reno Hardcore: I Am An elitefts™ Athlete

I hadn’t competed in anything since college and that fire was raging again after the meet.

Garage Gyms: How to Run Groups Effectively
Garage Gyms: How to Run Groups Effectively

Your coaching facility should be a place where work is accomplished, goals are met, and pride is instilled.

Dave Tate and Julia Ladewski on Sport Training, Part 2
Dave Tate and Julia Ladewski on Sport Training, Part 2

In the second part of this two-part interview, Dave speaks to Julia Ladewski about the importance of comprehensive program in order to prevent injuries.

Facts Needed to Prevent Hamstring Strains
Facts Needed to Prevent Hamstring Strains

Once you’ve experienced a hamstring strain, you wish nothing more than for it to never have happened or at least for it to never happen again.

Our Salute
Our Salute

“The Nation today needs men who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their country’s debt to them.”
–General Omar Bradley

EFS Classic: Flexibility/Mobility: An elitefts™ Roundtable Discussion
EFS Classic: Flexibility/Mobility: An elitefts™ Roundtable Discussion

With Jim Wendler, Mark McLaughlin, Bob Youngs, Alwyn Cosgrove, Tom Deebel, Jason Ferruggia, Julia Ladewski, Dave Tate, and Mike Hope.

Training Concepts, Recovery and Knee Rehab with Buddy Morris
Training Concepts, Recovery and Knee Rehab with Buddy Morris

These videos made me realize what I needed to do in order to preserve longevitiy in doing what I love…lifting!!

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