Dave Tate performs a strip set of Yoke Bar Box Squats with Chains

Elitefts Team Member Clint Darden demonstrates the EZ Squat & Bench Strap Loader set-up

More than just shirts, bands, and equipment…we are a culture.

Accommodating resistance, which is accomplished by training with bands and chains, has the ability to take your training to the next level.

Once again, Jennifer Petrosino is ready and willing to help answer your questions.

It’s an essential aspect of any great strength training routine. But are you doing it correctly?

This is part twenty-three and twenty-four of the original elitefts™ Tour De Force Strength Training Seminar (video). We will be posting all parts of this seminar so keep checking back.

This is part seventeen and eighteen of the original elitefts™ Tour De Force Strength Training Seminar (video). We will be posting all parts of this seminar so keep checking back.

This is part fifteen and sixteen of the original elitefts™ Tour De Force Strength Training Seminar (video). We will be posting all parts of this seminar so keep checking back.

Get in the shirt and learn the groove.

Wretchedness Training

EZ Bar N’ Chains

Are you looking for a better more efficient way to use chains? If so read this…

Pin pulls are used to build the top end of the deadlift…

I’ll try to give you my advice as best as I can without reviewing your strengths, weaknesses, training, etc.

If you’re familiar at all with the sport of powerlifting, the idea of using chains as a training tool is probably nothing new.

Everything is cooler with chains

Fat bar chain push ups.

The bridge (aka plank) is a very simple exercise that has managed to accomplish the feat of being both loved by many and also hated by many.

It’s as hardcore as it looks.

The correct way to set up chains.

Add a little rattle to those rows.

The Swiss Bar is good friends with the chains.

Several years ago during one of the more Olympic lifting intensive periods of my lifting career, I hit a long awaited personal record—a 420-lb push press.

Kids, don’t try this at home.

A pain-free bench press.

Video demonstration of deadlifts with chains.

Video demonstration of Floor Press With Chains And Foam.

Video demonstration of Sponge Bob Yoke Bar with Chains.

Triple Pad Press

Pressing with the fat bar.

Flat flys using chains

Many years ago, Jim Wendler and I made a trip out to ASU to see Joe Kenn and his staff.

This movement is outstanding for tricep and top end bench strength.

I then found a bench and started doing extensions.

This madness HAS to stop!

I didn’t know where to put this gem.

This exercise was recently done by Dave for higher reps (15 reps) and done as a lactic acid tolerance workout, which is code in Dave’s world for getting a big pump.

This exercise is certainly different; no barbell, dumbbell, kettlebell.

This is another Yoke variation on the standard upright row.

Do you ever do an exercise and then think to yourself, “What the hell was I doing?”

I am huge fan of the floor press and think this variation is about as good as the original.

This is not as complicated as the title suggests.

The chain press is a max effort movement to help develop the lockout power of the bench press.

This is a great exercise to increase your lockout strength and is a good variation on the standard rack lockout.

The first thing is to learn how to box squat.

Your guess is as good as mine.

Jack discusses how to encourage and prepare your child for sports.

During my training, I’ll film ONE movement and explain why I use it…

No, I am not talking about the bling around your neck, what connects your wallet to your jeans, or even the crazy S&M stuff you may secretly be guilty of!

No, I am not talking about the bling around your neck, what connects your wallet to your jeans, or even the crazy S&M stuff you may secretly be guilty of!

Those were the exact words used by one of my clients after finishing her last set of goblet squats.

Maximal effort training is a superior method of increasing strength in a core barbell lift. Make sure you aren’t misusing it.

With new and stronger squat suits and bench shirts hitting the market, more attention has been given to training the lockout. It seems most experts believe that since the lifter is doing most of the work at the top, then range of motion should be trained the most. Although common sense tells us that the suits and shirts will get us out of the bottom of the lift, I have modified my belief somewhat.