The greatest powerlifter of all time has learned a thing or two about how to be the best in the world. He approaches life the same way.
Ed Coan and Dave Tate explain their rationales and favorite accessory movements and variation lifts for training weak points.
To this day, that month-long experience of a geology class at Yellowstone helped shape how I look at duration, time, patience, and longevity. That experience helped me apply the view of time to virtually all facets of life, including strength training.
“When we opened this gym, I just didn’t want it to be a gym; I wanted it to build a legacy that would always be remembered in Omaha.” Bret Carter, owner of Omaha Barbell Gym, talks about the growth of his gym and how he keeps his diverse gym membership thriving.
You see lost lifters jumping from one diet to another or from one program to the next, thinking they bought a long-lost ingredient to the stew that is strength and power. But the actual missing ingredients are right in front of them: consistency and an understanding of the basics.
When a lifter at Omaha Barbell struggles with her deadlift during a training session, Ed Coan offers her technical advice, and Dave tells her to “clear your fucking head.”
“Pull your lats in” to “slow down” are two of five cues that can make an incredible difference in the execution and lockout of your deadlift.
There is a huge list of things the sport of powerlifting has produced over these seven decades. Within this sizable list, the sport has consistently produced two specific items over and again, each and every single decade.
One such legend is Chuck Vogelpohl, widely known for his extreme intensity and longevity with regard to powerlifting competitions. In this clip, Tate and Coan address the question of what it was like to train with Chuck.
As Tate and Coan provide hands-on instruction and demonstrate proper squatting technique, the difference that their expertise makes in the athletes’ performance is clear and immediate.
Whether it was aspiring to be the next legend of the sport, reading industry magazines, or simply setting personal strength goals, once Coan and Tate got their first taste of powerlifting, they were hooked.
If you want to be relevant in the sport for years to come, you need to know how to tell the difference between the coaches and the players.
In this first part of the perspective series, I share five perspectives for you to consider as you make your initial steps into the journey that we call powerlifting.
Without that experience in their back pocket, they simply get eaten up and spit out by the industry.
There’s a lot of history shared between these two men. Now they’re adding to it.
Try this one-armed eccentric barbell curl to induce sleeve-busting growth.
I’m making some changes and have employed the knowledge of several lifting legends to answer these crucial questions.
Longevity in the sport often reveals which competitors are driven by false confidence.
It goes beyond who wins on that day or even the records posted. What legacy have you left when you hang up your belt? Goggins and Coan have enriched the sport during their decades on the platform.
It is pretty much true, you are what you eat…or you will be.
Anyone can make that good, right choice once in a while…but it takes so much more than that.
You have the power through your positive thoughts to take your powerlifting to another level of success and achievement just like Dorothy, who had the power all along to go where she needed to go.
Elitefts.com Inc Advisor & Strength Inc Founder Ed Coan answers your questions.
You would be hard pressed to find another seminar anywhere with the stacked deck in attendance at the LTT6.
Elitefts.com Inc Adviser & Strength Inc Founder Ed Coan answers your questions.
Nowadays, people can put a lot of time into mastering their supportive gear and get hundreds of pounds of carryover, especially in the squat and bench.
Enjoy the ride (including a bike ride) because it’s over too quickly.
Fads and trends ebb and flow, but there are a few things that will always remain constant.
Many strength athletes are way more than just big strong muscle heads.
We have our first Listener Feedback segment and I also check in with the three new members of Team elitefts™: Mickey Manley, Chad Walker and Marshall Johnson. The episode is one hour and eleven minutes.
Ernie can still walk in and squat 450 and deadlift 405 pounds, which is a claim that cannot be made by many people approaching their eighth decade.
When I first began powerlifting in 1993, I had about ten years of training and competing in bodybuilding under my belt. The first routine I followed when I made the switch to powerlifting was the one that Ed Coan had laid out in his training videos.