How Strong is Strong Enough?
How Strong is Strong Enough?

To answer this question, we need to define strength. But there are many ways to define strength, so we all have to come up with our own method for defining strength. For me, it’s the squat.

5 Exercises to Get Your Bench Press Moving Again
5 Exercises to Get Your Bench Press Moving Again

If your bench press is rusty and you need to take it easy, try some of these lifts out. (elitefts Power Rack and dip attachments are highly recommended but not included.)

Sisyphus Stumbles
Sisyphus Stumbles

During the second double of a floor press training session, his pec tears. The bar crashes to the safety pins, inches above his face. For at least the twentieth time, the Collegiate Power Rack saves his ass.

5 Coaching Rants to Reframe and Apply
5 Coaching Rants to Reframe and Apply

Layering thousands of coaching hours on the floor with successes and failures, I think I know what works and what doesn’t work.

Training Through Injury: The Edema Press
Training Through Injury: The Edema Press

A broken back doesn’t mean you can’t build your bench. Try this movement to teach better stability through squeezing your glutes and bracing your abs.

Setting Up Chains
Setting Up Chains

The correct way to set up chains.

Swiss Bar Floor Press with Chains
Swiss Bar Floor Press with Chains

The Swiss Bar is good friends with the chains.

JM Floor Press with Chains
JM Floor Press with Chains

Kids, don’t try this at home.

Floor Press Off Pins

Smash through sticking points.

Floor Press With Chains And Foam

Video demonstration of Floor Press With Chains And Foam.

Foam Floor Press
Foam Floor Press

Video demonstration of the foam floor press.

Fat Bar Floor Press

Floor Pressing using Fat Bar and rest pause method.

Floor Press - Dumbbells
Floor Press - Dumbbells

It is a great lockout builder for the bench press.

Barbell Leverage Floor Press

Lay on the floor with your head directly between the two bars.

Floor Press w/ Chains
Floor Press w/ Chains

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

Fat Bar Floor Press Lockout with Chains

This is not as complicated as the title suggests.

5 Board Floor Press
5 Board Floor Press

The 5 Board Floor Press is performed just like a regular 5 Board Press except that you are lying on the floor.

4 Board Floor Press
4 Board Floor Press

The 4 Board Floor Press is performed just like a regular 4 Board Press except that you are lying on the floor.

Training with the Log
Training with the Log

We will look at three different exercises that you can do with the log: floor presses, training complexes, and font squats.

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