12 Gifts to Warm the Heart of Your Anti-Social Friend
12 Gifts to Warm the Heart of Your Anti-Social Friend

There are many versions of such misanthropes around (with home gyms of their own), and while this list will make their days, months, and years, it will make any true appreciator of strength training happy.

Kettlebells for Strongman
Kettlebells for Strongman

For the Strongman athlete, kettlebells are a great accessory after your main lifts. Here are a few of my favorites for accessory work. These exercises are best done with higher reps.

WATCH: Chris Duffin Interviews Kettlebell Expert Joe Daniels
WATCH: Chris Duffin Interviews Kettlebell Expert Joe Daniels

In this first interview within a 3-part series, we discuss the commonalities in our training philosophies and address methods for staying in touch with your body.

Shrugs with Banded Kettlebells
Shrugs with Banded Kettlebells

Joey Smith gives the secret to getting “meat hooks” like his.

Kettlebells for Conditioning and Strength
Kettlebells for Conditioning and Strength

Build conditioning, power and athleticism with simple and easy-to-learn kettlebell workouts.

Elitefts™ Kettlebell Swing w/Bands (Hips &Bell)
Elitefts™ Kettlebell Swing w/Bands (Hips &Bell)

Kettlebell swings with bands around the kettlebell and bands around the hips

Elitefts™ Kettlebell Swing 101
Elitefts™ Kettlebell Swing 101

Teaching the kettlebell swing to a larger group of athletes made simple

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.

Elitefts™ Kettlebell Swing with Bands
Elitefts™ Kettlebell Swing with Bands

Using bands to produce more force and enforce good habits

How to Use Finishers for Serious Results
How to Use Finishers for Serious Results

Workout finishers have been a popular addition to the training world in the last year and for good reason.

Seriously Incorporating Strongman...Seriously
Seriously Incorporating Strongman...Seriously

Strongman training has always been considered circus sideshow-ish.

Kettlebell Lunges
Kettlebell Lunges

Kettlebell lunges

You Have to Swing Them Bells
You Have to Swing Them Bells

Before Jim Wendler goes all medieval on my arse and tells me to find a hill and sprint up it until I lose my cookies or grow a pair, indulge me for a moment.

Kettlebells Make a Good Braking System
Kettlebells Make a Good Braking System

The main functions of the core are stabilization, rotation/anti-rotation, and anti-extension.

Top Five Kettlebell Exercises for Football Strength
Top Five Kettlebell Exercises for Football Strength

Kettlebells are a perfect tool when it comes to building strength, explosiveness, and flexibility for football.

What I Learned from Running a Warehouse Gym, Part Two
What I Learned from Running a Warehouse Gym, Part Two

In my first article, I detailed how two weeks coaching taught me more than all the books, articles, blogs, and papers that I’d read in the preceding year. These three weeks taught me just as much if not more.

The Top Get Faster for Football Exercises: Part II
The Top Get Faster for Football Exercises: Part II

Any exercise that hits the hamstrings, glutes, and quads hard is going to be good for getting faster on the football field.

Walking Two-Hand Kettlebell swings
Walking Two-Hand Kettlebell swings

This exercise is an excellent movement for improving conditioning and improving strength endurance in the posterior chain.

Side Raises With KBs
Side Raises With KBs

The difference is where the weight is distributed.

Side Plank with Kettlebell
Side Plank with Kettlebell

Perform a side plank and hold a kettlebell in your top hand, with your arm extended straight.

Pistol Squat/ Single-Legged Squat
Pistol Squat/ Single-Legged Squat

This is a true single leg squat.

Parallel Rack/Catch Position
Parallel Rack/Catch Position

This is the parallel catch position to rack the kettlebell

Kettlebell Pulls with Sled Straps
Kettlebell Pulls with Sled Straps

Just loop together as many sled straps as possible to a few heavy kettlebells and go to town pulling hand over hand.

Kettlebell Farmer Walk Relays
Kettlebell Farmer Walk Relays

Notice the extra KB’s in the background.

Kettlebell Bear Crawl
Kettlebell Bear Crawl

This is a great conditioning exercise as well as a great exercise for your shoulders, abs and well, your whole body!

KB Burpee
KB Burpee

Begin this exercise with 2 kettlebells, one in each hand.

Hand-to-Hand Swing
Hand-to-Hand Swing

Increase strength-speed with a heavier kettlebell

Kettlebell Flyes with Bands
Kettlebell Flyes with Bands

This exercise is pretty simple, despite the name.

Front Raises with Kettlebells
Front Raises with Kettlebells

This movement is performed the same way you would a standard dumbbell front raise except you will be using Kettle bells.

Elbows-Out Extensions with KB
Elbows-Out Extensions with KB

Finally a way to blast your triceps for guy with beat up shoulders and elbows.

Double Kettlebell Rack Walks
Double Kettlebell Rack Walks

These are excellent for developing work capacity and strengthening your trunk and core area.

Double-Kettlebell High Pulls
Double-Kettlebell High Pulls

Another plus is that there truly is no resisting the bells on the way down.

Double Bentover Kettlebell Rows
Double Bentover Kettlebell Rows

This is an excellent substitute for bentover BB rows.

Double-Arm Swing (Squat Position)
Double-Arm Swing (Squat Position)

Initiate movement by swinging the kettlebell backwards through your legs

Double-Arm Swing (Lower Back Emphasis)
Double-Arm Swing (Lower Back Emphasis)

Increase explosiveness of hip/back extension with low reps

Bentover Rear Delt with KBs
Bentover Rear Delt with KBs

This movement is performed the same way as rear lateral raises with dumbbells.

Bear Crawl Sled Drags with Kettlebells
Bear Crawl Sled Drags with Kettlebells

This movement is one of my favorite sled training exercises, but I guess it can go here as well!

2-Hand Zercher Squat
2-Hand Zercher Squat

This is one of the easiest variations to learn to squat with.

1-Arm Swing (Squat Position)
1-Arm Swing (Squat Position)

Increase explosiveness of hip/back extension with low reps

1-Arm Hang Position
1-Arm Hang Position

Situate the kettlebell between your legs

1 Arm Kettlebell Dead Position
1 Arm Kettlebell Dead Position

This is the position from which any 1 arm pull, clean, snatch, etc will be initiated from if you opt to perform the lift from the floor.

Crazy Bell Incline Press
Crazy Bell Incline Press

It is not often that we run across a movement that is Pure Gold.

Stronger Enough, Part 1
Stronger Enough, Part 1

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

Innovative Training: Band Suspended Weight—Not Just for the Bench
Innovative Training: Band Suspended Weight—Not Just for the Bench

Using band suspended weight, Justin discusses a few movements that will not only keep your workouts challenging and fun but will turn your core into concrete.

 Warm Up Essentials
Warm Up Essentials

The cookie cutter approach to exercise doesn’t make sense to me, especially when people are stuck behind desks (sustained lumbar flexion, shortened hip flexors) all day or opt to train with movement impairments. Corrective strategies are necessary, and everyone needs to have a static and dynamic evaluation. It’s common to confuse being strong with being healthy.

 Seven Strength and Conditioning Tools for Firefighters, Part 1
Seven Strength and Conditioning Tools for Firefighters, Part 1

Have you ever grabbed one of those muscle magazines while waiting to check out at the supermarket and skimmed through it? They are filled with pictures and workouts of bodybuilders with awesome genetics who train with the primary purpose of looking good in a Speedo.

Filling in the Holes, Part II
Filling in the Holes, Part II

Previously I discussed how adding in various training tools can “fill in the holes” of standard barbell lifting. Kettlebells have gained a stronger and stronger following in the strength training community, but sleds and sandbags are two tools that have yet to gain their recognition.

Field Day
Field Day

Field day at elementary school means dunk tanks, water balloons, Italian ice, hanging with your friends, cool games and a bunch of other cool stuff.

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