Stan Efferding joins us on Dave Tate’s Table Talk to talk about everything related to lifting, business, and health. Watch Stan’s episode now.
Dave and Sam sit down to discuss what growth means, Dave’s best raw lifts, their training updates, and 1RM testing for football players.
Here, in this article, you will find the answer to why accomplished coaches and athletes I’ve been fortunate enough to know gravitate toward the iron and have made it a core element of their life.
My niece and nephew recently took weightlifting classes, and I am baffled by what they are being taught. This information is not only wrong, but it puts them at greater risk of injury. Quality knowledge is easily accessible, so why are we stuck in this loop of bad information?
Getting a new tattoo doesn’t mean you have to throw the bar down and not step foot in a gym for two months. What it does mean is that you need to ensure you don’t do anything reckless for the first couple of months.
When Kendall Alston and his crew approached me with the idea of filming a documentary about what a normal day in my life looks like—and not simply my lifting or my coaching—it hit my like a breath of fresh air. This video is the result.
To get your strongest in the fastest way possible, you need to focus on training as a whole. Every aspect needs attention and focus.
Is winning all that matters or is participation the purpose of competition? This is the final article in this series.
There are two types of adversity you will experience as a lifter: the stress you can plan for and the stress you can’t. How will this effect determine your path in life and in the gym?
Worked well for Cain, not so well for Abel.
There’s certainly a time and place to test your strength, occasionally in the gym and always on the platform.
We often need to be put into a new and bigger or more competitive environment to continue to grow as a person.
A year has come and gone since I last penned an article; coincidentally, it has also been approximately the same amount of time since my last major weightlifting injury.
As a high school strength coach, my biggest challenge is preparing kids to lift correctly.
I became acquainted with Bob Youngs well over a decade ago when the internet and lifting forums were still in their infancy. Like many aspiring lifters, Bob served as my guide when I was somewhat lost in the dark, weightlifting wilderness.
College is a wonderful place. It’s the transitional phase between being nestled securely at home close to your mother’s teat and being thrust out into the real world, which I can assure you, is an awful place once you truly appreciate your time in college.
Figure 3 exhibits an example of the progression of strength from the developmental strength workout for the compulsory age group.
As gymnastics coaches, sometimes we get caught up in sport-specific strength training because that’s what we know best. The belief is that if we strength train for sport-specific movements repetitiously, the gymnast will not only become stronger during those movements but will have less cause for injury. However, it is that frame of mind in which we fail as coaches.
I am busy as all heck, as always, and I am in the process of getting away from working so much and doing all of this full time.
