A shorter range of motion means a bigger bench. Here’s how to get your chest closer to the bar without taking your ass off the bench.

There’s nothing wrong with trying the newest, flashy technique, but if you don’t know how it will help your team, stick to the basics.

The most basic source of recovery is free and easy, powerful enough to improve your strength and conditioning without resorting to any prescribed medication. Are you taking full advantage of it?

These six missteps of sports training could keep your athletes small and weak — or worse, injured on the sideline.

In a downward slump, my training has started to look up. I attribute this to one simple programming tactic.

Bodybuilders are known for splitting weekly training into specific body parts per day. Will the same approach work for athletes?

An overload of information may tempt you to abandon your plan when something new comes along. Pick a program, one program, and stay committed.

The first installment of a three-part series, this article discusses the first step of mastering the bench press: learning optimal setup.

We all need kicked in the teeth every once in a while.

This problem started to creep up on us several years ago and I only see it getting worse.

With proper consideration of neural, mechanical, and metabolic elements, this podcast covers the methods used for developing a proper pre-season plan.

Stop beating yourself up after hitting a sticking point in your training. Figure out what the problem is and fix it. These tips will help the troubleshooting process.

The style of your coaching and the content of your program say a lot about you as a coach. If someone questions your approach, do you have an answer?

Personal training is like any other craft, it takes time and perseverance through many mistakes to master. I recently reflected on my climb as a professional.

When moments of failure start to cloud your perspective of training, you need to return to your core philosophy. Asking these questions will force you to refocus on the big picture.

A proper weight room strategy provides adequate attention to the development of strength and size — two qualities necessary for your team’s improvement.

Men and women have different needs. Pay attention to these eleven factors when programming for your female clients.

The success of your program depends on your ability to balance what your head coach wants to do, what you want to do, and what your team really needs.

Communicating with your athletes and ensuring you have a mutual understanding of goals and systems is vital to improving the physical capabilities of your players.

There’s a way to know if your genetics suck — but not until you’ve given 100%. If you don’t spend enough time trying, you’ll never know.

A lot of people disagree about how often you should deadlift in the gym, if at all. For 13 years of competing, this is how I trained my deadlift.

Now that we’ve tackled the squat, let’s break down the bench set up and introduce a cue system to use during every set.

This revision and reconsideration of the ‘block’ misnomer helped me better understand concentrated loading and produced a new way to program each lift.

When you test your clients, are you using the assessment to improve a fitness quality or simply to make yourself appear knowledgeable?

These warm-up movements will build strength and power while keeping your body unilaterally symmetrical.

Trends dominate the personal training industry. Rely on self-education to determine the difference between what sounds good and what IS good.

Your yearly setup is complete. Now let’s look at individual days and how to program main, supplemental, and accessory exercises.

Use these cues and coaching methods to teach an inexperienced lifter how to squat safely and build a foundation for future strength.

When it comes to training athletes in the weight room, remember that just because you love science doesn’t mean your athletes do. Learn to speak their language.

The bench press is typically the weakest lift for women. It’s no mystery why—they require a targeted approach.

Using sustainable methods, Tarra has been able to grow from wobbly softball player to unstoppable powerlifter. This is her story.

Don’t build a false sense of security by relying on bands and chains. Remember this fact: straight weight trumps all.

Breaking into this profession is difficult and requires determination and sacrifice but if you’re in it for the right reasons, that won’t be a problem.

If you’re a woman who holds a supervisory role in a male-dominated field, you’re going to encounter unique challenges. These four principles have helped me improve management processes.

With your qualifying meet out of the way, you now have an opportunity to return to building mode before starting a peaking cycle for your next meet.

These strength and performance methods for positions 9, 10, and 12 maximize individual player abilities on the field and produce more capable athletes.

These 6-week max effort and 4-week dynamic effort waves have taken Casey’s raw bench to 540 pounds. Watch as he explains his approach to chasing 600 and how you can use his methods yourself.

Strength is a journey, not a quick fix. Take the time to choose your tools correctly and create something indestructible.

These 10 coaching mistakes can hurt you, your team, and your entire program. Are you making any of them?

With all the energy Clint spends on being a chaotic animal in the weightroom, is he vulnerable to central nervous shutdown?

There are a lot of factors involved in being a good strength athlete. From most to least important, here is my list of what you need to excel in this industry. Do you have them all?

With the first two phases behind you, it’s time to move into higher gear for the first meet of the year. Are you ready to apply what you learned in weeks 1-13?

How prepared are freshmen athletes for the rigors of strength and conditioning at the collegiate level? A recent survey asked this question and the results are in contention.

I have made the mistake of letting other programs distract me from my own. It is a waste of time and effort and I vow to never do it again.

The path of continual progress includes some these important programming specialties: don’t add techniques you are ready for and don’t become stale.

These three velocity-based sessions build the trainable aspects of athletic speed development.

Following an early GPP phase, the yearly program moves toward variations of competition movements and learning which exercises you’ll need later on.

I was stupid, and lazy, and it led to a freak accident. Remember this when you’re training: as soon as confidence becomes arrogance, you’re in trouble.

I feared a life without training. When I saw that fear become a reality, I knew it was time to seek professional help.

It isn’t the squats. It isn’t the cleans, nor the reverse hypers or pull-ups.

As you focus on moving maximum weight on squats, benches and deadlifts, wimpy isolation movements just don’t have a place. Or do they?

The emphasis is always on the athletes, but keep in mind, in order to be a productive leader, you must go through what you’re asking others to do.

Dave answers your questions from Instagram in 15 seconds or less.

Are you still searching for the holy grail of programs? Here it is, in all its perfection.

Is your program letting you down? These three aspects of Triphasic Training will repair the damage of repetitive incompetency.

With a variety of unique, specialized equipment, you can program to address a multitude of player strengths and weaknesses.