Strength: Beyond the Barbell
Strength: Beyond the Barbell
Strength takes courage, determination, and compassion.
Why Use Sled Towing in Training?
Why Use Sled Towing in Training?
Whether you want to work your hamstrings or your quadriceps, the attachment point of the sled is critical.
Calories Redux (Bulking and Cutting for the Natural Athlete)
Calories Redux (Bulking and Cutting for the Natural Athlete)
Think you have to gain mass before you can add lean muscle? Think again.
Picking Your Prowler® Flu Poison
Picking Your Prowler® Flu Poison
Which Prowler® is best for you?
Strength and Conditioning for Rugby: Must Haves
Strength and Conditioning for Rugby: Must Haves
After recently being let go by the Australian Rugby Union, I've had time to contemplate what is important in rugby strength and conditioning—basically the "must haves" rather than the "nice to haves."
People Do What Works
People Do What Works
It's often a challenge to train an unmotivated client or a client with special needs. However, if you can apply some basic behavioral fundamentals, you can be empowered to take control of your training sessions and help your client reach his/her goals.
Power on Ice: Training Routines of the World’s Best Bobsled and Skeleton Athletes
Power on Ice: Training Routines of the World’s Best Bobsled and Skeleton...
These guys and gals are jacked. They are serious about their training and every bit as strong and fast as they look… and then some.
Develop Speed with the Tear Regime
Develop Speed with the Tear Regime
With this method, speed won't only be admired and pursued...it will be attained.
5/3/1 and 40
5/3/1 and 40
A training program is not "one size fits all." As Jesse Rosenberger discovered, you will have your own keepers, mistakes, preferences, and throwbacks.
Six New Uses for the Prowler®
Six New Uses for the Prowler®
If you are like most, you have a Love-Hate relationship with the Prowler®. However, if you are only using it to work up a case of the Prowler® flu, you are missing out on these other great uses. (Plus, you may even get to keep your breakfast).
Training for Fitness Versus Training for Performance
Training for Fitness Versus Training for Performance
Time serves as the main tenet behind goal setting and management. Time is also what separates the training of two qualities that are misinterpreted by fitness professionals and clients alike.
Shifting Paradigm: Strength/Power/Speed
Shifting Paradigm: Strength/Power/Speed

Strength, power, and speed are all interesting concepts on their own, and each has its place in a strength and conditioning program.

Top Five Most Hated Prowler Exercises
Top Five Most Hated Prowler Exercises

The Prowler is one of the best conditioning tools around.

MC Rehab Strongman 2012
MC Rehab Strongman 2012

Big “D” took the win with a record shattering 1200-lb Prowler® push!

Setting Up a Strongman Program
Setting Up a Strongman Program

Setting up a strongman program is no different than any other type of program.

Strengthening Your Core (Values)
Strengthening Your Core (Values)

With many great things, the precise point of origin is not always obvious.

Meathead Inc. – Prowler® Parenting
Meathead Inc. – Prowler® Parenting

After about a half-hour of this sheer craziness, we all found ourselves laying on the front lawn of our new house laughing and talking while attempting to catch our breath.

How to Use the Sled for Virtually Everything
How to Use the Sled for Virtually Everything

How many of you in the “elitefts™ family” have a sled, Prowler®, or homemade version of one of these?

Five Things Powerlifters Can Learn from Bodybuilders (Part 2)
Five Things Powerlifters Can Learn from Bodybuilders (Part 2)

This is part two of a two- part series discussing lessons that bodybuilders and powerlifters can share with each other.

The Secret to Increasing Strength & Conditioning
The Secret to Increasing Strength & Conditioning

Are you stuck and can’t seem to find a way to break though to the next level? Read on…

Lessons from My Father
Lessons from My Father

This article is about the things I learned from my father growing up and how they’ve impacted my fitness.

Pride Kills Progress
Pride Kills Progress

Everyone has his ‘go to’ exercise or routine.

Surviving Smolov
Surviving Smolov

From August to October of 2011, I did the Smolov squat routine for no reason other than I just wanted to.

Programming Step by Step
Programming Step by Step

I hope this article gets everyone thinking in very simple terms and approaching programming your training with this step by step approach.

Keep the Weight On the Bar
Keep the Weight On the Bar

You can’t live in the past, future, and present.

10 Strongman Ways to Irritate Your Neighbors...Guaranteed
10 Strongman Ways to Irritate Your Neighbors...Guaranteed

After reviewing this list, I realize how devious I’ve become in my old age.

Four Pre-Season Football Conditioning Drills with the Prowler
Four Pre-Season Football Conditioning Drills with the Prowler

Are your football conditioning drills getting you into game shape or simply sprint shape?

Cardio for Meatheads
Cardio for Meatheads

When it comes to cardiovascular exercise, many gym goers either flat out don’t care or they toss in a lackadaisical 30-minute session on the elliptical following their weight work.

Real World Testing for Football Players: It Isn't Just a Numbers Game
Real World Testing for Football Players: It Isn't Just a Numbers Game

Players spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours each year preparing for combines at all levels.

Partial Lifts, Sleds, and Concentric-Only Lifts for Super Football Strength Building In-Season
Partial Lifts, Sleds, and Concentric-Only Lifts for Super Football Stren...

If there’s one area where most football players really drop the ball, it’s in-season strength training.

Seven Habits of Highly Effective Football Strength Training Programs
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Football Strength Training Programs

Just as all great football teams have common traits (good defense, team work, great coaching), all football strength programs share common qualities that set them apart from the pack.

Seven Steps for Building the Perfect High School Lineman
Seven Steps for Building the Perfect High School Lineman

Here are the seven steps for building the perfect high school lineman.

Limited Edition Military Prowlers Benefit Wounded Warrior Project
Limited Edition Military Prowlers Benefit Wounded Warrior Project

The Prowler is a great tool that can dramatically improve your athlete’s conditioning levels – just make sure you’re thinking critically about the ways you’re implementing it into their training programs and the results will speak for themselves.

Six Lateral Strength Exercises for Crazy Football Speed
Six Lateral Strength Exercises for Crazy Football Speed

Here are six lateral strength exercises you can use in your training program to ensure that you’re building real world game speed.

Top 10 Football Training Tools for Under $75
Top 10 Football Training Tools for Under $75

When it comes to football strength training, I’m a simple man.

Beast Reality Volume 1, Issue 2: APA 2010 New England Winter Iron Bash and Other Brilliant Warehouse Gym Tales
Beast Reality Volume 1, Issue 2: APA 2010 New England Winter Iron Bash a...

Do you ever have those surreal moments in life? They seem to occur more frequently as I grow older.

Equipment 101: The Prowler
Equipment 101: The Prowler

We are the home of the original Prowler…and not to mention…Prowler Flu.

Shove it! Top Pushing Moves
Shove it! Top Pushing Moves

Whether you’re a professional MMA athlete or an “everyday population” client, make sure you include effective, functional pushing exercises into your workouts.

Life Lessons from the 'Prowler’
Life Lessons from the 'Prowler’

How many of you out there have used the Prowler?

Ten Prowler Variations
Ten Prowler Variations

We have come to love but also hate the Prowler, but none of us can deny the benefits of this equipment in terms of building strength, endurance, speed, and also mental toughness in our athletes.

“Fab Five Finishers” for MMA Conditioning
“Fab Five Finishers” for MMA Conditioning

If you’ve ever witnessed or participated in a metabolic circuit designed for combat athletes, you’ve seen hard core.

Five Football Conditioning Workouts for Offensive and Defensive Linemen
Five Football Conditioning Workouts for Offensive and Defensive Linemen

There are still way too many football teams that base their entire conditioning program around jogging or jogging-related running.

Train like a Badass
Train like a Badass

Tired of doing the same boring things?

Slosh Sled Dragging: Advanced Chaotic Sled Dragging
Slosh Sled Dragging: Advanced Chaotic Sled Dragging

Don’t be fooled, this is highly metabolic and will jack up your heart rate very quickly.

Intimidating Iron Looms in Pennsylvania
Intimidating Iron Looms in Pennsylvania

Once people come down here, they’re hooked.

Prowler Bear Crawls
Prowler Bear Crawls

This movement is f*$%ing ruthless on the lower body.

Five Ways to Avoid Loafing
Five Ways to Avoid Loafing

We came up with five ways to ensure Hanley Ramirez won’t loaf anymore

Treadmill Pushing: The Solution to the Prowler-less Gym
Treadmill Pushing: The Solution to the Prowler-less Gym

Keir discusses treadmill pushing and how it offers the same benefits as sled pushing (albeit in varying degrees) but with a number of additional advantages.

The Prowler Flu: There's No Vaccination
The Prowler Flu: There's No Vaccination

It’s amazing, these guys can lift things as heavy as nine of me put together…but they stand no chance against the prowler.

There's No Vaccination
There's No Vaccination

There is no vaccination for the Prowler Flu.

SPP and the High School Athlete
SPP and the High School Athlete

Each year, schools and parents spend thousands of dollars to send children to the top sports camps, coaches, and programs. However, there isn’t any camp or coach that can replace the athlete’s own strength.

10 Things that DON'T Suck
10 Things that DON'T Suck

Don’t suck! Jim and Rachel are the authorities on AWESOMENESS.

Practical Applied Stress Training (P.A.S.T) For Tactical Athletes
Practical Applied Stress Training (P.A.S.T) For Tactical Athletes

In recent years, there has been a paradigm shift in how the tactical community – for example SWAT teams, special operations military and others – approaches it’s PT training designed to better prepare them for the job.

The Prowler Flu World Tour
The Prowler Flu World Tour

While everyone’s attention is tightly focused on health care…..

Prowler & Kettlebell Conditioning
Prowler & Kettlebell Conditioning

Working the prowler is downright brutal for conditioning and VERY applicable for combative athletes.

Prowler Bear Crawls
Prowler Bear Crawls

I LOVE the prowler and the prowler loves me!

Prowler Tricep Extensions
Prowler Tricep Extensions

To set this up, we attached a sled strap to the Prowler and then attached the blast straps (see picture).

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