EFS Classic: Top Five Lifts for Football
EFS Classic: Top Five Lifts for Football

If you’re a football coach or a strength coach for football, check this out. It may give you some ideas.

elitefts™ Classic: Athletic Preparation or Destruction
elitefts™ Classic: Athletic Preparation or Destruction

The Process of Attaining Sports Mastery (PASM) is a multi-year and tremendously complex endeavor. The PASM encompasses the training and development of every conceivable physical, psychological, technical, and tactical component of sport performance.

Elite Total at the SPF Ironman Classic
Elite Total at the SPF Ironman Classic

This was the wildest and best meet weekend ever.

 How to Set Up on the Deadlift
How to Set Up on the Deadlift

Most of the time, you’ll see the deadlift performed like a cat taking a shit. You know what I mean—the arch and twitch technique? There are a ton of reasons why someone would deadlift this way:

Corporate Strength—Knowledge Management
Corporate Strength—Knowledge Management

But you know what? The seriousness of the situation is your fault. Not because you were messing around with his girlfriend at the time, but because you did not prepare yourself and your business to accommodate the impact of this type of situation.

Static Postural Assessments
Static Postural Assessments

After college, I strength trained at a chiropractic rehabilitation facility for a few years. While there, I picked up a few helpful tips that I still use today when initiating static postural assessments for my athletes.

Benefits of a Strength and Conditioning Program
Benefits of a Strength and Conditioning Program

If you’re reading this, you probably have a good understanding of why strength and conditioning is important. However, I’d like to reach the coaches, athletic directors, and lazy athletes who will never reach their potential because of a lack of education.

The Ulterior Motive
The Ulterior Motive

It seems like yesterday when I first set up the Q&A section on EliteFTS.com. I still remember answering the first question back in the winter of 1998. It was about the dynamic bench press, and I knew this would turn out to be a great thing. What I didn’t know at the time was how great it would become.

The P-40 Warhawk and the Athlete
The P-40 Warhawk and the Athlete

It seems that during WWII the U.S. was losing a large number of aircrafts during various missions. Obviously, the job of flying these planes was a treacherous one, and you could assume that the casualty rate was very high. But something else was wrong.

The Individualization of Team Training
The Individualization of Team Training

In many instances team weight training consists of athletes of varying levels of strength preparedness- all performing the same training parameters.

The Significance of Specific Strength Development in MMA
The Significance of Specific Strength Development in MMA

As the sport of MMA progresses so must the specific means and methods of fighter training.

Lift Like a Gym Rat, Kick Like a Mule
Lift Like a Gym Rat, Kick Like a Mule

Gym accidents are not funny. They may cause serious physical injury that may have both short and unfortunately long-term consequences. So it’s with mixed feelings that I relate another “Legend of Iron Smith Gym” incident.

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