Let me cut right to the chase here—I’m asking for your help. And it has to do with cancer.

Joe DeFranco is full of shit. There I said it. If you have a problem with that statement, then you are wrong.

We all have our dreams, but it’s rare for many of us to ever achieve them. Months ago, I was intrigued by an article on the ADCC website about Royler Gracie’s challenge to Gracie Barra.

What I intend to offer you is an example of what has helped me increase my own lifts.

This letter is to inform you that I am resigning from my position as head strength and conditioning coach. I enjoyed my time while at the university and feel grateful for the knowledge and friendships that I have gained. I feel I owe it to you to offer an explanation as to why I have made this decision.

We’ve had the EFS Professional 45-degree back raise in the EFS weight room for about 2–3 years. It’s the best low back strengthener I’ve ever used.

I am a powerlifter. One of my great passions in life is spending time in the gym lifting heavy weights. To this day, I cannot think of anything more satisfying than setting a hard earned personal record. Well, let’s just say there are very few things that are more satisfying.

“There are a hundred ways to skin a cat, I am only good at one of them”, is something my grandfather used to say to me all the time.

The number 3 is held in reverence by many people. Of course, the title of this article is in reference to the Roman Empire and where would we be without them?

The past couple of months have been the busiest of my life. My business is growing at a rapid pace and there are many “growing pains” that go along with this growth.

Most periodized training programs for athletes follow a Western or linear model.

I sometimes wonder if there are any prerequisites at all to getting a job as college strength and conditioning coach.

“Strength is an essential component of all human performance and its formal development can no longer be neglected in the preparation of any athlete”

One of the first pressing, inquisitive minds who stepped on the face of this earth was Socrates.

The individual control and systematic manipulation of volumetric management is largely dependant upon the proper integration of critical training variables.

The reason to couple super compensation work with training work is simple, gain a reciprocative function of the fatigue-frequency relationship more often in a training stage.

When planning a training protocol, one must take into account the value of work administered in terms of function and time.

Maybe it’s because I found out the hard way that you must vent information through a screen door in order to attain measurable improvements every training session in the real world. Maybe it’s because I have been doing research lately on American training strategies and I got a swift kick of deja vu.

The training process must include a critical and determined degree of fatigue, followed by an appropriate duration to which Reserve Strength may be elicited.

The individual control and systematic manipulation of volumetric management is largely dependant upon the proper integration of critical training variables. Specifically, these elements that must be monitored in training for sport can be generally classified into the broad category of measurement.

One of the most asked questions throughout the day was “What would you have done differently, if you knew what you know now?” And though I answered the question as best I could, I couldn’t help but rethink the question over and over.

When discussing training, there are many things to consider, such as speed work, building absolute strength, improving form, raising work capacity, recuperation, and selecting exercises and rotating them them in proper sequence to avoid adaptation.

Get fast and slam a big log up overhead. As an added bonus your bench will go up too.

This article is all about you, as a unique individual, training for your goals and based on your needs.

What do you call it when someone makes a bonehead mistake in training? I am going to muster up all of my will power and be nice this time as I liken it to the baseball player that has fallen prone to poor pitch selection- swinging at bad pitches

The other day I got off the phone with a friend of mine who coaches college football. I told him that I had recently consulted with Dave Tate about applying the Westside principles for a college football player