This four-week core-development program will enhance your stability, optimize your posture, and allow your body to function how it is meant to.
This basic template gives you five, 14-day microcycles to revamp that old-school program and give you new-age gains.
Build conditioning, power and athleticism with simple and easy-to-learn kettlebell workouts.
Six REAL factors to getting strong, not the same crap we’ve read over and over… and over again. Seriously, how many times do we have to be told to train hard, be consistent, follow a program and eat right? Those may not even matter anyhow but these do.
One of the most important lessons is not learning how to accomplish your goals, but rather how to carry yourself once you do.
“Throughout the years, the deadlift has been our ”national sport” here in Finland, and world records have been broken since the early ’70s. But what makes Finns pull so much? What is their secret ? I wanted to know the answer, and after collecting training information of many new and former greats, here is what I found.”
My injuries have taken me from meet platform to operating table and back again.
Those extra 15 sets of leg extensions are fun, but do they help you?
Dr. Squat turns The Real Deal into a more destructive, pugilistic powerhouse.
Move that Ford Escort to the driveway, toss that box of old high school trophies in the trash; it’s time to get serious.
This program combines undulatory loading with a conjugate approach for an open-fisted slap of strength-building goodness.
This article is dedicated to all those involved in the greatest season for strength coaches…the summer!
Regardless of your training objectives, key training parameters could be varied and progressed on different time scales
I want to offer a personal counterpoint to this idea that Westside style programming is only applicable to elite or enhanced lifters.
You might have your training plan right but your recovery plan wrong.
Do not just blindly follow this training template with your teams, but experiment with elements of it and come up with what works best in your own environment.
Respiratory muscle training may be the weak link in your training program.
Asking the right questions is a fundamental skill that can help you operate at the highest level possible.
Within strength and conditioning, some studies indicate that strength training and endurance training are like oil and water.
Thank goodness we got away from jogging a few laps before a ground—based warm—up.
The problem for many is distinguishing who is authentic, who is not, and who is a pseudo expert.
Elitefts Pro Powerlifter Marshall Johnson details how he implements cardio into his training program.
I think the biggest and hardest change for me was learning to train less.
My running theme when I do any kind of public speaking is to make the audience laugh and make the people who actually hired me cringe.
Elitefts.com Inc founder Dave Tate picks his top 10 articles for May 2013.
Not fitting through the doorways and staircases coupled with the fact that I have been training to look huge and yummy but really haven’t done any cardio rendered me just about useless after about three trips up and down those steps.
David “Deacon” Jones revolutionized the defensive line position after 14 seasons in the NFL.