Powerlifting competitions are more than big gorillas lifting weights. Consider the aesthetics, psychomotor skills, and failures.

Cluster training methods, like many
of the less “traditional” methods, don’t get utilized enough in people’s training programs. Try them now!

Use The One Percent Method to incrementally make progress in all aspects of your life—especially training.

Explore the structural components, hormone use, and recovery that play a crucial role in determining your bodybuilding status.

The Fat Bar Theory can lead to remarkable improvements in your bench press performance.

Learn about proven tricep exercises to boost your bench press and improve performance, even if you’re dealing with elbow pain. Program included!

Explore the reasons why sometimes it’s smarter not to train and prioritize productive workouts for long-term progress.

Training through injury, the following splits pushed me through elbow surgery and a lat tear.

From neglecting technique to overtraining, learn how to overcome these seven habits and pave your way to podium wins.

Here’s a concise guide on how to understand and implement auto-regulation into your training to maximise results.

Discover the intriguing shifts in gym culture (1984 vs. 2023) and how one veteran lifter cherishes the memories while embracing the changes.

Seeking to break limits? This guide unlocks the secrets to harnessing your inner speedster.

Save your hard-earned money by learning how to train yourself. You’ll never need to hire a trainer again.

Discover why these specialty bars are indispensable for first responders and military personnel, providing unmatched value that extends far beyond the gym.

You’ve just competed, now what?Here are YOUR tips for training during the powerlifting offseason.

Discover the benefits of nonlinear training and its impact on strength, power and speed.

Extra workouts, if programmed right, can kick your training and results up a notch.

Powerlifting federations are a business first. So make sure you align yourself to a federation that speaks to your philosophy, values, and ethos.

Your biological age is different than your training age. If you’ve racked up years of training in the gym, you should learn the difference between the two.

I like to program from a metabolic, strength, or power focus. The three-day-a-week program allows more stimulation for each major area.

AJ Roberts takes a seat in this 137th podcast episode of Dave Tate’s Table Talk.

Powerbuilding is not just bodybuilding with the squat, bench press, and deadlift tacked on. It’s also not just powerlifting with accessory exercises.

Here’s the simple plan with a four-day-a-week training split of upper and lower body. Each session has four exercises that’ll take an hour to complete.

In this 117th episode of Dave Tate’s Table Talk Podcast, Joey Szatmary (@Szatstrength ) takes a seat. Joey is the gym owner of The Lions Den in Colmar, Pennsylvania. He attended Albright College and played collegiate lacrosse. Joey’s most notable athletic feat as a poly-athlete is earning the 2019 United States Strongman (USS) Heavyweight National Champion title.

Jim Wendler and Matt Rhodes to discuss training, coaching, consistency, discipline, and past Westside Barbell stories

Jim Wendler’s seminar Strength Training High School Football Players is compiled for you to implement as a coach or an athlete.

Dave Tate’s LTT8 (Learn to Train Seminar) lecture on how to best train supplemental and accessory movements for the highest outcome.

In the final episode of Season 2, Dave Tate sits down to discuss Louie Simmons’ passing and the future of Dave Tate’s Table Talk Podcast.

Dr. Stuart McGill talks about lower back pain, how personality impacts recovery, and understanding how to ACTUALLY train your core.

Sam talks about what it was like going from “Training HIS Ass Off” to “Training YOUR Ass Off” and going from a participant to an assistant.

If you’ve plateaued this training season, let Sam be your guide and deliver 3 steps to help you get stronger now.

In this episode of Dave Tate’s Table Talk, Brian Carroll and Dave sit down and share a cigar and dive into what it means on going “all in” in the gym, not wanting to train, and how the hell these little guys deadlifting so much. Don’t miss this episode, filled with banter between friends and […]

You may be wondering how speed training, training volume, and crack houses all come up in one episode. Listen to find out.

Don’t miss the return of Jim Wendler in this exciting episode celebrating 100 episodes and 1,000,000 downloads of Dave Tate’s Table Talk.

Sam Brown and Naomi Sheppard talk training and the Ghost Clash, where Naomi competed recently and finished as a top lifter.

What? Yes, you read that title correctly. Whoever said that alcohol and training don’t mix was trying to take away some good times.

Sam Brown takes over this episode to talk about exercise selection and share his exercise selection checklist.

After consulting with Ben Prentiss and implementing with my athletes, here’s a BRIEF description of the system. Download the 12-week program!

Take a deep dive into how you can work conjugate into your training if you are restricted by what your commercial gym offers.

Dave and Sam sit down to discuss what growth means, Dave’s best raw lifts, their training updates, and 1RM testing for football players.

Learn how to mitigate injury while under the bar and get the inside scoop on how Sam is peaking for his meet.

Don’t miss Dave and Sam going in-depth into why scratched bars are such a big deal and Dave’s life strategies he shares with Sam.

Dave Tate and Sam Brown discuss how injuries can make you better, perceived maxes, and Squid Game? What’s going on?

Dave Tate and Sam Brown talk about how Dave enters the void, their thoughts on max effort training, and trying geared lifting.

Dave Tate’s Table Talk is BACK for the 2nd season and the first episode back covers strength topics such as surgery, autoregulation, and more.

In this program, you will use strength and conditioning, and all of the gears in between to be an energy-efficient player. Consider this an extension of my sumo deadlift article published in January of 2021.

Now, it’s time to expect the unexpected, ask questions, be proactive, continue your own education, take it to the edge, sacrifice, present yourself accordingly, hustle, and seven more to-dos (part three of three)!

Skimping out on accessory work because you don’t have enough time? Get a nasty pump with giant sets and kiss your time constraints goodbye.

This program is for those of us who love to train but don’t compete, want to look better, maintain strength, and be able to show our kids who’s boss.

We should not lose sight of the benefits that bodyweight training provides. Take a break from the barbell and machines and try Prison Squats, Nordic Leg Curls, Jump Squats, and Jump Tucks for newfound strength and explosiveness.

Believe it or not, you don’t need the assistance of a research team to make your training, health, and life decisions. Here’s how to navigate through your uniqueness from identification to decision making.

Conjugate training can make a huge difference in track and field athletes’ overall performance. For throwers in particular, give this conjugate workout a try and see the improvement for yourself.

This is a question that we need to ask ourselves as many times as possible year after year because everything we do on a daily basis needs to be grounded on our answer.

It seems that lifters do not understand the importance of the upper back or how to use it in the three main lifts. The lifters I judged at a recent meet and just about all of my clients prove that to me, so let’s fix that.

In a published journal article, we examined 31 football players on the 225 Test (and we also collected some velocity data, so hold on to your hats for future publications from this data set) to see if this test made any difference in playing time.

Believe it or not, it is possible to train multiple qualities at the same time. Athletes all over the world are training that way and making huge strides.

I have left collegiate strength and conditioning because I’m concerned with where we’re going as a profession. I still want to be a positive force for the profession, but I’m not sure how to help. I’ll try to keep being a voice of change for positivity.

Here, in this article, you will find the answer to why accomplished coaches and athletes I’ve been fortunate enough to know gravitate toward the iron and have made it a core element of their life.