Running around and practicing soccer skills while wearing a weighted vest, attaching a band to a hockey stick or a baseball bat, and a myriad of other ridiculous activities in the weight room do not count as sport-specific activities.
This program is used for athletes ranging in age from 10 to 14 years and is based on specific goals in the primer, strength, conditioning, prehabilitation, and regeneration phases.
Mental strength and physical strength are two necessary components for a healthy, happy life of abundance, but you have to get uncomfortable to start building them.
What is true in the gym is true in life. Everything is about strength and overcoming adversity.
If you’re one of those guys who thinks anything outside of plates on a bar is blaspheme, give me five minutes to convince you otherwise.
From 1998 to today, elitefts has had one simple goal: to make average athletes great and great athletes elite. This is how the company has grown along the way to educate and outfit the strongest athletes around the world.
We can’t simply throw random exercises and set and rep schemes on a piece of paper haphazardly and then hope for the best. In this series I will teach you how to write programs, including a coach’s assignment for each article.
This second article of the series discusses additional loading concepts, training considerations, and rehabilitation protocols for increasing tissue capacity while maintaining or decreasing training load.
In this article are evidence-based recommendations for introducing youth athletes to the snatch, the clean and jerk, and their derivatives.
Designing a program that builds agility, speed, strength, and conditioning, while also training the strongman movements, can seem a daunting task. Here’s how I approach it.
I’m going to outline a 12-week program for an event that is max reps — a weight that is currently out of your reach.
Here are several very vital pieces of information that often go overlooked and undervalued when it comes to doing your best on the platform.
A big yoke equals instant respect. No one wants to screw with a guy that has a big neck and a thick yoke.
I’m going to share my strategy and reasoning behind it here, so hopefully, you can get some inspiration for whatever meet you’ve got coming up.
This method has shown effectiveness in hypertrophy training, so I’ve decided to try something new: what will happen if we take this method and alter it to cover two extremes of the training continuum?
In this video, Maliek and Dave discuss the problems with percentage-based training and share alternative methods for strength programming.
The healthier you can keep your spine, the longer you can train heavy and grow muscle. Here are my top-10, spine-friendly exercises.
I don’t know how many questions we’ve gotten about how to train certain weak points. Of course, almost every question is in regard to a weak muscle group or a certain portion of a lift.
In a perfect world, you’re always getting stronger and your PR’s are always moving higher. Well, this world isn’t perfect, and you need to remember that if you want to get stronger.
Through our many adventures, Chris Duffin and I trained, went four-wheeling, ate A LOT, and talked about many aspects of coaching and programming.
If you aren’t considering this factor, your training is suffering.
You took a step forward and now it’s summer. This time of year means nine weeks of strength and conditioning bliss and nine weeks of scheduling, programming and executing our own version of “the master plan.”
Was I able to do these things and reach the level that I did simply because I believed?
With a clinic and meet scheduled on back to back days, I was surrounded by influential members of the strength community and made a few discoveries.
Where is your confidence and what are you willing to do to strengthen it?
What must competitors put themselves through to attain championship notoriety? Being confined to a wheelchair? Torn relationships? Shortened lifespan?
A shorter range of motion means a bigger bench. Here’s how to get your chest closer to the bar without taking your ass off the bench.
The techniques of top bodybuilders may look fun. They may entice you. But first, you need to earn them.
You might think I’m talking about business. I’m not. I’m talking about something much more important.
I can only imagine from my personal experience with depression how athletes like Dave Mirra reach the point of tragedy.
These mistakes in the squat, bench, and deadlift seem small on their own. But add them to together? You’re leaving pounds off your total.
You will find no forward momentum by doing nothing. Without work, passion and purpose won’t take you anywhere.
This could be the simple rule to great strength — are you following it?
This problem started to creep up on us several years ago and I only see it getting worse.
The methods weren’t perfect, the food was mostly shit, but it worked. There are a few things I’d change before recommending this for someone else.
If I never did another meet, wrote another article, or coached at another seminar, I would still love lifting.
Your time in the gym is precious. If you don’t summon the iron will to shut off the outside world, get out.
The stretch reflex plays a vital role in your body’s ability to promote flexibility, increase strength, and develop power.
Life stress is unavoidable. It can overwhelm you and have a negative impact on your training…if you let it.
A proper weight room strategy provides adequate attention to the development of strength and size — two qualities necessary for your team’s improvement.
A logical process of elimination begins by considering all possible causes of your sticking point. I don’t have the answer but I can help you find it.
Instead of telling you about the event, I’ll do you a favor: here is an eight-hour video of every presentation.
Men and women have different needs. Pay attention to these eleven factors when programming for your female clients.
Are you conscious of where you’re placing your elbows during presses, rows, flyes, curls, and pullovers?
These eight rules of contest promotion are vital to your event’s success and your athletes’ satisfaction. Do it right and they’ll be back next time.
You need someone who isn’t afraid to criticize; you need to listen to what you’re doing wrong.
We have known for years that the Glute Ham Raise (GHR) was regarded as one the best movements for the posterior chain (lower back, glutes, hamstrings and calves).
These warm-up movements will build strength and power while keeping your body unilaterally symmetrical.
To develop and ingrain the habits of success overlook no fine details.
I have implemented these nutritional and sleep strategies in attempts to manipulate my body into restoring a healthy hormonal profile.
Use these cues and coaching methods to teach an inexperienced lifter how to squat safely and build a foundation for future strength.
The bench press is typically the weakest lift for women. It’s no mystery why—they require a targeted approach.