Leverages will influence your ideal deadlift stance, but that’s only one small part of finding your weakness is.

I hear lifters say this shit all the time. It’s ludicrous.

This mistake is really, really simple, even if no one wants to take ownership of it.

There’s going to be a time when you can’t do this anymore. Don’t piss on this opportunity. When it’s gone, it’s gone.

Stop beating yourself up after hitting a sticking point in your training. Figure out what the problem is and fix it. These tips will help the troubleshooting process.

There are three questions you should be asking yourself before investing in equipment.

People always want to talk about when geared powerlifting ruled the sport. Now they think raw is in charge. What’s the answer?

How you choose to prime your body for a training session is up to you, but not all warm up and recovery methods are equal.

Equipped powerlifting isn’t easy to do by yourself in a home gym. But if you’re going to do it, you need to know how to do it safely.

The seminar era produced stories about cabs and airports and churches and bomb shelters. This is one of my favorites.

Dropping bodyweight doesn’t have to mean dropping pounds off your total. If you have reasonable expectations, there are ways to maintain your strength while cutting weight.

If you ever want to reach an elite level in this sport, you have to get the rookie mistakes out of the way. These are the most common problems I see in intermediate lifters.

There are a lot of strong lifters in the world. That’s not all we’re looking for.

There’s a way to know if your genetics suck — but not until you’ve given 100%. If you don’t spend enough time trying, you’ll never know.

A lot of people disagree about how often you should deadlift in the gym, if at all. For 13 years of competing, this is how I trained my deadlift.

You can love training more than anything else in your life but that doesn’t mean it’s always going to be fun. What will you do when training becomes the most difficult part of your day?

The annoying lifter in your gym might seem like he’s making no progress, but screwing around is exactly what he needs.

Would powerlifting be more popular if it were in the Olympics? What if ESPN aired National Championships?

I can understand how you can squat, bench, and deadlift as a fatass. The real question is, how do you survive?

You should be doing core exercises as part of your warm-up and as part of your accessory work on certain training days. Are you doing the right ones?

Coming off a debilitating injury, respect your body’s range of motion and only push the limits when the time is right. You’re on your way back, don’t blow it now.

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It’s not going to be easy to accomplish your goals. When your will to achieve starts to fade, what will you do?

Injuries suck, but we all get them. It’s part of the game. But there’s one injury that kept me out of the gym for months at a time. The doctor told me I’d never bench over 400 pounds again. He was wrong.

Dave Tate answers a question on where he thinks the fitness industry is headed.