My key indicators (as well as yours) take time to know and develop. They also will change over time, so always be on the lookout and always monitor your training.
My goal in training is simply to be able to train my ass off for as long as I can.
With most of the US population being obese, these questions come from everywhere and everyone.
With Jim Wendler, Mark McLaughlin, Bob Youngs, Alwyn Cosgrove, Tom Deebel, Jason Ferruggia, Julia Ladewski, Dave Tate, and Mike Hope.
If you’re a football coach or a strength coach for football, check this out. It may give you some ideas.
I want to take this time to congratulate them on making it to the site!
Training Tip: regardless of your program or coach you need to trust your gut. You’re the only one who has been to every workout.
Last week an idea was suggested to take this to another level and bring in some of our team members to work with selected readers.
As of week five, weak points have been determined and modifications to the program have been made.
Mmm….applesauce, pickles and eggs.
By this point in the process, I wasn’t anywhere near an expert, but things were starting to click.
The good news was that my shoulder felt fine with the much-needed grip change.
We asked Dave for his “best bench video ever” and this is what he ended up with.
When I travel and have no idea what type of gym I will have access to.
The JM Press is a hybrid of two different exercises.
Well you should wonder, but in case you haven’t, I have. And this is what I came up with.
This is a modified version of a turtle shake Dr. John Berardi gave me to try years ago.
You want to leave them there so you can see your victory each time you enter the kitchen.
I was messing around the other day and came up with this killer triceps exercise.
Shower, breakfast – what I call meal #1 – and time to catch up on my reading.
Help these children follow their passion for a day and know that you have contributed to something they truly will remember.
Although they aren’t brand new, there’s a reason Blast Straps have continued to challenge athletes into 2010.
With strength training or training for powerlifting, you are in the process of trying to combine many training methods to develop many different abilities.
Maybe you just don’t know how to f&*%ing bench! Then we suggest you read these tips.
Dave stormed into the office, slammed down his energy drink and crashed onto his chair, still scrolling through his e-mails on his iPhone.
One very important thing to remember about training and competitive advice is that what others overlook is usually the answer. In other words, the answer is usually very simple but normally only comes from an advanced lifter.
Please note that different classifications may be used depending on the athletes’ weak and strong points, level of development, training period, emphasis, and additional items. Those classifications are used to help the coach organize the training system and prioritize things according to the demands of sport and position.
It seems like yesterday when I first set up the Q&A section on EliteFTS.com. I still remember answering the first question back in the winter of 1998. It was about the dynamic bench press, and I knew this would turn out to be a great thing. What I didn’t know at the time was how great it would become.
I guess I can begin by saying how wrong I was and how I took our Q&A staff for granted. I know EliteFTS has the best training team on the planet. Yes, this is a very cocky statement, but do me one favor here.
I have been going to Force Training Seminars, either to help Dave or to do them on my own, for almost 3 years and one of the hardest things to do is get someone to squat correctly.
I get bombarded with emails on a daily bases ranging from business issues, training questions, product opportunities, spam and a number of other issues. While I personally answer most of my emails there are times when I forward them onto people I feel can do a better job answering the questions than I could.
I’m going to do is make a list articles and other assorted products that will make things very, very easy for someone navigating this site and trying to learn.
Coming up with new articles each month can be a challenging task and coming up with quality information can be even harder. After a couple hundred articles I find myself repeating myself time and time again.
This plan is not only mobility work but also includes some very basic pre-habitation work for many of the most common strength training injuries (pec tears, sore elbows, knees, lower back and shoulders).
Stealth like I maneuver to get into position. I always feel somewhat anxious and nervous because I know security cameras abound but I am agile and cunning like a human Rikki Tikki Tavi.
Jim Wendler has written a great series on tips for beginners. I was talking to Dave Tate about it and he gave me the idea for this article. I want to share what my workouts looked like when I first got to Westside Barbell.
When I first started training using the Westside methods, I would often end my max effort exercise and feel like I didn’t do anything.