20 Tips to Improve Your Training
20 Tips to Improve Your Training

Twenty tips aka twenty ways to control and advance your training, especially if you’ve reached a sticking point. If all else fails, you have a long list of great online programming services to help your clientele reach their goals.

Sticking Point Breakdown for a Bigger Bench Press
Sticking Point Breakdown for a Bigger Bench Press

There’s no way to put up impressive numbers if you can’t get the bar off your chest or you’re stalling halfway. Let’s get back to some bench press basics.

WATCH: Training Frequency Considerations for Strength Sports
WATCH: Training Frequency Considerations for Strength Sports

Keep in mind the training frequencies listed here can still vary a lot depending on the person. These are just numbers to keep in mind as you figure out the best frequency for you!

Managing Training Schedules and Economies
Managing Training Schedules and Economies

My hope for any of you lifters, young or old, novice or elite, would be that you can take a more educated approach to your next training program, and managing your training schedule and economies is a great place to start.

How to Train While Working a Physical Job — Create Your Program
How to Train While Working a Physical Job — Create Your Program

Once you go through these seven steps, you should have a nice simple program that will allow you to reach your goals while staying true to your priorities and meshing with your daily work demands.

Begin Your Journey to Become a BAMF Wrestler
Begin Your Journey to Become a BAMF Wrestler

I am excited to share highlights of early discussions that Steve Konopka and I have had as we work to turn our shared vision into a reality, helping athletes along in their journeys to become BAMF wrestlers.

Make Recovery Great Again
Make Recovery Great Again

Your ability to recover is arguably one of the most misunderstood and undervalued aspects of strength and conditioning. As a goal oriented and driven lifter (possibly Type A too), avoid these common pitfalls.

My Simple and Effective Approach to Conjugate Training: Bending It to Your Needs
My Simple and Effective Approach to Conjugate Training: Bending It to Yo...

The ability to read yourself and what you need can take years to master, but you will never master it if you don’t start experimenting.

WATCH: Table Talk with Dan Green — Training Frequency of the Powerlifting Movements
WATCH: Table Talk with Dan Green — Training Frequency of the Powerliftin...

How many times per week should you train the main lifts?

5-4-3-2-1 Program for Size and Strength
5-4-3-2-1 Program for Size and Strength

This program aims to take advantage of periodizing training frequency by training one lift five times per week, one lift four times per week, one lift three times per week, one lift twice per week, and one lift once per week.

WATCH: Dugdale UGSS Presentation — Protecting Your Joints and Life Balance
WATCH: Dugdale UGSS Presentation — Protecting Your Joints and Life Balance

Longevity in this sport requires taking care of your body, but perhaps more importantly it requires taking care of your life.

Off-Season Back Training: Two Sessions Per Week and More Adjustments
Off-Season Back Training: Two Sessions Per Week and More Adjustments

I’m 22 weeks into my off-season and implementing some unique tweaks to my back training.

WATCH: Maliek Derstine Visits elitefts
WATCH: Maliek Derstine Visits elitefts

He holds the all-time world record for powerlifting total in the 181-pound weight class. He is better in that class than anyone else has ever been. When he talks about training, it’s probably best for you to listen.

Comeback Programming — Returning to the Gym After An Extended Break
Comeback Programming — Returning to the Gym After An Extended Break

You’ve been away from the gym, but now you’re back. With some intelligent programming you can resume training in such a way that you’ll be blowing through your old numbers without ever getting stuck.

Integrative Bodybuilding: Are You Training Enough to Build Muscle?
Integrative Bodybuilding: Are You Training Enough to Build Muscle?

Is improper training frequency cutting your muscle gains in half?

Block Periodization for Powerlifting: Revisited and Revised
Block Periodization for Powerlifting: Revisited and Revised

It’s been two years since his first article on block periodization was published. What has Gabriel Naspinski changed?

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