WATCH: Table Talk — The Widowmaker Squat Challenge

A high-rep squat set is a MFer challenge, there's no doubt about it.

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Four Traps to Avoid When Starting Conjugate Training

Using the Conjugate Method has been one of the most rewarding and fun things I've ever done, but it requires ownership and a tenacity to keep looking for answers. Here are four things to avoid as you begin your quest.

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Widow-Maker Squat Sets - elitefts.com

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Jim Wendler UGSS Presentation Part 2 - elitefts.com

from Dave Tate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4nHq4RT1NY

WATCH: Wendler's UGGS Presentation — Training Standards and Injury Management for Kids

In this video, the second part of his presentation, Jim goes into detail about both the mental and physical aspects of training kids.

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The Aging Rebels: An Exercise in Rehab and Friendship

Being stalked by the orthopedic reaper (not to mention the internal reaper) has been a challenge for Jack and I, but we have found ways to overcome every obstacle.

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The Short Science Behind Titanium Knick-Knacks

These are everything.

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Social Skill Integration Through Movement and Strength: Off-Site Team Training

As we relocate a group of connected individuals outside of the gym, the mindset attached to training evolves.

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Deadlift Training for the Strongman

For strongmen, the deadlift is many times just a a tool, not a factor itself. Your routine should reflect this.

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Deadlift Training for the Strongman

For strongmen, the deadlift is many times just a a tool, not a factor itself. Your routine should reflect this.

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Building the Bench, Piece by Piece

This article gives you the 12 best exercises to build mass in the necessary areas for a stronger bench press. Body-part by body-part, exercise by exercise, it's all here.

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Finding Strength: Strength Haven

This top-notch facility in Elkhart, Indiana has earned its reputation through their development of athletes and the social causes they support in their community.

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Fatigue vs Fatigue Compensation: Functional Abdominal Training

Instead of relying on outdated and sub-optimal methods, choose a more functional approach in combination with PRI to optimize ribcage position and abdominal strength.

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Powerlifting: 25% Training, 75% Pre-Hab, Rehab, and Injury Prevention

If you think you'll make it in this sport by pushing through your workouts even when you're injured or suffering, you're wrong.

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WATCH: Using the Box Squat to Correct Posterior Chain Weaknesses

If you or your clients are failing to properly load your glutes and hamstrings during a competition squat, this video will show you how.

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Box Squat Tutorial - elitefts.com

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How To Price Personal Training

Unsure where to set prices for 1:1 or small group training? Here's an in-depth look at the industry's current rates and how to best incentivize your trainers while bringing more clients—and money—to your gym.

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How to Run a Great Strongman Contest: 6 Steps to a Better Competition

Our show is one of the longest-running shows in America and is a highly-organized, efficient, and well-run event that athletes look forward to. But it wasn't always like that — we started poorly and disorganized. Here's how we fixed it.

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Who’s the Greatest?

It’s more than athletic prowess or shredded muscularity that flows with beautiful symmetry and balance.

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WATCH: Table Talk — The Current State of the Fitness Industry

What do you think of the fitness community today and all the shitty gurus on social media?

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Dave Tate's Thoughts on Fitness Gurus - elitefts.com

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Jim Wendler UGSS Presentation Part 1 - elitefts.com

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WATCH: Jim Wendler's UGSS Introduction — Earn the Barbell, Training Philosophy, and Industry Trends

This video is Jim's full 20-minute introduction to his UGSS presentation.

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Strongman Corporation’s Masters Nationals — America’s Strongest Master

This competition was a celebration of three crazy strongwomen who have competed in this sport for over twelve years.

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WATCH: Mickey Belaineh — Harvard Law Graduate and World Record Powerlifter

With bar exams complete and results pending, Mickey's focus on powerlifting continues to evolve.

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Harvard Law Graduate/World Record Powerlifter Mickey Belaineh - elitefts.com

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2016 RPS Memphis Classic Meet Report

This meet was about a few monster numbers that have been weighing down on me. All of the lessons from my elitefts teammates are starting to pay off.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Kevin Jabroni?

The 2016 Mr. Olympia ended up being more about Kevin Levrone than Phil Heath. Was it empty hype?

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The Complete 2016 Off-Season Rugby Training Manual

I'm sharing with you the actual manual that I gave my professional athletes prior to departing for their one-month break. This covers all the athletes' needs for staying in shape for the rigors of pre-season training.

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Are You and Your PT Compatible?

Beyond skill-set, a physical therapist's personal belief system, communication style, vision, and philosophy are just a few things you should consider when searching for the perfect match.

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Real People, Real Results — 8 Lessons in Training, Nutrition, and Business

I’ve spent the better part of these last two years working with hundreds of new clients and continuing to meet and learn from seasoned coaches.

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Personal Training VS Online Coaching - elitefts.com

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WATCH: Personal Training vs. Online Coaching

Not all clients are serious strength athletes and not every coach prefers to work in-person. In this video Christian explains several key differences and shares his opinion on working with general population.

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Behind the Eyes of An Athlete: The Inner Me, The Enemy

Behind every win is a backstory. What happens when your "inner me" becomes your enemy?

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You’re Not Hot, You’re Just Old

Feeling young and looking young are two entirely separate things.

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Reasons Why You're Weak — Inefficient Technique, Outcome-Focused, Micro-Managing, Online, and Over-Thinking

Without question, the number one reason most lifters don’t lift the weights that they are able to is...

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Close-Grip Bench, Dips, and Chins — When and Why I Don't Program

Let’s get into how you can adjust your form, what to pay attention to, and how you can get the greatest gains from these three exercises without beating up your body.

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WATCH: Table Talk — Can You Use Competition Lifts for Max Effort Work?

If you feel you need more work on the competition movements, can you use them as max effort work instead of doing specialty exercises?

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Can You Use Competition Lifts For Max Effort Work? - elitefts.com

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WATCH: The Story Behind the Logo — TRAIN

The TRAIN logo emphasizes what we stand for. It's what we do.

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Train or Remain The Same - elitefts.com

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5 Tips to Break an All-Time World Record

I am going to share with you some tips and tricks on how Larry Williams was put in a position where he could be the best in the world in his weight class and division.

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Christian Anto and NBS Lifters Memphis Classic Meet Prep - elitefts com

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Why Fitness Articles Suck — Confessions of a Content Mill Author

If you’ve been in the fitness industry for a couple of decades like I have, you may be wondering what the hell happened. Fitness articles weren’t this bad when we were starting out, were they?

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Guest Judging Boss of Bosses 3

Watching a lifter going for a lift he knows he has to make to move into first place... Watching a lifter going for a record that has stood for 15 or 20 years...

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A Twist On Seated Rows Using the American Multi Grip Attachment

If I asked what your top five back exercises would be, I can confidently say that one of them would more than likely be rows. Personally, seated rows are one of my favorite exercises because you can hit multiple different muscle groups in one single exercise including the latissimus dorsi, rhomboids, rear deltoids, biceps, trapezius, etc. This is wonderful, but sometimes seated rows feel so boring.

EliteFTS team member and IFBB Pro Bodybuilder Mark Dugdale provides a little variation to the standard seated row:

Dugdale is using the EliteFTS American Multi Grip Attachment. He starts with the outer-most grip and does 7 reps then moves in to the next grip and so on, completing 7 reps each time.

This is an intense grip variation in an extended set that not only allows for some variety to seated rows, but also allows you to hit the different muscle groups harder than ever before.  From the product page:

"Employing 4 different grip styles, the American Multi Grip Attachment is excellent for neutral rowing movements as well as close grip! Just as in our American Press Bar, you'll find that the outer-most handles are thinner than the inner-most handles.  This will provide differing muscle stimulus from your average row attachment."

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WATCH: Jim Wendler Speaks at Open Underground Strength Session

As elitefts team members, we’ve seen the impact that this community and time training together has had on our lives and lifting careers — we're bringing more people into that fold.

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Stress and Social Support — How Can You Help Your Athletes?

At the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of needs is food, shelter, and safety. If your athlete doesn't have one of these three things, how can you expect them to perform at their best?

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WATCH: Jim Wendler Speaks at Open Underground Strength Session

As elitefts team members, we’ve seen the impact that this community and time training together has had on our lives and lifting careers — we're bringing more people into that fold.

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Becoming You

Your time, your life, and the way it is meant to be lived.

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Jim Wendler Speaks at Open UGSS - elitefts.com

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Finding Strength: The Strength Depot

The owners of this Livonia, Michigan facility have made a commitment to bettering the world of strength sports, providing a home to many lifters and raising money for Relentless Detroit.

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Stress and Social Support — How Can You Help Your Athletes?

At the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of needs is food, shelter, and safety. If your athlete doesn't have one of these three things, how can you expect them to perform at their best?

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Squat Mechanics: Why Stacking the Knee Overtop of the Ankle Is Important

There are a lot of things we work on with fixing lifters' squats, let's start here.

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Mitigating ADHD in Athletics

To improve the lives of those with ADHD and those interacting with these individuals, we must better educate the teachers, coaches, and mentors.

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Dr. Squat: Fred Hatfield’s Journey Through the 1000-Pound Barrier

When Dr. Squat decided he wanted to squat over 1,000 pounds, he performed several statistical computations to figure out exactly how he would be able to get there.

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WATCH: Dave's Squat Tips for NBS Lifters

What began as a heavy squat session in the S4 Compound became an impromptu coaching session with Dave. Here are the five things he told these lifters to fix.

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Stop the Madness! #SMEP Single Minute Exercise Prep

You don't need 45 minutes of mobility work for a 30-minute work out. Here are some general guidelines and an approach to effectively employing preventative and corrective work.

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WATCH: Off Topic — Should You Periodize Your Conditioning?

In building your aerobic base, is it enough to simply add Prowler pushes, hill sprints, and sled drags to your program? Dave and Jim explain the purpose behind GPP.

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Should You Periodize Your Conditioning? - elitefts.com

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Dave Tate Gives Squat Tips - elitefts.com

from Dave Tate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DqbYO0PTmo

The American Idol Phenomenon in Powerlifting

Without that experience in their back pocket, they simply get eaten up and spit out by the industry.

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How to Get Stronger in a Crowded Gym (With 8-Week Program)

You don't need a unique piece of equipment for each muscle group or a 25-item list of accessory exercises. This program uses nothing but gym essentials to get you stronger without ever having to leave the squat rack.

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Beginners and the Accountability Weakness

Early in your powerlifting journey, this is the only weak point you need to concern yourself with.

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Programming 201: The Realistic Strength Program

You can have the holy grail of training programs, but if it doesn't fit your job, it isn't any good.

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Identifying Why — 4 Steps to Perfecting Your Program Philosophy

Here are a few steps I have used over the years that have helped me, my staff, and our athletes be on the same page in understanding our purpose.

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Contest Prep Aftermath: Reverse Diet and Training Gone Wrong

In this second part of the series I am going to discuss the top-three nutrition and training mistakes I see when competitors reverse out of a show, how they may affect long-term progress, and what to do if you make them.

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Novel Stimulus or Stupid Human Trick?

Cutting through the clutter of fitness information out there, here's a checklist to help you to figure out what works (and what doesn’t) for your training and the training advice you offer others.

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The Yearly Training Plan of the Strength Athlete — When the Barbell Is Taken for Granted

I was warned of not taking it for granted and it burned me at the one competition I had my sights on for months.

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Is There Really A Difference Between Raw and Geared Lifting?

No matter which of the many training programs out there you choose to use, or whether you train raw or equipped, one thing will always remain the same.

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Mobility Versus Flexibility

Is mobility even a real thing, or a substitution for people that don’t actually train, compete, or play in an actual defined activity?

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Why Bodybuilders Have a Love/Hate Relationship with Vacations

I get asked a lot about what to do about workouts, diet, etc., while on vacation. My response?

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Whoa, Hamstrings

Here are six different exercises to kill your underdeveloped hamstrings — high reps, low reps, extended time, heavy weights, and GPP cover everything you need to make them bigger and stronger.

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WATCH: Table Talk — Flaws of Percentage-Based Programming and Training

In this video, Maliek and Dave discuss the problems with percentage-based training and share alternative methods for strength programming.

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Why Do You Lift — The Game

Is winning all that matters or is participation the purpose of competition? This is the final article in this series.

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Percentage Based Programming - elitefts.com

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Setting an Atmosphere for Success

Changing the culture or environment of your team is not easy but it may be the single-most important factor for your success. Here are three things to get you started.

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Just Breathe

Every lifter should learn to "fill low" and generate pressure in the proper area of their lower abdomen.

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