Get Big without Getting Slow: Cluster Training

By gaining muscle, you increase your ceiling for strength. By getting stronger, you increase your ceiling for power.

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Finding Strength: Why Your Log Press Sucks with Zydrunas Savickas

If I had to pick the three most common mistakes I've witnessed in the last 10 years of seeing lifters miss with the log, here they are, with a video of Zydrunas Savickas coaching the movement.

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Sports Performance Summit 2017 Teaser - elitefts.com

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From Deadlift Cues to Overcoming the Blues — One Year with elitefts

I couldn't believe it when I saw that it has been a year since I joined elitefts. In honor of the anniversary, here are five lessons from my first year.

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225 Bench Press Repetitions Test — What Are We Really Testing?

The strength of the athlete determines what kind of preparation will produce the desired training effect: more reps. We need to stop and ask three questions.

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The Training Arriving Model

Understanding where your clients are on the T.A.M spectrum, and where they want to be, is crucial for delivering the best coaching-client experience possible.

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Why Deads Are Overrated

If you want full back development, you're going to have to stop focusing on the deadlift.

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How to Balance Work and Training - elitefts.com

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The Gift of Perspective: Things to Know as a New Powerlifter

In this first part of the perspective series, I share five perspectives for you to consider as you make your initial steps into the journey that we call powerlifting.

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Rehab Report: Repairing My Hand and Planning My Return to the Platform

This article was meant to have been about the results of my meet in December and the setting of PRs and possible world records. All of those aspirations ended on October 7, 2016.

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5 Cues That Can Screw Up Your Lifting

Believe it or not, there is such a thing as “too much of a good thing", and over-applying a cue when it’s not needed can really jack up a lifter’s technique.

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Social Skill Integration Through Movement and Strength: Play Date with a Friend

Make this your chance to verify how training (all our hard work) gives us lots of opportunities to enjoy life.

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Do You Have to Train Heavy to Maintain Muscle Before a Show? - elitefts.com

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2017 Hawaii Strength Clinic — Spread the Aloha

We had a blast in Oahu, Hawaii, although I think my son may have had even more fun than my wife and I did! With all that said, I was there for a business trip and I had to get to work.

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Three-Dimensional Force Curl Complex

Want grip strength like a bear and biceps like baseballs?

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John Carroll University ROTC Seminar — Powerlifting as Military Training

After 20 years of service, I have come to realize that a powerlifting style of training is best for members of the military.

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34 Ways to Maximize Your Raw Bench

Here are some of the tried-and-tested methods that helped me finally break through the 400-pound barrier, which had been a monkey on my back for years.

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Arnold Classic Weekend — Win A Chance to Train at elitefts

No purchase necessary. Raffle begins TONIGHT!

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What Is Your One Thing?

As we transition to shifting macronutrients and increasing volume in our training, it is easy to fall in the trap of analysis paralysis. With thin slicing, you won't have to worry about this.

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Apply the 80/20 Principle to Powerlifting

Use this principle to analyze your training program, your technique, your diet, your recovery, and your time.

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Finding Your Niche in S&C as a Female Coach

Professionals who succeed in the field career athletics are few and far between. Look to the ranks of women and the numbers drop even further.

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Prework: The Best Thing Your Training Program Likely Needs

It really seems like most people don’t care about corrective exercises and prehab until chronic injury and age rear their ugly heads. Enter: my current life situation and the solution.

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WATCH: Table Talk with Mark Dugdale — Should I Hire A Bodybuilding Coach?

It may be tempting to put your entire trust in someone with experience, but there are a few things to consider first.

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Bare Bones Conjugate: A Bar, Rack, and Bench Weeks 1-4

When thinking about conjugate training, we often look at all the specialty bars, bands, chains and other goodies that we use in training. But when you boil it down, conjugate training doesn't need those things.

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Pros and Cons of Having a Bodybuilding Coach - elitefts.com

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Mark Dugdale Open UGSS Presentation | Part 5 - elitefts.com

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WATCH: Dugdale UGSS Presentation — Who Will Remember You?

Your time on this earth is limited, and much shorter than you likely realize. Don't waste it.

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The Pursuit of Elite

Surrounding myself around top-level powerlifters for over 30 years, I've noticed a trend.

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What's the Purpose of Your Training?

It is almost as if lifters don't think training starts until the weight gets heavy. I've got news for these kinds of lifters: a training session starts right after the last one is finished.

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WATCH: What It Means to Have Someone's Back

Caring about someone doesn't always mean agreeing with them — sometimes it means telling them they're making a stupid-ass decision.

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Beta-Alanine Supplementation: A Woman’s Perspective

Don’t make purchases based on pretty pink labels and bizarre claims.

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Coach Strong Not Scared

It is a noble profession — one that helps prepare young people for life, building not just their bodies but also their minds. Don't lose sight of this when you end up in any of the following situations.

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Back to the Basics, Back to Functional Training

Let me introduce you to the Core 4: push, pull, press, and carry.

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The Truth About Valentine’s Day

You're welcome for the reminder.

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The Phases of Life

It sounds cliché, but the older you get, the faster time seems to slip away. We really never seem to take the time to appreciate our journey until we realize it’s more than half over already and it feels like we’re just getting started.

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Matt Sohmer — Squat and Deadlift World-Record Strategies

Bottom line: all that matters is results. You are either creating or you are disintegrating. If this requires breaking from orthodoxy, so be it. Here are five ways we did this with Matt.

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Body Mechanics 101: Elbow Position for Triceps Extension

I see terrible training mistakes on an almost daily basis, and not just the ones veteran meatheads like to post on social media to poke fun at someone in the gym who doesn’t know any better.

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A Strength Coach's Dream: Reflexive Performance Reset

Simply put, RPR resets your compensation patterns and allows your body to do its two most essential functions properly: to BREATHE and MOVE.

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What Separates a Novice Lifter From an Advanced Lifter - elitefts.com

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Mark Dugdale Open UGSS Presentation | Part 4 - elitefts.com

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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.

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How You Can Help Grow The Sport of Powerlifting

If the social theory holds true, then in order for powerlifting itself to make progress, individuals within the group will have to give up a little something of themselves to push the sport further.

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The Finer Points of Getting Shredded

As with any training-related goal, there’s a great way to go about things, and a not-so-great way to go about things. Let’s get into four of the finer points of shedding your unwanted fluff.

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Seven Tips to Get Your Ass Back in the Gym

This article is for the grizzled veterans who are now getting up in years. If you've fallen off the exercise wagon here are seven easy tips to get your training back on course.

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24-Hour Shift Programming for Those Who Protect and Serve

This training design has taken into account 24-hour shifts over a four-week schedule. As you can see, each week has varying work demands, so the training program must reflect this.

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Westside for Raw — Is Westside the Best Side?

You might be wondering what a program would look like that encompasses all of these principles. I put together a sample 16-week raw program for you all to try.

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10 Big Lessons 2016 Taught Me

Your numbers will be subject to so many external variables, but your character is forged by intentionality.

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WATCH: My Biggest Mistake in Strongman

Being in this sport for long means making mistakes, but for Clint, there's one that he considers worse than all others.

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RPR: Wake Up Your True Performance Potential

The purpose of this tool is to identify problems and compensations in an individual’s movement patterns and to restore neurological balance to allow the body to perform the way it naturally should.

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Vince Gironda — The World's First Personal Trainer

I've studied and experimented with Vince Gironda's methods my entire training career. He has had a major impact on me as a trainer and lifter.

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elitefts Customer Product Reviews — The Seated Calf/Tibia Raise Machine with TJ Slomka

We know you don't want empty praise of our equipment — you want honest, detailed feedback so that you can know what to expect.

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How To Set Your Rates

Setting rates shouldn't be a mystical process, but a mathematical one.

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WATCH: Table Talk with Mark Dugdale — Training Evolution and the Genetic Ceiling

Do genetic ceilings exist? How can you know if you've reached yours? Is it possible to break through?

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Train to Think or Think to Train

If you don’t understand the reason behind doing something, how will you know if you are getting the proper results out of your efforts?

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Training Evolution & the Genetic Ceiling - elitefts.com

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WATCH: Dugdale UGSS Presentation — Guarding Your Central Nervous System

The first part of training for longevity is ensuring that your body's central nervous system can adequately handle the demands of your program.

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Mark Dugdale Open UGSS Presentation | Part 3 - elitefts.com

from Dave Tate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7k8Yjy5MAE

A Little Knowledge is Dangerous

Wait, what?

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Life Imitates Powerlifting

The lessons I have learned from powerlifting help me with situations I come across in my life. I recently experienced this while on my first mule deer archery hunt.

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25 Tips for a Bigger Raw Deadlift

A brutally strong deadlift will never come easily, but that doesn't mean you need to get fancy.

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S&C Meeting of The Minds — Training A New Generation, Bandwagon Trends, and Research

Coaches Kitchen, Clapp, Nosak, and Showers are back to answer more questions about succeeding in the strength and conditioning field.

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A Smarter Approach to Enhancing Athletic Performance

When I started to apply this 8-phase setup with my high school and college athletes, not only did their technique, mobility, and flexibility improve, but they also looked and felt stronger.

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