The guy who founded Squat University knows a lot about squatting. Dr. Aaron Horschig is a sports and orthopedic physical therapist, certified strength and conditioning specialist, USAW Olympic ... Continue Reading
Chin-ups Vs Pull-ups: Why the Difference Is Important
If you asked any elite strength athlete or coach, what their favorite upper body exercises are for strength, power, and size, then there's a good chance the chin-up and pull-up would fall within their ... Continue Reading
Strength Through Instability: Boost Control and Stability with These 3 Moves
When it comes to training, you have to walk a fine line. Delicately balancing the big and exciting, with the boring yet necessary. Go too far either way and watch your numbers and health drop. Take the ... Continue Reading
Warm Up Your Wrists, Arms, and Shoulders With This Push-Up Routine
Wrists are an often overlooked part of warming up — and ironically, they are one of the most susceptible areas to damage in most strength sports and functional fitness. This gets amplified tremendously ... Continue Reading
Long Day of Sitting? Try These 8 Stretches to Unlock Your Hips
We’re not going to bore you with all the stats and scary science about how sitting is the new smoking and sitting is killing you why are you sitting right now buy a treadmill desk already. But every ... Continue Reading
Why You Should Do More Bulgarian Split Squats
Single-leg work often falls by the wayside as schedules get tight, time gets short, and lifters want to chase, well, the lifts. Who’s got time for single leg accessory work when there are PRs to ... Continue Reading
The Single-Arm Snatch: Should You Do Them?
The single-arm snatch is more than just a cool looking exercise. Long ago, our strong and stoic forefathers were performing this lift regularly to develop raw power and strength. I must admit, at first ... Continue Reading
6 Easy Ways To Start Programming Progressive Overload
One of the most fundamental concepts in all forms of strength training is the concept of progressive overload. Think back to the first time you picked up a weight. My guess is you naturally added more ... Continue Reading
Pulling Variations to Increase Leg Drive in the Snatch and Clean
Leg strength is critical in weightlifting movements. During the first pull of both the snatch and clean, knee extension takes place to bring the bar path up and into the lifter. In the event a lifter ... Continue Reading
Isometrics Are Your Secret Weapon for Heavier Lifts
A lot of lifters forget that there are three basic types of muscular contractions: concentric, which is contraction while the muscle shortens, eccentric, contraction while lengthening, and the all ... Continue Reading
Woodchopping Is the Best Strength Workout You’ve Never Tried
Swinging a bladed weapon in a fatigued state isn’t what most people would call a healthful activity, but those people don’t know the truth about woodchopping. It’s an astoundingly effective combination of ... Continue Reading
5 Strength and Positioning Exercises to Improve the First Pull
Snatches and cleans are complex movements, ones that require coaches and athletes to have a thorough understanding of the individual components of each movement; and how one tiny fault can lead to missed ... Continue Reading
Are You Strong? Building Strength Standards Across Five Key Movements
When you see it you certainly know it, yet defining just what counts as strong is surprisingly tricky. When I first started lifting, I was pretty sure I knew what it meant to be strong. To me it was being ... Continue Reading
Harbinger Cotton Padded Lifting Strap Review
Harbinger was founded in 1988 by an inventor named David McCrane, who at the time teamed up with 8-time Mr. Olympia, Lee Haney. Initially, these two worked together to create lifting wrist assists and ... Continue Reading
Anderson Squat – How It Benefits Your Training
Squatting strength and performance is arguably one of the most vital attributes for strength, power, and functional fitness athletes. Often, athletes may find themselves and their squat performance ... Continue Reading
2 Exercises That’ll Get You a One-Armed Chin-Up
There are elite circles of the strength world where even the ability to squat triple your bodyweight won't get you through the door. We’re talking about the peaks ... Continue Reading
6 Lateral Stability Exercises for the Functional Athlete
Strength athletes usually lift things up and put them down. And it's awesome. But there's sometimes an issue among powerlifters, Olympic lifters, and functional fitness athletes when ... Continue Reading
10 Time-Saving Tips for Weightlifting Workouts
Weightlifting is a very time-dependent sport. Elite weightlifters train hours per day, for years. Even novice lifters looking to increase basic understanding, strength, and power may very well find ... Continue Reading
The 6 Craziest Muscle-Ups We’ve Ever Seen
California-based powerlifter and rings training guru Anna Culbertson has taken the muscle-up to a place we never thought we'd see. She demonstrated some seriously superhuman muscle control in ... Continue Reading
Front Squat vs. Zercher Squat: Which Is Best for You?
Squatting is a fundamental movement in many sports. Power, strength, and functional fitness athletes need to also develop diversity in their squatting mechanics to perform better. Two variations of ... Continue Reading
Kettlebell History Goes Back Much Further Than Russia
The problem with kettlebell history is that surprisingly few people care. “Let’s say you’re a baseball fan. You play recreationally, you know who Babe Ruth is, you know the different stadiums. But in ... Continue Reading
Kirill Sarychev Lifts World Record Raw Powerlifting Total At 2,386.5 lbs
In Kirill Sarychev’s powerlifting career there isn’t too much he hasn’t done. He’s set multiple records, started his own powerlifting federation (WRPF), and has become a major influencer in the ... Continue Reading
The Zercher Squat: How, When, and Why It Should Be In You Training
The Zercher Squat is a movement-based exercise that nearly every athlete, regardless of sport goal, can benefit from. This unique squat variation can increase upper mock strength and posture, core ... Continue Reading
5 Life-Skills for Effective Strength Coaching
“Success” is a very subjective term. One person’s definition of success may be from a financial standpoint, while another may seek merit based upon accolades, accreditations, or simply the amount of lives ... Continue Reading