How to Build Your Deadlift Back Better: The Iron Step Method for Deadlift...
Why I Built This Cycle For the past few years, I mostly used the sumo deadlift. After decades of pulling conventional, sumo had become my main choice. Then a knee problem forced me to slow down...
View ArticlePlan Strong x Even Easier Strength
With a busy life, it’s hard to find training time—but remarkably easy to lose it. Training time is always at a premium. Like many of you, between work and personal commitments, I have a busy life and...
View ArticleThe Use of Auxiliary Lifts to Improve Your SFL Results
“Auxiliary exercises are not just for show—they’re for building the strength you can’t see.”—Louie Simmons The SFL StrongFirst Barbell Instructor Certification is a rigorous test of strength,...
View ArticleA Hybrid Step Cycle for Your Deadlift
The Problem You’ve always wanted to deadlift, but it takes too much out of you. It just doesn’t seem to “play nice” with the rest of your training. Or maybe you want to hit a bigger deadlift number for...
View ArticleSimplifying Multi-lift Programming
It is impossible to train every desired skill to a high level at the same time, especially if you have a day job. Few competitive powerlifters can snatch or clean and jerk. Weightlifters aren’t...
View ArticleAchieving a Three Times Bodyweight Deadlift with Both Stances
“We grow old and the young look at us and never see that once we made a kingdom ring for love.”—Uhtred of Bebbanburg Turning fifty is a milestone in most people’s lives. A time to reflect on five...
View ArticleStrength in Numbers: Can You Really Get Strong in a Group Fitness Class?
Years ago, after a Plan Strong™ seminar, I had a chance to ask Pavel a question. Me: “What do you think the biggest issue is in the fitness industry?” Pavel: “I don’t have enough time to answer that...
View ArticleStrength Programming in the 2022-2023 Season for an Italian Professional...
Most of us know the important role strength training plays in sports. This also applies to soccer, where the quality of technical skills is fundamental. During the 2022-2023 season, with the help of...
View ArticleSimple and Sinister—Help, I’m Stuck
“Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead.”—Bruce Lee Simple & Sinister embodies the quote above. Dedication to achieving Simple and continuing to Sinister has led students on...
View ArticleDeadlifts: Common Misconceptions and Practical Tips
I felt a pop and folded like a house of cards. Two years ago, I herniated a disc during my top deadlift set. I was training earlier than usual so my body was rather stiff. Despite a brief warm-up, I...
View ArticlePutting the Wind Beneath the Stones, Part II
Lifting the Dinnie Stones is a challenge for which strength enthusiasts from all over the world travel to Scotland. Donald Dinnie not only lifted but carried the “Steens” across the Potarch Bridge in...
View ArticleHow to Increase Power with “Grinds”
The good old days of bigger, faster, stronger are long gone. We know better now. Times have changed. The game of strength has new rules. It is not just about strength. It is about strength AND speed....
View ArticleHow to Deadlift a Barbell Every Day
“If something is important. Do it every day.”—Dan Gable. The most feared and revered barbell lift. The most neurologically taxing exercise. The “king of all lifts.” The list of ways to describe the...
View ArticleThe Paradox Breathing Crunch for Stronger Abs and Bigger Lifts
An Excerpt from Deadlift Dynamite The paradox breathing technique, developed in the USSR by opera singer Alexandra Strelnikova for applications obviously unrelated to lifting, will teach you how to...
View ArticleKettlebell Deadlift ➔ Barbell Deadlift
An Excerpt from Deadlift Dynamite If you know your way around the kettlebell, you have an unfair advantage when it comes to learning barbell skills. Start with a barbell half-deadlift because it is...
View ArticleKeeping A Resilient Back as We Age
Meeting Pavel for the first time about twenty years ago changed my life. It is a story that has been told in these pages before. I was impressed with this quiet gentleman who knew so much about...
View ArticleStop Fearing Heavy Weights
Results are What Matter For decades I have heard about thousands of training related products that claimed to work magic for athletes, oftentimes supported by “abstracts” of research and clinical...
View ArticleEnter the Barbell Deadlift
Why the Barbell? At some point every person who trains for strength should learn to use a barbell. When it comes to heavy lifting, the barbell reigns supreme. Two hands on a knurled bar with a balanced...
View ArticleHow to Win the TSC? With this Program
Co-authored by Ryan Toshner Participant registration is now open for this spring’s Tactical Strength Challenge on May 9. Register here. In our previous article, we laid out the most common snatch,...
View ArticleAvoid Common Deadlift, Pull-Up, and Snatch Mistakes to Own your TSC
Co-authored by Ryan Toshner The TSC is StrongFirst’s bi-annual strength challenge, where participants put their training pedal to the competition metal. Judged on performance while adhering to solid...
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