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The “Best” Hip Hinge Exercise
By Pavel Tsatsouline, Chairman Two weeks ago Steve Belanger started a thread on the StrongFirst forum asking the readers to pick their favorite barbell, bodyweight, and kettlebell exercises. For all...
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Be a Man Among Men
By Pavel Tsatsouline, Chairman Why do so many men give up on being men once they have reached a certain age? (I could ask women the same question.) Not my father. A month ago seventy-five year old...
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Kettlebells and Deadlifts Go Together Like Vodka and Pickles
By Pavel Tsatsouline, Chairman Speaks 1,000-pound deadlifter Andy Bolton: “The [Kettlebell] Swing is a great developer of the posterior chain and will teach you how to develop some awesome SNAP in your...
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Announcing the Strong First Deadlift Team
By Jason Marshall, SFG Team Leader, StrongFirst Deadlift Team Captain Eumastas the son of Critobulus lifted me from the ground. —Inscription found on a 480kg (1058lb) black volcanic stone in Santorin...
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The Short Stop Squat: A Drill for Setting up Big Pulls
By Stuart McGill, PhD. I am often asked for my opinion about the best way to squat, or pull a loaded bar. My answer always is, “It depends on the person.” We all have a different injury history...
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Change Beckoned; Strength Answered.
By Laura Nepodal, SFG I think I knew I wanted to be strong when I threw a boy for distance for the first time. It was June of 1997, in a little basement of a little farmhouse in a little farming town,...
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Kettlebells + Deadlifts, Part II
By Pavel Tsatsouline, Chairman Several months ago I wrote how a girevik should go about converting the posterior chain strength he or she has built with swings and snatches into a respectable barbell...
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TSC a Decade Later
By Pavel Tsatsouline, Chairman, StrongFirst It was 2002, the RKC kettlebell cert barely a year old. I was training many military and law enforcement operators and was looking for ways to help them...
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The Tension Day
By Pavel Tsatsouline, Chairman, StrongFirst Have you done the Total Tension Complex we posted six weeks ago? Please post your results if you did. There are two types of training a strength seeker...
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strongfirst team pulls strong again
By Jason Marshall, Senior SFG and Pavel Tsatsouline, Chairman Ladies and gentlemen, this is Jason Marshall. We had two lifters for the East Coast meet in Philly, Ellen Stein and Lisa Burke. Both...
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heads up!
By Pavel Tsatsouline, Chairman A few years ago, a strange idea emerged from the clinical world: the insect head. White coats started telling lifters to lock their heads onto their torsos during...
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Kettlebells and Powerlifting: A Match Made in Heaven?
By ‘The King of The Deadlift’ Andy Bolton Kettlebells are a waste of time! Or so I thought, until I became friends with Pavel. Like many Powerlifters, I dismissed kettlebells outright, because…...
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Okinawan strength: Developing the “Iron Body”
By Stuart McGill, PhD Strength is context specific – to remain immovable, to be resilient to blows and forces, and to lift and handle large loads with low risk of injury require a specific type of...
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Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory?
By Brett Jones, Chief SFG Instructor It is approaching. The event you have been preparing for is drawing near. Does it approach with the sound of the Jaws theme (da) or the Rocky theme? I’ll let you...
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The Top Five Ab Training Mistakes
By Pavel Tsatsouline, Chairman The full contact twist.Photo courtesy Prof. Stuart McGill’s Spine Biomechanics Lab at the University of Waterloo, Canada By now, proper abdominal training should not be a...
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10 Essential Tips to Prepare for Your First Powerlifting Meet
By Danny Sawaya, SFG Team Leader, SFB, SFL Over the past couple of years my focus in strength has shifted from kettlebell training to the sport of powerlifting. Why? 1. I wanted a competitive outlet in...
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The Secret to Big Deadlifts: Do the Small Things
By Derek Miller, SFG II So, I want to deadlift. I want a strong deadlift. I want a really strong deadlift. Oh, you too? I don’t need to inform you of the benefits of adding barbell work into your...
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Daily Dose Deadlift Plan
By Derek Miller, SFG II If you know me well, you know that I LOVE strength training. If you’ve ever even had dinner with me, you know I LOVE strength training. But I am not a fan of inefficiency in...
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How to Systematically Improve Your TSC Numbers
By Tim Almond, SFG Team Leader The Tactical Strength Challenge (TSC) is a huge part of StrongFirst’s future. In Australia, we take it very seriously. It’s bridging gaps between communities that don’t...
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Fall 2015 TSC Recap
RECAP Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fall 2015 TSC saw more participants than ever. Incredible results, and INSPIRING efforts! So many PRs — among them, a few ladies who achieved their first-ever pull-ups...
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