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Spectacular Eye Candy
18 May 2012 10:41 AM | 5 Comments -
EFS Classic: Lee Gerney’s Home Gym
18 May 2012 6:30 AM | No Comments -
How a Home Gym Can Save You MONEY?
17 May 2012 4:21 PM | 9 Comments -
A “No Bull Shit” Q&A with David Allen
03 February 2012 10:44 AM | 7 Comments -
Get to the Edge: Q&A with Mike Spagnola
26 January 2012 10:16 AM | 10 Comments
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Programs Archive
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Ramblings on 4 Key Variables for an Effective Strength Program
Train smart and train hard.By Josh Bryant
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Pull, Press, Squat
There is only one recipe for strength.By Steve Pulcinella
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Get Wide!
Wider is better.By Steve Pulcinella
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S4 Training – Five Week Peak Phase
They are all now in a transition phase until after the first of the year.By Dave Tate
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How Often Should You Deload?
This process will change based upon what sport you are involved in because of different types of skill based training.By Dave Tate
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Origin of the Juggernaut Method
I will discuss the idea behind each week a bit later.By Chad Wesley Smith
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Weekender’s Small-Time PR with Big-Time Learnings
The week leading up to the meet was great. Lots of rest and ice.By Steve Diel
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Programming
Although everyone is a unique snowflake and will adapt slightly differently, there are good ways to train and there are bad ways to train.By Chad Pierce
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What Logs Would You Like to See?
What type of logs would you like to see on our web site?By EFS Staff
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Win A FREE Econo Prowler: Vaccination Not Included
This contest is open to everyone.By Rachel Cassano
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52 Most Common 5/3/1 Questions
As for the conditioning work, do it whenever you can find the time!By Jim Wendler
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My First 500 Pound Squat Cycle
This is the exact training cycle I used years ago to squat my first 500 pounds.By Dave Tate
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EFS Classic: Top 12 Tricep Movements
Here is a list of our top 12 tricep movements for size and strength.By Dave Tate
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Schwab Explains his Training Methods
Why I stopped performing dynamic effort work in my training.By Brian Schwab
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Practical Applied Stress Training (P.A.S.T) For Tactical Athletes
In recent years, there has been a paradigm shift in how the tactical community – for example SWAT teams, special operations military and others - approaches it’s PT training designed to better prepare them for the job.By Will Brink
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Extreme Squat Training and Squat Cycle
Here at Team Extreme, we’ve broken three world records and many personal records in the past year. Our guys all follow similar workouts.By Matt Wenning
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Weight Loss and Strength: A 10-Week Experiment with Shelby Starnes and 5/3/1
As Jim Wendler would say, get “north of vag” and stay there. Seriously, anybody can do this.By Will Irby
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Make-A-Wish with Training Insanity
EliteFTS athletes know that with the right mindset, even the toughest challenges can eventually be overcome. This takes both dedication and an iron will. Only you can make yourself give up. It’s about resisting the urge to surrender, showing how strong you are, sticking together with your team, and getting everything you can out of life.By EFS Staff
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The Fifties
For several months, I’ve been doing Jim Wendler’s 5/3/1 program. In it, Jim talks about doing exercises for assistance that build muscle mass. He advocates doing several reps of dips and pull-ups every week. At one point, I believe he states we should do 50 dips a week weighted or 100 dips a week with just body weight. If memory serves, he advocates doing something similar with chin-ups or pull-ups.By Lonnie Watson
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Though This Be Madness, Yet There Is Method in It
This year marks the twentieth anniversary of my odyssey as a classroom teacher. Upon completion of my first year, the building principal summoned me to his office, and we reflected on what I needed to do to improve and become more effective as an instructor.By Glenn "Apollo" Buechlein
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EFS Pro Short Band Strength
Bands were first introduced to Dave Tate close to 10 years ago. After experimenting with accommodating resistance and the use of chains, Dave took his squat from 760 to 855 in 12 months.By Rachel Cassano
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1100 Pound Abs
The other day in the gym, the topic of ab training for strength came up. I figured there was nobody better to ask than 1100 pound squatter Matt Wenning.By Dave Tate
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Teach Them to Land First
Plyometrics have been a part of most athletic development programs for many years. It’s become quite commonplace for coaches to implement these sort of hops, jumps, and triple jump variations during the speed and acceleration development periods of their programs. These sorts of drills have been proven time and again to improve both starting strength [...]By Jason Nunn
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Under The Bar: The S-4 Weekender Program Part 2
This article is the continuation of the Weekender Series that has documented the training of a few of our featured training log lifters, as well as the weekend group training in our weight room:By Dave Tate
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Army Physical Training and the Powerlifter
In October 2008, I joined the U.S. Army. I’m going to share my story about seven months of Army physical training compared to my experience as a veteran powerlifter. Here are my observations. Observation #1: Being a middleweight and lover of absolute strength I entered the Army as a heavy middleweight powerlifter from the Michigan [...]By Jacob Gunter
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Want to Squat Like a Man? Lift Like a Woman
Every day you can go into a weight room anywhere in the country and two things will be certain—men will be working their chest and arms and women will be working their legs, specifically their glutes and hips. Granted, the vast majority of these lifts are done for cosmetic reasons, but every once in a great while, a pencil-legged man with 22-inch arms will decide to hop under the squat bar—the Smith machine no doubt—to, you know, mix up his routine.By Charlie Cates
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Failure Fixation
Did Arthur Jones have it right when he essentially devoted his life to convincing people they needed to train to failure? Or was the Nautilus inventor and High Intensity Training (HIT) pioneer just an angry, dissenting crank whose primary goal in life was to upset the order and sell more products? Time will tell, and maybe it already has. Either way, there are myriad considerations to take into account when examining the practice of training to failure – points that, once you’ve given them some thought, might just make you reconsider your position and change the way you train.By Frank Francisco
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My Experience at the 2004 WPO Bench Bash for Cash by Ed Rectenwald as told to Dave Tate
Let me first tell you briefly about myself for those who do not know me. I am 33 years old and live with my wife, Laura, of 8 years in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. I work as a research Hydrogeologist for the state and specialize in subsurface geophysics and aquifer hydraulic testing. I started competing [...]By Dave Tate
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Under The Bar: The S-4 Weekender Program
I'm still not quit sure how it happened, but over the course of the past twelve months, we have attracted a group of competitive powerlifters into our gym. It was not that long ago that I retired from the sport and spent my weekends training with one or two other guys, and that was it.By Dave Tate
