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Spectacular Eye Candy
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EFS Classic: Lee Gerney’s Home Gym
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How a Home Gym Can Save You MONEY?
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A “No Bull Shit” Q&A with David Allen
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Get to the Edge: Q&A with Mike Spagnola
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EFS Classic: Top Five Lifts for Football
If you’re a football coach or a strength coach for football, check this out. It may give you some ideas.By Dave Tate
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Play Your Cards Right
There isn't any two ways about it—cardio sucksBy Mike Samuels
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Elitefts: Iron Subculture Podcast #3
Josh Bryant discussed strategies for getting strong and big Metroflex-style. Kori Propst discusses the psychology of dieting. Plus much, much more...By Steve Colescott
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Everyone Needs One of These…
I’m sure that if I stay on my PC for a while longer, I could come up with more reasons, but here's what immediately comes to mind...By C.J. Murphy
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6 Things I’ve Learned So Far This Season
We're just over halfway through the season with twenty-two games played and, if successful in the playoffs, the prospect of sixteen more without any time off for good behavior.By Jamie Bain
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The Strength & Conditioning Internship: A Simple Guide for Strength & Conditioning Coaches, Part 4
Young coaches spend a great deal of time on program design, sets, reps, percentages, and every new drill or exercise that appears on the internet.By Mark Watts
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Antagonistically Facilitated Shock Training
Antagonistically facilitated shock (AFS) training describes a novel manner in which to perform shock training or, as it’s more commonly known, plyometrics.By Cal Dietz
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Better Basketball: Ten Minutes to Better Handles, Hoops, and Hercules Type Strength
Having been a basketball player myself, I’m aware of the many challenges a basketball player faces both on and off the court.By Shelby Turcotte
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Explosive Hip Development for MMA
If you're a fighter and want to dominate your competition, what do you need?By Eirik Sandvik
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The Strength & Conditioning Internship: A Simple Guide for Strength & Conditioning Coaches, Part 2
I was introduced to the writings of Patrick Lencioni via an audio interview with Joe Kenn on EliteFTS.com.By Mark Watts
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By the Coach For the Coach: Using the Dynamic Effort Method Dynamically
As with anything in this profession, we're only limited by our imagination, so please feel free to show me how you add DE work into your programsBy Todd Hamer
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The Angry Coach: The Information Paradox
I mention this because what I see, in the fitness industry, is the rampant stealing and rebranding of ideas as though they "belong" to the people regurgitating them.By The Angry Coach
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EFS Classic: GPP for High School Freshmen
We tested all of the athletes on the four core exercises. No one reached any of the goals.By Mark McLaughlin
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2012 NFL Scouting Combine Report for Rep 1 Sports Group Athletes
What is important to recognize is that the careful management of all fundamental components of preparation is the most significant difference maker in an environment when athlete talent is abound.By James "The Thinker" Smith
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MMA: Painful Training for the Big Fight
If we get a bit uglier year by year through our craft...maybe we should work a bit more on defenses.By Shaun Mirjavadi
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The Strength & Conditioning Internship: A Simple Guide for Strength & Conditioning Coaches, Part 1
Organizing and implementing a quality internship program can enhance the overall goals of your strength and conditioning program, which has limited budgets and resources.By Mark Watts
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The Thinking Beast: The Necessity of Being a Consummate Individual
I won’t focus on only one field because I want to do the best I possibly could in each field.By Sameer Saklani
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NFL Combine Prep, High School Studs and the Inverted Juggernaut Method
I’m enjoying training and life right now and plan on continuing to do that.By Chad Wesley Smith
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Articles: Facebook Fan Favorites
My all-time favorite article is 27 Reasons to Be Big.By EFS Readers
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The Angry Coach: Observations on MMA Training
And if I hear the words "muscle confusion" one more f-ing time, I think my head might explode.By The Angry Coach
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EFS Classic: Athletic Preparation or Destruction
The Process of Attaining Sports Mastery (PASM) is a multi-year and tremendously complex endeavor. The PASM encompasses the training and development of every conceivable physical, psychological, technical, and tactical component of sport performance.By James Smith
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For the Coach From the Coach: We Are Educators
“When you think of a strength coach, you think of loud music, yelling, and chalk. We have all that and so much more.”By Todd Hamer
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Seven Lessons of a Transfer Athlete
An often overlooked group in collegiate sports are the people who aren’t with a team from freshman year through senior year.By B. N. Davidson
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Guide to Implementing and Troubleshooting the Hang Clean
Olympic lifts are one of the most polarizing topics in the sports performance world.By Connor Flahive
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The Angry Coach: “It’s a Shame…”
It's great that the fitness industry has blown up to the point where people can actually make a living online.By The Angry Coach
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The Angry Coach: 5 Things I Learned Last Week
Anyone who knows me personally is aware that I'm a life-long fan of the NY Giants.By The Angry Coach
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Remove the Extensor Block for a Faster Sprint
Just like the most effective bar path in powerlifting is a vertical line, there are optimal directions for movement in sports.By Eirik Sandvik
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Plyometric Considerations for Young Athletes, Part 1
Plyometrics (jump training) is a great tool for improving an athlete’s speed, power, explosiveness, elasticity, eccentric strength, and other aspects of the neuromuscular system such as rhythm, balance, proprioception, movement coordination, and agility.By Jeff King
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EFS Classic: Plyometric and Strength Program for Provincial Men’s Basketball Team
The following plyometric and strength training program is designed for use during the pre-competition phase from mid-February to mid-March, which is when the pre-season games begin (figure 1). It is assumed that all athletes have a solid base from the training during the specific preparation phase (SPP) and the general preparation phase (GPP). As shown in figure 1, all athletes will have just completed maximum strength training and speed training, focusing on increasing running speed.By Nathan Williams





























