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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
26 January 2012 10:16 AM | 10 Comments
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Sports Training Archive
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EFS Classic: The 10 Commandments of Conditioning
No matter what sport you compete in, you’ll probably agree that conditioning plays a huge factor in how an athlete performs. If athletes aren’t conditioned properly, they’ll never achieve peak performance in their sport.By Jonathan Conneely
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The Angry Coach: Top Three General Mistakes
Just something to think about when you're in the middle of the learning process – like we all still are.By The Angry Coach
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All-Star Parenting
Working with youth athletes has been an experience that has taught me several lessons.By Nick Showman
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Kroc’s NPC Michigan State Championships Show
NPC Michigan State Championships As many of you probably ended up hearing already, I took second last night. It was a huge disappointment for sure, but has motivated me more than ever. We often learn more from our failures than we do from our successes and I definitely feel this is the case here. Improvements [...]By Matt Kroczaleski
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The Thinker: Sport Training Program Management – The Criminal Nature of its Absence
The problem must be identified before the solution is drawn. If you are currently employed in a capacity that is contributing to the problem it is your choice as to whether you will recognize and perpetuate the problem or change your course in favor of long term athlete development and the improvement of your sporting organization.By James "The Thinker" Smith
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Evidence-Based Practice Versus Practice-Based Evidence
I don’t question the importance of delivering a well-researched and subsequently effective program to athletes.By Tim Harper
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Keck’s Column: Strength: Are You Building it, or Just Testing it?
There's certainly a time and place to test your strength, occasionally in the gym and always on the platform.By Michael Keck
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The Science of Strength: Reading Research, Pt. I
It’s important to know that scientific/medical papers are rarely “how-to guides.” Instead, they seek to answer very specific questions.By Brandon Patterson
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The Angry Coach: High School Strength Coaches – Don’t Make This Mistake
I learned that it's pointless to bring a gun to a knife fight, if you will.By The Angry Coach
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Prowler® 2 Sweepstakes Winner
So now, with our Prowler® 2 Sweepstakes closed, what should the prize for the next elitefts™ contest be?By Steve Colescott
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The Darden Diaries
Never forget that you have to feed the machine.By Clint Darden
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By the Coach for the Coach: Follow the Chain
How do we get an athlete who achieved a certain level of strength to change what he is doing in order to achieve even greater results?By Todd Hamer
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Training Concepts, Recovery and Knee Rehab with Buddy Morris
These videos made me realize what I needed to do in order to preserve longevitiy in doing what I love...lifting!! I just wish I came across these videos a few years back because it might have saved me from a lot of the frustration I'm experiencing now.By EFS Staff
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The Final Days: How Bad Do You Want It?
Are you up to the challenge?By EFS Staff
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Speed Development
An athlete with more power has greater torque, leading to a quicker athlete with more top end speed.By John Hughes
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How to Introduce Power Phases for Athletes
For athletes, it’s important to build strength levels using the big exercises—the squat, deadlift, bench, pull-ups, and other similar movements.By Anthony Shaw
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The Angry Coach: Two More High School Football Head Coach Mistakes
My advice? If you hired a strength coach, listen to what the guy says and let him run shit.By The Angry Coach
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EFS Classic: Less Is More
Growing up I was always the skinniest, weakest kid in school.By Jason Ferruggia
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Reno Hardcore: Technique
I'm continually amazed how so many top sports see the importance of technique, but strength athletes seem to pay little attention to it or have no idea what good technique actually is.By Chad Aichs
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The 55 Best Prowler® Programs
Each person drinks a beer. Rotate to next pair and repeat.By EFS Readers
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How to Use the Sled for Virtually Everything
How many of you in the "elitefts™ family" have a sled, Prowler®, or homemade version of one of these?By Charles Gardner
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Training Principles: The Science Behind Improving Athletic Performance
There are many different schools of thought, each with their own ideas on how to train athletes in order to increase athletic performance. So how does one know which particular program will work for any given athlete?By Nathan Williams
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Overview of Periodization Methods for Resistance Training
This is a must read for any trainer, coach or athlete interested in the programming of training.By Mladen Jovanović
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Simple Speed: Training the Young Athlete
For many years, speed was considered some mystified aspect of sport performance that was measurable but unchanging.By Bill Rom
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10 + 1 Tips for Strength Coaches
Having worked my way through the ranks to be a collegiate strength coach, I've picked up a few things that other coaches can use to improve their own careers.By David Adamson
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Do the Pros Look to Little League for Advice on Pitching?
In the studies conducted on youth and adult pitchers, it was established that most injuries occur from overuse.By Dr. Michael Yessis
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JTS: Improving the Olympic Lifts for Non-Olympic Lifters
It's extremely possible for athletes to become very strong (relative to other athletes in their sport) in the Olympic lifts without devoting much energy towards themBy Chad Wesley Smith
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The Force-Velocity Curve
Periodization is an important topic in the strength and conditioning world.By Jamie Bain
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If I Knew Then What I Know Now: It’s About Making “The Decision”
What decision are YOU going to make? I know, you know!By Harry Selkow
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The Angry Coach: 5 Reasons Why Your Internet Fitness Guru is Full of Shit
elitefts™ Sunday edition 5 Reasons Why Your Internet Fitness Guru is Full of Shit I was very fortunate over the years to get involved with some very influential people in the fitness/strength training industry. When I first started coaching high school football years ago, I trained (just like everyone else), but I really only had [...]By The Angry Coach
