Adapting to load is what makes us stronger. But because training loads can be manipulated in so many ways—intensity, magnitude,...

Specificity and transfer are two of the most important considerations for any strength and conditioning program. If you don’t consider...

By Fabio Zonin, Master SFG and Pavel Tsatsouline Earlier this year, we launched “Reload: Your Barbell Strength Blueprint,” a concise...

What is the best plan for any strength or fitness goal? It’s the one that you will consistently follow. A reasonable program done...

With August upon us, members of the StrongFirst community from the New York City area and elsewhere have already begun their preparations...

Professional “Learners” We were all professional “learners” at some point. Think about it. Your “job” for the first 18 years or so was to...

My friend Jamie Crowder introduced me to the important distinction between “dilemma” and “problem” as it relates to martial arts...

In the current culture of the fitness world, it seems that taking extended rest periods or working at an intensity level that is less...

Multiple people have said “It is never fun” when describing the 5-minute snatch test at the SFG I Certification. Doing 100 reps is a rite...

Last year, I suggested this approach to planning out your training for the upcoming year. Now at the start of 2018, that idea along with...

“Skill consists of the ability to bring out some end result with maximum certainty and minimum outlay of energy.”—Guthrie, 1952 I am a...

Learning to listen to your body is a skill in and of itself. Once you begin listening and truly understanding your body—whether it is...

In college, I participated in an internship at a local hospital—as an understudy within the cardiac and pulmonary rehab programs. Most of...

Rhythm (you either have it or you don’t, that’s a fallacy….) Sorry, music flashback—that was my jam back in the day. Rhythm—not the...

Early on in my education with kettlebells, I would hear occasional stories about people who followed a pressing-intensive program (Rite...

At StrongFirst, we believe strength is the master quality, and we teach people how to become stronger. This doesn’t mean that we...

When my wife, Nikki, and I began kettlebell training back in 2008, we were introduced to high intensity interval training. We walked out...

In the 1950s, medical research was primarily done on Caucasian males. It was thought it would be simpler to study only one group. But in...

“Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don’t do well simply because they major in minor things.”—Jim Rohn I’m...

Circuit training has a bad reputation among strength athletes, but consider this – most likely circuit training has been presented to the...