In June 2003, I was injured during my apprenticeship to become a truck driver. An 830kg stone, the size of an oak barrel, fell from my...

Our most recent program at Queensland Kettlebells has included a lot of floor presses, with good reason. If you haven’t encountered the...

“Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we all burn.”—Delmore Schwartz Density Training Eighteen years ago, when...

If you’ve ever encountered StrongFirst Certified Team Leader Jimmy Yuan at a certification or event, you’ll probably remember him as the...

If training consistently is the foundation of results, does that mean doing the same thing over and over? If you want to keep making...

“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.” George Harrison Over my years as a coach, I have seen many people...

StrongFirst Podcast Episode #22 Summary Jon Engum, StrongFirst Master Instructor, joins your host, Craig Marker, to talk about martial...

StrongFirst Podcast Episode #11 Summary In this episode of the StrongFirst Podcast, your host Craig Marker talks with Pavel Macek, Senior...

StrongFirst Podcast Episode #07 Summary: In this episode of the StrongFirst Podcast, Craig Marker talks with Senior StrongFirst...

StrongFirst Podcast Episode – 03 Summary: In this episode Craig and Scott interview Dr. Travis Jewett about what it means to move right...

StrongFirst Podcast Episode – 02 Summary: In this 2nd episode of “StrongFirst,” the official podcast of the StrongFirst School of...

“Not everything that matters can be measured, and not everything that is measured matters.” Elliot Eisner We live in the age of “Big...

Kettlebells. Do they have a role in the clinical setting? Should they be used in a rehabilitation for patients in the outpatient physical...

What is the sound of one hand clapping? A philosophical riddle on par with: what is a one-legged kettlebell swing? And what does this...

“Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the...

First thing’s first: You can’t let your ego keep you from reaching your true potential. When trying to improve your pull-up, it is often...

As 2017 moves rapidly into 2018, I want to update you on some changes and suggestions for the coming year. If any of you have picked up...

When I first started training Simple & Sinister in 2014, I never planned on reaching the Sinister goal. The thought of one-arm swings...

“I learned no detail was too small. It was all about the details.”—Brad Gray As an Instructor, I walk the line between seeing all the...

It’s well known that the swing is the center of the kettlebell universe. All the basic ballistic kettlebell movements depend on a strong...