Often, we get too focused on one thing. In my case, it’s usually work. This approach works for a while, but if we don’t balance out the...

I have had the opportunity to strength train my two daughters for the last few years. Savannah is sixteen years old, 5’10”, a junior in...

For years, kettlebell instructor Missy Beaver has been placing a set of swings between sets of everything else. She has had great success...

2015 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the classic film Back to the Future. What makes this anniversary special is 2015 is the...

There are many ways to get strong. Most are mediocre, some are effective, a handful are extraordinary. One—if not the only—system in the...

As a competitive powerlifter, my bench has always been my Achilles’ heel. It has been the slowest to build for me, and a source of...

A while back I was looking for a challenge, and decided to go for fifty consecutive pistol squats. I could not find anyone performing...

There is a restaurant in California that serves a mean burger and uncompromisingly refuses to change it in any way. No, we will not hold...

StrongFirst continues to present our readers’ solutions to putting together a six-week program based on the Moving Target Kettlebell...

By Dan John, Master SFG and Mike Warren Brown, SFG Note: Continued from Part 1 All too often we see well meaning instructors fresh out of...

Several months ago, StrongFirst published Moving Target Kettlebell Complex, a workout we sometimes put the students through at the SFG...

We just had our second child—a daughter. She’s amazing, as is the pure lack of sleep we are experiencing. It is not uncommon for me to...

Several years ago I designed a practice based on an idea I got from Maxwell’s omelet workout—the difference being, where the omelet...

At a recent SFG Kettlebell Certification, Dan John and I were waxing poetic about the sheer perfection of a program of swings, goblet...

There are two types of training a strength seeker must do: Perform a number of sets with moderate weights and reps, e.g. 5×5. This builds...

If you got all excited by the title of this article, I hate to bring you back to reality—but I’m going to do so anyway. There is no...

At every Barbell Certification and Bodyweight Certification I get the same question: “If StrongFirst is a principle-based school of...

There are many ways to train for a deadlift only event. You can find some great preparatory cycles and training methods in many of...

The “5×5” method is credited to Reg Park, a bodybuilder who built a 500-pound bench press in the 1950s. This method remains one of the...

A few weeks ago, I was testing some of my lifts in preparation for attending an upcoming StrongFirst Barbell Certification. Despite...