Resilient ankles, antifragile knees, strong legs—and a lesson in many important principles of balance, flexibility, and strength: these...

“It’s all easy till it’s heavy!”—Mark Reifkind Having performed, judged, and observed many heavy or max attempts in various lifts, I can...

In the strength and conditioning world, we frequently hear that quality is more important than quantity regarding training. For those...

Lose fat, Increase strength, Kill your strength tests, Repeat. What I am about to share is the nutrition plan that allowed me to drop...

You are one step closer on your journey to a handstand push-up (HSPU). If you spent time on the bent-arm strength progression I outlined...

With any new skill, it is important to first focus on building a solid foundation and then advance slowly through each progression. In...

I’ve been asked numerous times to formally outline my triple progression system. In reality, it’s not mine—it’s as old as the hills....

Powerlifting is a brutally simple sport—he or she with the most plates on the bar wins. Of course, as strength athletes, we know there is...

On September 17, 2006, I attended my first kettlebell certification course. At the time, kettlebell training wasn’t as widely embraced as...

Headstands are great place to begin your journey to a handstand push-up (HSPU). They allow you to get comfortable upside down while...

“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”—St. Francis of Assisi. If somebody...

Back in spring of 2015, Mark Limbaga came up with the concept of a step/wave hybrid cycle. Once he shared the basic concepts with me, I...

The push press is a bit like the clean. The clean gets neglected because the swing and snatch are “so much cooler.” The push press seems...

Most obstacle course racers are obstacle course enthusiasts, not strength enthusiasts. To the obstacle course racing (OCR) athlete,...

There’s something about putting heavy weight over your head that empowers you. But getting to the point where you have considerable...

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

Odds are you have some fond memories of college. Odds are also that you remember doing something you’re not very proud of during that...

“Everything in excess is opposed to nature”—Hippocrates Perhaps you, the reader, are familiar with Easy Strength by Pavel and Dan John,...

Note: In my last article, How to Intelligently Define, Determine, and Test Your 1RM, I promised to follow up with a more advanced...

You know what, I get it. No really, I get it. You think of calisthenics as a back-up plan when you don’t have any iron handy, rather than...