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Increase Your Pressing Strength and Overhead Stability with the One-Arm Barbell Press

8 Comments / Articles, Blog / By Craig Marker

The one-arm strict barbell press is a challenging press that will build strength and muscle stability. Pavel recommended the side press in Power to the People! and this stricter variation is a valuable addition to your strength training regimen. The prehabilitation and rehabilitation benefits of the strict barbell press are tremendous as the grip and …

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Strong Endurance in Schools to Strengthen the Next Generation

15 Comments / Articles, Blog / By Jason Avelar

Strengthen Our Youth I currently teach at one of the best physical education schools in America. Prescott Junior High School was featured in the documentary “The Motivation Factor” which stresses the importance of being physically active. A big part of the documentary is the price American society is paying for not focusing on physical education …

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Preparing for BUD/S

7 Comments / Articles, Blog / By Eric Frohardt

Training has always been a passion of mine, actually it’s been more of an obsession. To say that I love to train would be an understatement. I need to train. Despite this obsession, it’s important for me to have a goal or at least an objective. These goals have taken several forms. The specific training …

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From Wheelchair to Sinister: The Importance of Mental Strength

24 Comments / Articles, Blog / By Malou Fehlbaum

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 truck and hit me on my lower back as I was standing leaning forward. The result was three broken vertebrae, a broken pelvis, and both legs broken all the …

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Introducing the StrongFirst “WOD”

59 Comments / Articles, Blog / By Pavel Tsatsouline

“If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success.” This caption for a New Yorker cartoon nails the “FOMO” mentality of a “workout of the day.” Then why, might you ask, is StrongFirst jumping on the bandwagon and introducing its own “WOD”? Please read on. The biological law of accommodation states that the response of an …

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How to Improve Your Performance by Rebalancing Your Body: A Lesson from a World Record Strongman

9 Comments / Articles, Blog / By John Brookfield

I would like to share a training method with you that is rarely understood in the realm of fitness but so powerful it completely saved me from persistent hip discomfort and tension within a few days. Over the course of a few months, I saw improved performance while hiking steep hills and a more powerful …

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Increase your thoracic extension and set the bar perpendicularly to your “golden area”

Bench Press More by Optimizing Your Bar Path

2 Comments / Articles, Blog / By Dr. Michael Hartle

When I teach the bench press during the StrongFirst Lifter Certification, the path of the bar section is one of my favorites. In the deadlift and the squats (Zercher, front, and back), the bar path is generally a straight, vertical line. However, in the bench press, many people curve the bar path from the start …

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The Snatch Pyramid: Optimize Your Snatch Training

14 Comments / Articles, Blog / By Tony Gracia

Kettlebell snatches are one of my personal favorite lifts. They are athletic and explosive. They can be done with a variety of weights, tempos, rep schemes, and in my experience, give more “what the heck” (WTH) effects than anything else. There is a unique and gratifying sense of completion when you lock out each rep …

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Special Operations Selection—How to Train for the Stress and Ambiguity of the World’s Toughest Test

11 Comments / Articles, Blog / By Craig Weller

Co-authored by Jonathan Pope Special operations selection courses are not just physically challenging. They’re also incredibly mentally and emotionally stressful. One of the most common ways of creating this stress is to shroud students in a constant cloud of ambiguity. You never know what’s coming next, how long it will last, or how much more …

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Stop Fearing Heavy Weights

31 Comments / Articles, Blog / By Fabio Zonin

Results are What Matter For decades I have heard about thousands of training related products that claimed to work magic for athletes, oftentimes supported by “abstracts” of research and clinical studies. But very few of them were ever mentioned again just a couple of years later. Similarly, the internet and social media expose us to …

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