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The antelope was grazing, oblivious of the superbly camouflaged cat stealthily closing in. The predator flowed like mercury, hugging the...
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Jul 16, 20198 min read
Running Without Running: Training For A Half-Marathon When You Have A Full Schedule
Smart runners know a little strength training goes a long way to helping improve performance and reduce risk of injury. Smart coaches...
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Jul 9, 20197 min read
How Heavy Clubs Eliminate Weakness, Build Strength, and Complement Kettlebells
From winning a jiu-jitsu world championship, to serving in the Italian Army, to running close protection security for diplomats and...
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Jul 3, 20196 min read
Strength for Life’s Fights
Life happens. It can be unpredictable and hard, and extremely satisfying. For many of us, training is a big part of our lives. But...
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Jun 24, 20198 min read
Pull-Up Power: From No Reps to Getting Over the Bar with 36kg
Ah, the trusty pull-up. Once a staple of every child’s PE class, it has fallen by the wayside as physical education in schools has...
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Jun 18, 20199 min read
How to Become a Barbell Instructor With Kettlebells
Strength is a skill…and you’ve decided that it’s time to add SFL skills to your toolbox. But you have limited barbell experience and zero...
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Jun 11, 20196 min read
55-Seconds to Kettlebell Snatch Test Success
The (dreaded) snatch test. Five minutes (of suck) that many StrongFirst instructors consider the most stressful in their certifying or...
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Jun 5, 20195 min read
Strengthening Your Olympic Lifts with StrongFirst Skills
Kettlebells. Barbells. Bodyweight. Three different modalities that share a common theme: they are designed to help us get stronger. We...
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May 29, 20199 min read
Get Started: Foundational Principles of Results-driven Kettlebell Training
There’s a lot more to getting stronger than the actions of simply, and progressively, lifting more. Much of it has to do with caring...
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May 22, 20198 min read
From the Battlefield to Back Injury to Beast Tamer: Ollie Quinn’s Kettlebell Journey
Have you ever seen one of the “Army Strong” commercials? Well in the UK, there’s no stronger or more capable military unit than the Royal...
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May 14, 20196 min read
Getting to the Bottom of a Great Pistol Squat: 3 Tips to Improve Yours
The pistol squat is one of the hallowed movements among fitness lovers—especially bodyweight aficionados. While they’re not for everyone,...
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May 7, 20194 min read
Are You Training in Your Now or in Your Then: Residual Self-Image
“Your appearance now is what we call residual self-image. It is the mental projection of your digital self.” Morpheus from the Matrix The...
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Apr 30, 20197 min read
Consistency Trumps Intensity—The Continuity of the Training Process
Adapting to load is what makes us stronger. But because training loads can be manipulated in so many ways—intensity, magnitude,...
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Apr 23, 20195 min read
How I Became a World Record Holder
Training for a world record requires grit. Many may approach the challenge preparation by continually pushing for more “burn.” But there...
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Apr 16, 20197 min read
Five Energy Leaks to Plug so Your Strength Gains Flow
As we continue our pursuit of strength, we are regularly threatened by a stealthy nemesis that rears its head between us and our goals....
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Apr 2, 20197 min read
Where to Go to Get Strong: Creating Your Courage Corner
I first came across the term courage corner when reading StrongFirst CEO Pavel Tsatsouline’s book The Russian Kettlebell Challenge....
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Mar 26, 20195 min read
What Is Your Strength’s Purpose?
We believe that strength has a greater purpose—and that purpose goes far beyond the ability to lift weight or move loads. Being...
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Mar 19, 20197 min read
What Mastering Your Bodyweight Can Teach You About Lifting Iron
A common path for our students pursuing the StrongFirst Elite designation is to start with the kettlebell instructor certifications...
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Mar 12, 20194 min read
What Chocolate Chip Cookies and Guinness Beer Can Teach You About Barbell Basics
On the flight home from teaching a StrongFirst Lifter certification (SFL), I was thinking about the programming section and some of our...
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Mar 5, 20196 min read
Reload vs Plan Strong—What is the Difference?
By Fabio Zonin, Master SFG and Pavel Tsatsouline Earlier this year, we launched “Reload: Your Barbell Strength Blueprint,” a concise...
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