3 Simple Modifications to Squat When in Pain
Our bodies are built to adapt. How else would we ever develop the strength (mental and physical) to meet challenges or compete in sports,...
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Feb 19, 20196 min read
Two Swing Cues to Unlock your Power, Posture, and Athleticism
There is a big difference between swinging a kettlebell around and executing a powerful kettlebell swing. The first is common with...
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Feb 12, 20197 min read
7 Tips to Improve your Heavy Press (Learned from my Failure)
A press is like an iceberg—there’s a lot going on underneath the surface. What can you learn from failure? A lot. Especially when it...
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Feb 5, 20199 min read
The Bottoms-Up Experiment
Want to forge an iron grip that lasts (which can be one of the quickest ways to improve your deadlift, pull-ups, and snatches)? Improve...
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Jan 29, 20194 min read
The Key to Efficient Strength—Give and Take
Regardless of their sport, high-level athletes have an astonishing ‘gift’ of making the most complex moves look easy. How? With years of...
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Jan 22, 20196 min read
My Journey to the Beast: Pressing a 48kg Kettlebell
How do you go from pressing 28kg to 48kg? At under 80kg bodyweight? With a technique-solidifying, base-building, high-volume press plan...
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Jan 15, 20194 min read
Research Breakdown: Why Does Exercise Make us Healthier?
Why does exercise make us healthier? One of the most important linkages may be due to improving our mitochondrial functioning. Healthier...
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Jan 6, 201910 min read
How to Boost Your Athletic Power with Kettlebells…and a PUSH Band
Knowing StrongFirst hardstyle principles and intentionally accelerating a kettlebell will undoubtedly produce more power during any lift....
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StrongFirst
Dec 31, 20185 min read
Building on Strength: Year-end Review and 2019 Preview
“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.” Hal Borland As we...
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Dec 27, 20183 min read
Knowing When Not to Grind
Goals are some of the most powerful fuels for progress in life, business, and training. But recognizing when a temporary pull-back may...
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Dec 18, 20184 min read
How Video can Improve your TGU: Videoception
In simple terms, proprioception is the sense of knowing where you are and what you are doing. And the get-up is the perfect pattern to...
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Dec 11, 20184 min read
Simplify your Strength Programming Using Die-Rolled Variability
What is the best plan for any strength or fitness goal? It’s the one that you will consistently follow. A reasonable program done...
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StrongFirst
Dec 4, 20185 min read
How to Increase your Pullups by 50 Percent (at Least)
Want to increase your pullup reps? How about improve your pullup technique? We have a program that delivers and, provided you follow its...
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Nov 27, 20183 min read
Something Old is New Again: Refining Your Get-up
Being a student of strength means having the courage to challenge habits and biases. Because of its complexity, the get-up offers many...
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Nov 20, 20184 min read
How Mastering the Pause can Boost your Bench Press
How do you boost your bench press? By mastering the pause between your concentric and eccentric movements. Master SFG Dr. Michael Hartle...
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Nov 13, 20186 min read
Get Stronger with Odd-load Kettlebell Training
Life is unpredictable. So training that helps us withstand and react to asymmetrical loads and stresses goes a long way in making us more...
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Nov 8, 20184 min read
How to Get Stronger With Less Volume and More Focus
Training for the general sake of getting stronger is great. But having a specific goal within a realistic timeframe helps inform your...
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Nov 6, 20184 min read
How to be a Better Strength Coach and Student
Becoming the best version of yourself—either coach or student—usually means exploring the other side of your tendencies and preferences....
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Nov 1, 20183 min read
How to Sync Your Breathing for More Kettlebell Power
Kettlebell ballistics have very little to do with the kettlebell—and everything to do with how you move your body. When it comes to...
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StrongFirst
Oct 23, 20185 min read
Press Stronger NOW with the Kettlebell Pull Press
We all want a stronger kettlebell press. Boosting your strength baseline makes everything else, everything before, relatively easier. But...
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