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Jun 30, 20167 min read
Easy Strength Is Antifragility Training
“Everything in excess is opposed to nature”—Hippocrates Perhaps you, the reader, are familiar with Easy Strength by Pavel and Dan John,...
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StrongFirst
Jun 14, 20166 min read
The 1TRM EV PS Program: Escalating Volume in the Plan Strong Style
Note: In my last article, How to Intelligently Define, Determine, and Test Your 1RM, I promised to follow up with a more advanced...
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StrongFirst
May 12, 20165 min read
Use “Time Under Load” to Solve the Group Class Time Crunch
Group classes require an instructor be a combination of entertainer, drill sergeant, and life guard. You have to keep people engaged,...
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StrongFirst
Apr 14, 20167 min read
How to Intelligently Define, Determine, and Test Your 1RM
After the publication of my article The 5TRM Back Squat Program, I received many comments and emails with questions about the real...
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StrongFirst
Mar 29, 20165 min read
The 3 Pillars: How to Build Skill While Being Real
“I never went to the gym to workout. I went to the gym to learn and the workout was a byproduct.”—Dr. Ed Thomas In my work with Dr....
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StrongFirst
Feb 23, 20166 min read
How Plan Strong Programming Empowers the Weightlifter
When I saw the announcement of the Plan Strong workshop in 2014, I knew it was something I had to attend. I signed up immediately and was...
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StrongFirst
Jan 12, 20166 min read
Strength Is a Skill — Strength Is Liberating
When one of the athletes I’m training insists on using poor form to complete a movement, I ask him or her, “What are you practicing?” The...
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StrongFirst
Nov 10, 20154 min read
Experience and Skill Will Always Trump Science
Are You Really a Scientist? “Knowing the other and knowing oneself, In one hundred battles no danger. Not knowing the other and knowing...
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StrongFirst
Sep 1, 20152 min read
Posture: An Easy Way to Up Your Performance
Posture What would happen to the sprinter if she were slouched over? A waste of her remarkable muscle power. The full contact karateka’s...
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StrongFirst
Jul 7, 20159 min read
A Long Way to Press: Work Capacity, Levers, and Tall People
“The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. Usually because the manure is deeper.” —Gene Dudgeon PART 1: TALL PEOPLE...
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StrongFirst
Jun 30, 20154 min read
The Case for Grease-the-Groove Jump Training
So you want to improve your jumping ability? First, get strong and symmetrical. Then start “greasing the groove” (GTG) with all sorts of...
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StrongFirst
Jun 23, 20155 min read
10 Reasons Your Progress Is Stalling
Disclaimer: One of the advantages of being both a senior doctor and a strength coach is being able to see a wide spread of people —...
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StrongFirst
May 19, 20154 min read
What is “Work Capacity”? [Part II]
The original Russian term rabotosposobnost literally translates into “work ability.” A better translation would be “potential...
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StrongFirst
May 5, 20154 min read
What is “Work Capacity”? [Part I]
The words “work capacity” have joined the fashionable jargon of the industry. What exactly do they mean? Some folks envision a sweaty...
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StrongFirst
Apr 21, 20155 min read
“Long Rests”: A Revolution in Interval Training
In the beginning he was Christopher Bellew. By the time he was at college he had become Chris Bellew. Later, in the Bohemian crowd of San...
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StrongFirst
Apr 7, 20153 min read
The Patience of Strength: the Russian Science of Rest Intervals
“Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel,” wrote Shakespeare in Henry V. “They will eat like wolves and fight like devils.”...
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StrongFirst
Mar 24, 20153 min read
The Top 5 Ab Training Mistakes
By now, proper abdominal training should not be a mystery. The body of experience and scientific knowledge serve up powerful methods on a...
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StrongFirst
Mar 10, 20154 min read
How to Build Your Slow Fibers Part III
Note: To put this article in context, read Should You Build Your Slow Fibers?, How to Build Your Slow Fibers, Part I, and How to Build...
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StrongFirst
Feb 24, 20152 min read
How to Build Your Slow Fibers, Part II
Note: This article continues the series started in Should You Build Your Slow Fibers? and continued in How to Build Your Slow Fibers,...
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StrongFirst
Feb 10, 20155 min read
How to Build Your Slow Fibers, Part I
You may have guessed that slow fibers take slow movements to train them. To appreciate the challenge of super slow consider the “Golden...
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