“Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the...

The Tactical Strength Challenge is a twice-yearly event with participants all over the globe. For one day in April and October, people on...

As students of strength, it’s safe to say we’re all chasing some performance-related goal. Whether that’s becoming a StrongFirst...

Recently, a fellow trainer decided to seek my help. He’s a knowledgeable trainer; however, barbell work isn’t the focus of his training....

I open my eyes while, bathed in sweat, I slowly regain my breath control. I’m lying on the artificial grass contemplating the high dome...

Ten years ago I signed-up for my first Ironman triathlon. At that time, I had never swum more than 500 yards, never ridden a road bike,...

There are too many quotations and clichés about time. Philosophers ponder the subject and we all watch the seconds, minutes, hours, and...

Musicians, artists, and actors relentlessly, religiously hone their craft, greasing their own groove, making automatic the fundamentals...

“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” — Isaac Newton Standing on the shoulders of giants means...

Unlike many of my predecessors who have written articles about kettlebells, I have no acronyms after my name. I am not a trainer of any...

If attending the SFG Level I Certification has entered your mind as anything from a dream to a plan, you have some work to do. Training...

Willard (Jim) Sloan entered to compete in the StrongFirst Tactical Strength Challenge (TSC) last October. People enter the TSC for a lot...

As a competitive powerlifter, my bench has always been my Achilles’ heel. It has been the slowest to build for me, and a source of...

Today, I want to talk to you about the way you carry your strength. If you are already strong, this will be an opportunity for...

Originally from “Pushing to the Front” (1911) by Orison Swett Marden. Included in the collection “The Art of Manliness Manvotionals” by...

The subject of this blog came from a conversation with a friend about how “everything we need to know we learn from the iron.” Although,...

I despise class envy. In any form and in either direction. Today’s blog is about strength envy directed by today’s upper class toward the...

A smart-aleck newspaper columnist recently made fun of the “guys who bench a lot and then stare at the wall.” You have missed the point,...

I think I knew I wanted to be strong when I threw a boy for distance for the first time. It was June of 1997, in a little basement of a...

A while back I read a blog written by Ben Stein, Physics Meetings…The Truth about What Happens When Physicists Meet. He talked about...