“Your appearance now is what we call residual self-image. It is the mental projection of your digital self.” Morpheus from the Matrix The...

StrongFirst Podcast Episode #21 Summary Dr. Stu McGill joins the show for a second time to talk about breathing and when to use what kind...

StrongFirst Podcast Episode #11 Summary In this episode of the StrongFirst Podcast, your host Craig Marker talks with Pavel Macek, Senior...

“Not everything that matters can be measured, and not everything that is measured matters.” Elliot Eisner We live in the age of “Big...

Tammy Baskett is a 61-year-old dedicated student of strength and a massage therapy client of mine, but it hasn’t always been this way....

At StrongFirst, we recognize tension and relaxation as two sides of the same performance coin. But we often find it easy to focus...

Rhythm (you either have it or you don’t, that’s a fallacy….) Sorry, music flashback—that was my jam back in the day. Rhythm—not the...

Nothing can set your training back more than getting injured. When you are young, minor things heal quickly. But as you get toward...

Early on in my education with kettlebells, I would hear occasional stories about people who followed a pressing-intensive program (Rite...

Key Messages: Studies on “non-specific back pain” are not helpful, just as studies on non-specific head pain would not be helpful, nor...

If you know me well, you know that I LOVE strength training. If you’ve ever even had dinner with me, you know I LOVE strength training....

Each summer as the weather gets hot and the training gets brutal, I find it important for myself and my athletes to get outside the four...

“I want to be more flexible” is a statement I get from many of the young athletes I train. My immediate follow up of “Why?” is usually...

This is a little embarrassing to admit, but I was an obsessed bodybuilder for about six years of my life. My training was completely...

A few weeks ago, I saw a post on a fitness forum from a trainer complaining about a pain in his wrist accompanied by a “snapping” sound...