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How to Become a Barbell Instructor With Kettlebells

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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What Chocolate Chip Cookies and Guinness Beer Can Teach You About Barbell Basics

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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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Building on Strength: Year-end Review and 2019 Preview

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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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How Mastering the Pause can Boost your Bench Press

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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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Barbell BDSM: the Secret Marathon Training and Recovery Strategy

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Aug 21, 20186 min read

Barbell BDSM: the Secret Marathon Training and Recovery Strategy

With August upon us, members of the StrongFirst community from the New York City area and elsewhere have already begun their preparations...

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A Look Inside the StongFirst Lifter (SFL) Barbell Instructor Certification

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May 15, 201810 min read

A Look Inside the StongFirst Lifter (SFL) Barbell Instructor Certification

Which came first in your strength training experience—the barbell, or the kettlebell? Kettlebell, barbell, and bodyweight (the third...

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Apr 17, 20188 min read

Quarterly Update: Back to the Barbell

“He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze...

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What You Need to Know About the Lats and Your Front Squat

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Nov 28, 20174 min read

What You Need to Know About the Lats and Your Front Squat

During the StrongFirst SFL Certification, I might mention the word “lats” one or two times. Once you understand the anatomy and the...

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How to Get Properly Loaded in the Deadlift and Swing

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Jul 25, 20175 min read

How to Get Properly Loaded in the Deadlift and Swing

Not so fast—”getting loaded” means something completely different at StrongFirst. Getting “loaded” means an active eccentric to the bar...

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The Dangers of Circumducitur Cervicalis Syndrome and How to Prevent It

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Nov 1, 20166 min read

The Dangers of Circumducitur Cervicalis Syndrome and How to Prevent It

Circumducitur cervicalis syndrome is also known as rotating cervical syndrome. Do neither of those names sound familiar to you? Well,...

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How to Prepare for, Pass, and Get the Most Out of the SFL

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Aug 23, 20167 min read

How to Prepare for, Pass, and Get the Most Out of the SFL

The SFG is StrongFirst’s most well-known certification, and is widely considered the gold standard for kettlebell certification. But...

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Jul 28, 20165 min read

Zen and the Art of Barbell Training

Recently, I met up with an old friend from high school for dinner. We hadn’t seen each other in approximately eighteen years, so you...

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The Difference a Body Positive Approach Can Make

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Jun 16, 20167 min read

The Difference a Body Positive Approach Can Make

If you are particularly fortunate, you know that being as healthy and strong as possible is extremely important and are ready to do...

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The Lateral Arch: A Secret Weapon for a Big Bench Press

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Jun 10, 20142 min read

The Lateral Arch: A Secret Weapon for a Big Bench Press

It is an axiom: if you want to bench big, you must arch big. An arch shortens the range of motion, puts you into a much stronger decline...

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Build a Barbell Military Press on a Kettlebell Foundation

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Dec 17, 20133 min read

Build a Barbell Military Press on a Kettlebell Foundation

The barbell military press is a classic test of upper body strength and a powerful strength builder. At StrongFirst, we teach it on a...

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Why Kettlebells, Barbells, and Bodyweight Demand Different Programming

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Aug 26, 20134 min read

Why Kettlebells, Barbells, and Bodyweight Demand Different Programming

At every Barbell Certification and Bodyweight Certification I get the same question: “If StrongFirst is a principle-based school of...

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Jun 3, 20132 min read

Kettlebells and Deadlifts, Part 2

Several months ago, I wrote how a girevik should go about converting the posterior chain strength he or she has built with swings and...

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Why You Should Study Barbells in Addition to Kettlebells

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May 9, 20133 min read

Why You Should Study Barbells in Addition to Kettlebells

I started training with barbells when I was seventeen years old during my senior year in high school. Our weight room was the size of a...

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