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...

On the flight home from teaching a StrongFirst Lifter certification (SFL), I was thinking about the programming section and some of our...

“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...

How do you boost your bench press? By mastering the pause between your concentric and eccentric movements. Master SFG Dr. Michael Hartle...

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

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

“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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...