How to Train Your Way to Owning a Strict Hanging Leg Raise
A strength skill that is often underutilized is the hanging leg raise (HLR). Properly performed HLRs build a strong grip, lats, and core,...
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Oct 4, 20163 min read
Under Pressure: A Small But Crucial Adjustment to Your Get-up
“The only way to handle pressure is to apply it.”—Darrelle Revis I would add that handling pressure means properly applying it. The area...
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Aug 16, 20165 min read
A Simple Handbook for Pistol Assessment and Correction
At StrongFirst, we pride ourselves in teaching progressions that will help every trainee and every athlete advance their technique and...
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Jul 19, 20164 min read
The Keys to Executing a Successful Weighted Tactical Pull-Up
The chain rattled as he looped it through the kettlebell, securing it to his belt. He gripped the pull-up bar and lowered himself into a...
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Jun 7, 20163 min read
A Critical Get-up Transition: From the Elbow to the Hand
A student of mine once described the get-up as being comprised of “frames of a comic strip”—meaning there are definitive positions to hit...
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May 17, 20163 min read
What to Do With Your Free Hand During a One-arm Swing
It is one of the enduring questions of inquiring minds. What do I do with my free hand during a one-arm swing? (That, and if you are...
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May 10, 20165 min read
One Good Rep: How to Perform the Perfect Pistol
The pistol is often looked at with fear, but if taught with the proper progression path and practiced with patience, it can be achieved...
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Apr 19, 20164 min read
Personal Space Rules When Snatching the Kettlebell
We have all joked about our personal space. From a basic psychological perspective our personal space can be defined as: “[T]he area...
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StrongFirst
Apr 12, 20165 min read
One Good Rep: How to Perform the Perfect Push-up
If one good repetition is great then more must be even better, right? In the fitness industry, we see more and more crazy trends toward...
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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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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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Aug 25, 20152 min read
3 Squat Tips: Understanding Squat Cues
Memories of my first kettlebell certification with Pavel back in October, 2007 are still branded in my mind as a reminder of how green I...
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Nov 24, 20142 min read
SFG Level I Certification: 3 + 6 = Excellence
Three days, six exercises. Simple. That is what the StrongFirst SFG Level I Certification is. Sure, there are tests, both physical and...
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Sep 23, 20142 min read
How to Get the Most Out of Earning Your SFG
Congratulations! You have separated yourself from the pack and joined the alpha predator of the strength and development field — you are...
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Apr 22, 20146 min read
Things Are Going So Well, Help Me Screw It Up, Part 2
By Dan John, Master SFG and Mike Warren Brown, SFG Note: Continued from Part 1 All too often we see well meaning instructors fresh out of...
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Jan 7, 20142 min read
Improve Your Get-up and Improve Your One-hand Swing
Recently I designed a training session that involves the get-up and the one-hand swing. I designed this session to help clients gain a...
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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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Aug 12, 20133 min read
Use Kettlebell Complexes to Achieve Technical Perfection
A “complex” of different kettlebell exercises strung together in an intelligent manner delivers many benefits: muscle hypertrophy, fat...
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Jun 29, 20135 min read
The Courage to Do Less: StrongFirst and Sumi-e
A few weeks ago, I was testing some of my lifts in preparation for attending an upcoming StrongFirst Barbell Certification. Despite...
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Jun 17, 20132 min read
If It Looks Right, It Flies Right
Ron Swanson from Parks & Recreation thus spoke about poise: “Sting like a bee. Don’t float like a butterfly. That’s ridiculous.” The...
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