The 5-Week TSC Deadlift Plan

If you have decent technique and have been building your base with sets of five, the following plan will give you more than a fighting chance of a deadlift PR.

The Origins of StrongFirst Programming: The Soviet System

An experienced eye can easily see the logic behind an American training plan. A Russian plan, when you look at it up close, is just noise. You have to step a lot farther back to see the pattern in what appears to be chaos.

Tactical Strength Challenge: Spring 2014 Results and Tips

Announcing the winners of the Spring 2014 TSC, as well as Ollie Quinn's story of how he trained to win the Men’s Elite Division accompanied by analysis and commentary.

He Did Not Return From the Battle

God rest in peace the strong souls of the warriors who gave their lives for a just cause. We will never forget. For the living doing their duty today, here is a training tip.

Moving Target Kettlebell Complex: Plan B

StrongFirst continues to present our readers’ solutions to putting together a six-week program based on the Moving Target Kettlebell Complex. Here, we take a look at Dave T.'s Plan B.

Forward to the Past: the Best Strength Systems

The surprising truth is the strength-training methods of the 1980s were decidedly superior to today’s methods. To go forward, we must go BACK to the future.

The Mental Toughness of a Strength Athlete

My goal is to instill respect in an all-out strength effort as an act of mental toughness every bit in the league with an exhausting race. And to remind you the meaning of respect, period.

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

If you do not compete in powerlifting, then you have no business arching your lower back like the pros in the bench press. But you can and should use one professional technique called the “lateral arch.”

No Substitutions

I have news for you. Being full of yourself for no reason whatsoever is the ticket to wasting your twenties and possibly thirties. In training and in other aspects of your life.

Moving Target Kettlebell Complex, Part II

I asked the readers with program design experience to build a four- to six-week training plan around the Moving Target Kettlebell Complex. Here is Dave T.'s solution.