Category: Programming
Understanding the difference between lifts, exercises, and feats of strength will simplify your life and make it easier to reach your goals.
From the general health perspective, the best ways we can exercise can be learned from taking a look at the movement and exercise habits of primitive man.
When you don’t know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable. But when you stand for something, decisions are obvious.
At StrongFirst, we do not reinvent the wheel; we refine what our predecessors have done. As for the StrongFirst programming, it is a 2.0 version of the methodology of Soviet weightlifters.
Master SFG Mark Reifkind insightfully warned, “Don’t live in your sports posture.” Which is where bodybuilding pull-ups and rows come in. As correctives.
You must be tactically flexible to accommodate to the opportunities and limitations of each implement in regards to kettlebells, barbells, and bodyweight training.
To create good programming, you need to study successful program designs of strength coaches operating within the same training system.
StrongFirst is the Glock of our industry. Our leading instructors have had the privilege of coaching world champions, consulting world record holders, and training elite special operators.
It's been over a decade since I first discovered Pavel. The effect of Pavel's teachings on my training has been profound—and I have never trained the same since finding his work.
This one is going to be simple. There is only one contender for best upper body pull—a hollow position pull-up, strict and heavy.