Buying Your Own Belt by Major Grant Broggi, SSC | April 16, 2019 In 2011 while stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma I began going to a local gym owned by Jim Denofa, who is now a good friend of mine. I had been weight training for some time, utilizing the big lifts and linear progression-style lifting, but I had never really received any coaching on how to correctly do any of the movements... Continue reading
Can You Squat Too Deep? by Mark Rippetoe | April 09, 2019 Depends on why you're squatting. If you are squatting to get as much muscle mass as strong as possible over the longest effective range of motion, you sure can squat too deep. Here's why: Continue reading
Staying Tight on the Bench by Emily Socolinsky, SSC | April 02, 2019 The bench is a full-body lift and an excellent exercise to help people understand how to stabilize the shoulders. It is not just a lying-down press, although it looks like it might be – just lie down on the bench, grab the bar and start benching, right? Continue reading
Back Overextension by Inna Koppel, SSC | March 26, 2019 As a coach in a female-only facility, I find myself commonly addressing a problem seen in my lifters – lower back overextension. This is due to a lack of abdominal strength and a natural proclivity to extension. Continue reading
Which Book? by Mark Rippetoe | March 19, 2019 We are often asked about books to read for information on the lifts and programming. I really hate to be this way, but if I thought there were valuable sources of information on strength training that presented an equally valid approach to our method, I'd tell you. But there aren't, and that's why we wrote the books we publish. Continue reading
