Subject: StrongFirst Certified Instructors
StrongFirst Certified Instructors
February 18th, 2022 at 11:30 am MSTGreetings, StrongFirst Certified Instructors! Webinars For Your Eyes Only These webinars are available exclusively to you, our certified instructors, and they are free of charge. On March 12th from 1000AM until 1200 Eastern Standard Time, I will be ...
Increase your 1RM with the help of…a heart rate monitor
February 17th, 2022 at 10:00 am MSTThe definition of “intensity” varies greatly among athletic events. For example, in strength training it describes the heaviness of the weight and is usually measured in % 1RM. In endurance exercise one of the definitions of intensity is % MHR, t ...
20 observations from 20 years at our school of strength
February 15th, 2022 at 10:00 am MST[ARTICLE]20 Years and 20 Observations “In February of 2002 a group of 22 students assembled for the second ever kettlebell certification with Pavel.” Thus starts the new article by Brett Jones, StrongFirst Director of Education. “From water ba ...
Invitation to a new special event and a TOS meeting
February 10th, 2022 at 2:33 pm MSTTeachers of Strength, Strength must go on and it is time to reunite our team in the real world. Join your fellow members of our elite teaching team for a Friday afternoon hands-on update and sharpness check of all the branches of our School of Stre ...
Which exercises are best for A+A?
February 10th, 2022 at 10:00 am MSTA+A training delivers so many benefits and “what-the-hell effects” that it is easy to forget that its original purpose was narrow: making one’s fast fibers more aerobic. A+A is applicable to three types of exercises: GPP, SPP I, and SPP II. GPP ...
How to deconflict strength and endurance training
February 8th, 2022 at 10:00 am MSTToday we are not talking about training methods that deliver gains on multiple fronts like A+A or Q D. This issue of the StrongFirst newsletter focuses on specialized strength and endurance methods like heavy lifting and distance running. The closer ...
An unorthodox tactic for getting stronger in any lift or exercise
February 3rd, 2022 at 10:00 am MSTIt is not enough to have muscle; you must know how to use it. Soviet experiments revealed that even elite weightlifters made large errors in estimating the height of the lift, the magnitude of the force, etc. Then Robert Roman, a champion, scientist, ...
The basic science of A+A
February 1st, 2022 at 10:00 am MSTThe goal of A+A is to make intermediate and fast twitch fibers more aerobic by developing mitochondria within. The classic Soviet model makes it happen by stimulating maximal for the given muscle fibers aerobic activity and spending a lot of time in ...
Kettlebell snatch 911
January 27th, 2022 at 10:00 am MSTWould you like an extra kick towards the end of a “snatch or die” effort like the Tactical Strength Challenge kettlebell snatch event? Imagine performing a vertical jump out of the bottom of a snatch. This will bring your quads and calves into a ...
The birth and philosophy of A+A
January 25th, 2022 at 10:00 am MSTAs promised in the recent article about A+A training, we are kicking off the “A+A Q A” series. We will intersperse A+A issues with “our regular programming.” Russian coach Andrey Kozhurkin made a 50,000-foot observation on the two diametrical ...