The deadlift is one of seven most important for our natural human movement patterns. Learning how to conventional deadlift can improve your strength and muscle mass, decrease risk of injury from weakness or imbalance, and improve your general health. Today we’re going over how you can learn the set up and technique for the conventional deadlift!

The goal of warming up for deadlifts is to prime the muscles that will be working the most and the ones that will enable you to get into the position needed for your deadlift variation. These are some of the warmups I like to perform to get ready on deadlift days!

The Larsen press is a strength and muscle-building bench press variation used that removes leg drive and puts more emphasis on utilizing the chest, triceps, and shoulders. Here are the benefits of including this in your powerlifting or strength routine!

Shark pit (aka belt squats) are a great exercise to incorporate into your leg day or powerlifting routine for the ultimate strength & muscle gains. Coach Bryan shares his top three reasons why you should try belt squatting in your leg routine!

When it comes to our bench press in powerlifting, we have our standard power barbell that’s used in our competition-based movement, but we also have other alternative barbells that we can use to build strength! Today we’re discussing the difference between using something like an Ohio bar for our bench press vs. the Swiss bar (or also commonly called the football bar or multigrip bar).

Rows are an important exercise in powerlifting as an accessory to help in building on strength and maintaining balance in our exercise volume for joint health. Barbell rows and pendlay rows are some of the more common row variations you’ll see programmed for powerlifters. Is one better than the other in powerlifting? Let’s discuss the differences!

Warming up for bench is important in preparing ourselves for heavy lifting. When it comes to powerlifting, the bench press is performed differently than in bodybuilding or recreational lifting; it involves the full body, all the way down to the legs, to perform a heavy bench press. This is how to warm-up for bench press in powerlifting.

If you’ve been out of the gym since mid-March, you’re probably, like me, wondering, “what’s going to happen to my strength when I get back to the gym?”

While the data is minimal when it comes to relevant studies relating to detraining in these circumstances, I decided to take it upon myself to test my own strength in the name of science.