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Strength Aerobics
By Pavel Tsatsouline, Chairman Alexey Senart, SFG Team Leader “Conditioning” is a very vague term—and it is for the better, given the scientists’ lack of understanding of endurance, its different...
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How Heavy Should I Go in a Turkish Get-up?
By Delaine Ross, Senior SFG Tommy Blom, Senior SFG Should Your Get-Ups Be Light or Heavy? Here’s the thing. We TEACH get-ups very light. That’s because students are moving around for the very first...
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The Truth Shall Set You Free
By Al Ciampa, SFG I’ve got a few articles brewing right now, but I woke up in the middle of the night with this idea burning in my brain so, I put the “pen” to it. I wrote an article a while back...
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SFG Level II Prep Story
By Abby Keyes, SFG II The Level II SFG As expected, StrongFirst blew me away with an incredible weekend, at the Level II SFG. We are lucky to be able to learn from the phenomenal lineup of...
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The Long View
By Pavel Tsatsouline, Chairman The Notre Dame cathedral in Paris is a remarkable work of faith, art, and engineering. Enter it, and you experience an out-of-this-world feeling of being lifted up to...
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Strength Training for High School Volleyball
By Kash Morrow I have had the opportunity to strength train my two daughters for the last few years. Savannah is 16 years old, 5’10”, a junior in High School and a volleyball athlete. Madison is 14...
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Training Kettlebells, Music and Surgery: Same But Different?
By Dr. B Ramana, SFG A young man came up to me at the airport and asked: “Aren’t you Dr. Ramana? I’m sure you have forgotten but you operated on me, as well as on my wife, and we are both alive!”...
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Thank You, Veterans
By Eric Frohardt, CEO I would like to quickly thank all the brave men and women who have or are currently serving in our armed forces for their service and sacrifice. As a Veteran, I know what it...
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The Cost of Adaptation
By Pavel Tsatsouline, Chairman Today I will revisit some of my writings from fifteen years ago and then expand on the topic of health and performance. According to Prof. Bayevsky, at any given moment,...
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3 + 6 = Excellence
By David A. Clancy, SFG, CSCS Three days, six exercises. Simple. That is what the StrongFirst SFG certification is. Sure, there are tests, both physical and written. There is downtime for...
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Heads Up!
By Pavel Tsatsouline, Chairman A few years ago, a strange idea emerged from the clinical world: the insect head. White coats started telling lifters to lock their heads onto their torsos during...
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Kettlebells and Powerlifting: A Match Made in Heaven?
By ‘The King of The Deadlift’ Andy Bolton Kettlebells are a waste of time! Or so I thought, until I became friends with Pavel. Like many Powerlifters, I dismissed kettlebells outright, because…...
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Where Do You Go After Simple?
By Al Ciampa, SFG Over a year has passed, and you’ve reached the “simple” goal of Simple & Sinister. You are a man or woman, who did not just survive <16min of swings and get-ups with your...
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What the Hell?!
By Eric Frohardt, CEO WTHE I remember it very clearly. Somewhere in central Iraq, during my first ‘OP’ in country, I stopped in my tracks. “What the hell?” I had read about this phenomenon many times...
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The Pause Before a Press
By Taikei Matsushita, SFG II I attended the SFG Level II in Budapest last year for re-certification. As you know, the Level II has a military press requirement (for men, 1/2 bodyweight). As my...
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Life, Big or Small
By Pavel Tsatsouline, Chairman People who live big have passion. Those who live small subsist on emotion. A newspaper article promoting a new ‘Star Wars’ film caught my eye. “Though less than 90...
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Balance…With Priorities
By Eric Frohardt, CEO Often, we get too focused on ‘one thing.’ In my case, it’s usually work. This approach works for a while, but if we don’t balance out the ‘one thing’, all the ‘other things’...
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An NFL Strength Coach’s Kettlebell Journey
By Jeff Fish As we travel on our career paths, we will inevitably encounter events that can alter our course and lead us into direction we may never have seen coming. This evolution of a belief...
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From Simple to Sinister
By Pavel Tsatsouline, Chairman A couple of weeks ago Al Ciampa, SFG wrote an excellent blog entitled Where Do You Go After Simple. In it he outlined a “serious endurance” swing protocol. I...
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The Raider Project
By Mike Connelly, SFG II Part 1 The Marine Corps is the most feared and respected fighting force on the planet. The storied history of the Corps is a seemingly endless report of instances of...
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