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The safest way to deadlift is with a neutral spine, right? Ask anyone with an ounce of sense who's spent time in the gym and they'll tell you that the incidence of lifters who injure themselves through rounded-back deadlifting grossly outnumber that of lifters who injure themselves with...

The most heated argument in strength and conditioning today is to crunch or not to crunch. It's bewildering that this seemingly harmless, short ROM exercise could create such a rift between so many smart strength and conditioning professionals, yet the great crunch debate rages on. At the...

For a long time I used a shortened range of motion when curling. I believed that it was important to keep the biceps under constant tension and so I avoided going all the way up. Then Paul Carter convinced me to try adding the last portion of the curl: the shoulder flexion. When the arm is fully...

GET YOKED: BUILD A THICK NECK Sure, building your big muscle groups will make you bigger overall. But it takes a long time to get there. By contrast, if you build a thick neck, it'll quickly change your whole look. The same is true for traps and forearms. These are the "power look" muscles. When...

Sooner or later, you're going to tweak your back, and there's nothing you'll ever experience, perhaps shy of limb dismemberment, that'll put a stop to your training as cruelly or effectively. Of course, if you've already had some back problems, you know what we're talking about. Either way, we...

GET YOKED: BUILD A THICK NECK Sure, building your big muscle groups will make you bigger overall. But it takes a long time to get there. By contrast, if you build a thick neck, it'll quickly change your whole look. The same is true for traps and forearms. These are the "power look" muscles. When...

The Alternating Conjugate Periodization Model http://www.elitefts.com/education/training/program-design/the-alternating-conjugate-periodization-model/ The famous adage “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail” applies to strength training as it does to just about any other endeavor. Arriving to...