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Learn the low bar back squat to build mobility and strength through a full range of motion, while keeping your knees healthy and staying safe.

Knee pain when squatting is one of the most common complaints in barbell training. In this video and accompanying article learn what the common causes of knee pain are and how to address knee pain in your training.

An all-or-nothing approach can paralyze those who lack the proper equipment or aren’t yet ready to start with something as challenging as a full barbell training program. Here we talk about the principles of getting started that apply to everyone.

Bed rest and sedentariness are like microgravity and should be avoided as much as possible. Instead, create your own gravity, and slowly increase it for as long as you possibly can.

If you train at the same intensity and volume over and over again, using the same exercises, then you will adapt to that level of stress but not more. Your body has grown used to the stress like a long-term and not-well-liked houseguest.

When we learn new things, we also have the opportunity to build important structures in our brains that lead to long-term benefits. Like building muscle from lifting weights, these benefits are independent of whether you get good at the thing you are learning.

There are some things to consider when you are thinking about an unplanned PR in the middle of a training cycle. We will look at three different types of PR attempts: The Mock Meet, the Single-Lift PR, and an AMRAP Strength Test.

There is no evidence that sports, compressive forces on bones, or that growth plate fractures represent a major issue for normal growth in children.

Raising issues of health behaviors for "lesser dragons," diseases that can be controlled or eliminated by our individual behaviors. This article talks about these lesser dragons and connects the behaviors necessary to fight them to things we learn through strength training.

Knee pain while squatting is a common complaint. Without more information, the existence of knee pain will not signal an “all-stop” to the strength coach. We take the black hole approach, creating observations and experiments that try to stay training.

The four-day split organizes your programming into two upper-body days and two lower-body days every week. With a four-day split, you can give equal consideration to your press and bench press, but this allows you to manipulate important variables, utilize supplemental lifts....

Stress-recovery-adaptation is a predictable process of survivability. One that we have learned to hijack in order to direct physical change. While the overarching process is fairly predictable, we are still figuring out exactly why certain types of stress lead to specific . . .

Two steps forward, one step back (TSFOSB), as a programming outline, focuses on longer-term progress while planning for, or anticipating, interruptions. I hold out hope for every lifter, but most low-priority lifters on a TSFOSB program don’t stick with it. Their limitations ...

Minor disruptions to homeostasis occur every day without your changing locale or being injured. This cycle of disrupting homeostasis and restoring it is how our bodies learn, grow, and adapt to our environments. It is by this constant, dynamic balancing act that humans have....

How strength training fits in with sports training.

Like muscles, you can train your brain to evaluate your own lifts. You can actually learn to see differently. Artists train themselves to see the world as shapes, light, and shadow because seeing the elements of a scene allows them to draw it more clearly. Similarly, you can adap

Form is as much a part of your program as the sets and reps you do every day...

Safety and technique to help you bench press.

Increase your bench press without a bench. This lift will help you beat the sticking points of the bench press.

Matt and Niki discuss the problem of losing tightness at the bottom of the bench press and how to fix it.

Use your legs to lift more weight, stay tighter, and improve your bench press.

Maximize your setup by fixing your bench press arch, adding stability and power to this chest-building exercise.

Is the bench press useful for more than just building a muscular chest? Learn how this lift fits into a full-body program and what makes it indispensable to your training regimen.

Often overlooked the overhead press is one of the best full-body lifts. Learn how this movement helps secure your shoulders while building functional strength.

Why should you squat? This movement trains the coordinated use of more muscle mass than any other. It is THE most functional lift at your disposal.

Before Barbells is Barbell Logic's professional coaching service designed for beginners with little or no experience lifting weight, those with no access to ...

Different bench press grips will lead to different results. Try these tips for improving your bench technique and strength.

Complete discussion of the muscles used in the deadlift. Learn why deadlifts built muscular physiques.