The Turkish get-up (or TGU) may very well be the consummate functional, total-body exercise. After all, it leaves roughly ...

A sad fact of life is that very few lifters have a sense of history.  What I mean by this is that many people who train have little or no knowledge of ...

April 1, 2024 is the 40th anniversary of the ...

Anyone who is reading this is interested in strength.  The building, testing, demonstration of strength.  In all its forms, categories, sub-categories.  ...

"I get asked about this a lot: what do I do when I get stuck? Go to an intermediate program?  I’d rather ask this ...

Humans are creatures of habit. We tend to find a routine that works and stick with it. That’s fine for your daily coffee order, but when it comes to ...

Four years ago, on April 6, 2019, the Iron Game lost one of its finest people, with the passing of Dr. Ken Leistner.  Quite often, when we lose someone ...

World’s Okayest Starting Strength Coach Pete Troupos goes over a common error with bar placement and how to address it. Credit : Source Post

     I was going to title this article “Deadlift Variations,” because it’s basically about different ways to provide variety to doing deadlifts.  However, ...

Meat by Jim Steel | March 26, 2024 ...

By the Spring of 1981, Strength and Health magazine had seen its best days ( the magazine would fold five years later) but it was still capable of ...

Once a tiny fraction of the training population, post-novice trainees now comprise a rapidly expanding section of the ...