Adding the single-leg deadlift into your training will improve your balance and help you hit personal records in your pistol, get-up, and barbell deadlift.| StrongFirst
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the gold standard in kettlebell education—and the #1 certification for strength and conditioning professionals. Two decades ago, the first kettlebell cert developed by Pavel Tsatsouline did a lot more than put the Russian kettlebell on the world map. It shook up the complacent trainer education industry. Instead of spewing sciency […]| StrongFirst
Over half a century ago, a group of high-level martial artists published a semi-fictional book Secret Fighting Arts of the World under a pen name John F. Gilbey. One of the stories in it perfectly illustrates the StrongFirst ideal. It is a star on the horizon. You will never reach it, but chasing it will […]| StrongFirst
The three events are a strict military press, a strict tactical pullup, and a pistol. Men lift a 48kg kettlebell to become Beast Tamers. Women earn their Iron Maiden title with a 24kg kettlebell. Many strong people are able to complete one of the events. Some can do two. But the ability to do all […]| StrongFirst