DAYNE TRAIN

Ladders let you do a lot of quality work without grinding every set. Here's how StrongFirst uses them, and how I plan practice around them.

The snatch puts the swing, the clean, and the get-up together in one lift. Here's how I teach it and when I tell people to wait.

Getting strong is about learning to make tension and learning to let it go. Here's how I use StrongFirst's tension principles and "fast & loose" drills.

A strong press starts long before the bell moves: in the rack, on the negative, and in your free hand. Here's how I coach it.

A good kettlebell clean lands softly in the rack, with no bang on the forearm. Here's how I teach the grip, the arc, and the rack.

StrongFirst recommends get-up proficiency for all overhead lifts. Here's how I teach the get-up, step by step, starting with a shoe on your fist.

In the StrongFirst system, breathing isn't an afterthought. It's a tested standard. Here's how I breathe for each lift.

The goblet squat teaches the squat pattern, opens the hips, and builds leg strength. Here's how I coach it, rep by rep.

Before anyone swings a kettlebell with me, they deadlift it. Here's the setup, the lockout, and the mistakes I look for.

Before I add weight or reps, I check three things on every hardstyle swing: the start, the finish, and the timing between them.