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The Top 8 of January
1. The Top 5 Deadlift Mistakes to Avoid Amir Fazeli is a rising force in powerlifting, closing in on a 700 pound ...
Ease Off the Throttle: Lessons from Pushing Too Hard
What you’re about to read comes from some hard lessons I’ve had to (re)learn this year. It’s not always easy or ...
The Sport Science of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
Introduction Jiu Jitsu, more particularly the more combative and competitive branch of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ), ...
Win More with Smart Sport Periodization
The term periodization gets thrown around pretty fast and loose these days. There seem to be a lot of different ...
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The Taxonomical Disorder of Recovery
Recovery is a fascinating subject, and like all the things that have a special charm, it is still surrounded today ...
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Overtraining or Undertraining? Plan From a New Perspective
Over the course of my weightlifting career, I have heard just about everything imaginable when it comes to ...
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Do You Have the Courage to be Great?
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m not one for ra-ra, motivation and inspiration; it’s just not my personality and ...
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Powerlifting
The Best 40 Articles from 2014
1. The Best Damn Squat Mobility Article, Period. The title says it all. The most-read article of the year, and one ...
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Fitness Choices and Tradeoffs
His form is TERRIBLE! Why won’t you say something? When I’m with my friends – especially when on vacation – the ...
Sports Training
Chad Wesley Smith Training with the JuggernautBJJ App
In the gym with Chad using the JuggernautBJJ App
Strength Training for Jiu Jitsu World Championships
In the gym with 3x Jiu Jitsu World Champion
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Sport Performance
The JuggernautBJJ App Has Arrived
Take your performance on the mats to the next level!
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Fitness
5 Min Mile & 500 Pound Deadlift Challenge | Pre-Test
Learn more about concurrent training for Strength & Endurance
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Training
Limited Equipment Training Template
Learn how to program your workouts using the equipment you have
Build Muscle
Designing Training for Hypertrophy
If building muscle is your goal, here is everything you need to know about program design
How Long Should You Rest Between Sets?
How long of rest should you take to maximize muscle growth?
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Limited Equipment Training Template
Learn how to program your workouts using the equipment you have
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Strongman
The JuggLife | Martins Licis | World’s Strongest Man
Former training partners are reunited in this week's JuggLife
Considerations for Strongman Training
Chad Wesley Smith discusses some important considerations for Strongman Training. Chad was the 2012 NAS National ...
#TBT Chad Wins Strongman Nationals
We head back to November 2012 where Chad won his Pro Card in Strongman through a dominant victory at NAS Strongman ...
Yearly Planning for Strongman
As a fairly young competitor and coach, I feel like my experiences are far beyond my years in the field. ...
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Nutrition for a Strongman Contest
It is notorious that those competing in strongman are a little, let’s say, ‘free’ with their nutrition. Most tend ...
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Powerlifting
The Essentials of Hybrid Training
The Hybrid Athlete, Alex Viada’s highly-anticipated debut book about combining strength and endurance ...
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Training
Training is for Building, Not Testing
If you are a competitive athlete, what is the purpose of training? To improve your competition result. Training is ...
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Iron Woman – Couple Strongman Domination for Maya Winters
The Lightning Fitness Couples Challenge is a highly anticipated couples competition (Strongman) on the East Coast. ...
Mentality
How To PR On The Platform
Set yourself up for the best performance where it counts the most, on the competition platform.
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Training for Worlds’ Challenges and Breakthroughs
TeamJTS shares their struggles headed to Worlds.
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What Does Making The World Team Mean To You?
Team Juggernaut shares their emotions about IPF Worlds
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Dealing with Competition Anxiety
Competition can be a stressful time, learn how some of the best in the World deal with it.
Recovery
Recovery Adaptive Strategies
Dr. James Hoffmann, author of Recovering from Training, breaks down some key concepts in regards to recovery and ...
The JuggLife | Dr. James Hoffmann: Recovery Adaptive Strategies
Dr. James Hoffmann of Renaissance Periodization joins us to discuss the process of recovering from and adapting to ...
Sleeping Positions: A Disucussion of Pros and Cons
As a physical therapist, it would seem that patients’ sleep patterns are not something often addressed. On the ...
Juggernaut Performance Summit-New York
Juggernaut is coming to New York on February 4th, 2017. The Performance Summit brings together experts in the 4 ...
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Training
Fitness Myths with Dr. Mike: Overtraining Doesn’t Exist
Is overtraining just a boogeyman that people have made up as an excuse to not train hard or is it real? In this ...
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Training
Fatigue Indicators and How To Use Them
We train so that we can get better. Bigger, faster, stronger, leaner, and maybe even all of those at different ...
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Nutrition
Managing Lifting and Life for the Young Athlete
Let’s get real for a second: WHAT PEOPLE SAY WHAT IT ACTUALLY MEANS “I’m too busy to go to the gym” Training is not ...
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How to Monitor Your Recovery
You’re working out like never before to prep for you next power lift/strongman/crossfit/whatever event. Your ...
Football
The JuggLife | All-Time NFL Combine Performances
The best of 40 yard dashes, vertical jumps and more
Sport Performance Pillars
All 5 Parts of Chad's in-depth series on the foundational components of Sport Performance training
The JuggLife | UCLA Football’s Frank Wintrich
We visit the incredible UCLA Football facility and talk with Director of Football Performance Frank Wintrich about ...
Consolidation of Stressors, Part 2: The Medium Term
In Part 1 of this series, we discussed what the concept of consolidation of stressors is and how it is applied to ...
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The Juggernaut Football Method
Football is a demanding sport, for both athletes and coaches. For an athlete to succeed, he needs to be strong, ...
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Training
Top 10 Juggernaut Articles of August
1. Obviously the best way to get your squat up is to squat more – but these are the best of the rest; these ...
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6 Questions with Ryan Russell – Auburn Strength Coach
What are the first things players to Auburn do as part of the program? The first thing our incoming athletes do is ...
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Training
Football Linemen and Shoulder Health: Q&A with Mike Guadango
I’d like to preface this article by saying this: I rarely speak in absolutes. Obviously no one situation, equation ...
Throwing
Training Day w/ Olympic Hopefuls
Chad spends the day with two of his throwers as they train for Tokyo 2020
The JuggLife | Don Babbitt
University of Georgia Throws Coach, Don Babbit, joins Chad to discuss Special Strength Development
The JuggLife | Reese Hoffa
Olympic Bronze Medalist Shot Putter Reese Hoffa is this week's guest.
The JuggLife | 2x Olympian and Stanford Track Coach Amin Nikfar
Amin Nikfar represented Iran in the Olympics in the Shot Put and has just taken the reigns as the Stanford Throws ...
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The JuggLife | Adam Nelson
Adam Nelson, 2004 Gold Medalist in the Shot Put, joins us on this week’s JuggLife. We discuss a variety of ...
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The JuggLife | Team USA Shot Putters
A trio of America’s best shot putters join the JuggLife including, Olympic Gold Medalist Ryan Crouser, ...
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#TBT Chad’s College Shot Put PR
Before starting Juggernaut, Chad Wesley Smith was a 2x NAIA Champion in the Shot Put. Today, we take a look back to ...
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The JuggLife-Jordan Clarke: Shot Putting Polar Bear
Max and Chad are joined by 4x NCAA Champion, 2015 World Championships Team member and 2016 Olympic Hopeful shot ...
Speed Training
Sport Performance Pillars
All 5 Parts of Chad's in-depth series on the foundational components of Sport Performance training
Common Speed Training Errors
With the NFL Combine/Pro Day season upon us we are exposed to more clips of high level athletes training on TV and ...
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7 Speed Training Mistakes That Keep Athletes Slow
With the click of a mouse, athletes have an arsenal of speed training videos drills and techniques to improve their ...
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6 Questions with Ryan Russell – Auburn Strength Coach
What are the first things players to Auburn do as part of the program? The first thing our incoming athletes do is ...
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Training
Applied Sprint Training
by Keith Enderlein Editors Note: We do not have any affiliation with this product but simply want to share it with ...
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5 Questions with Coach Bryan Fetzer
Bryan Fetzer is the Director of Track and Field at the University of Virginia. Fetzer has been the head coach at ...