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Strength training: lifting more, without the technique falling apart
Strength is the trainable part of lifting. This page collects what we publish on making the numbers move, and on keeping the lift worth repeating.
A strength block is a small number of lifts, progressed deliberately, over enough weeks for the progression to mean something. The decisions that matter are the load step, the rep target, and knowing when a week should take something back.
Read how overload is applied first — it is the mechanism everything else serves — then the technique material for the lifts you are running, then the periodisation material when a block stops moving.
Where to start
- 01
Understand overload
The one mechanism that makes a strength block work, and the ways it is normally broken.
- 02
Pick a progression method
Double progression, RIR and percentage work — what each is good at, and when it stops fitting.
- 03
Run a real block
Your coach sets the lifts, the loads and the week-to-week progression around your level and equipment.
What this looks like in the app
Every strength-training article
- Ozempic, Wegovy and Training: Strength and Protein While You Lose Weight12 min read
- Training But Not Seeing Results? Why You're Not Getting Stronger (And What to Change)9 min read
- Creatine Dosage by Sport: Minimum, Maximum, Timing and What It Does to the Scale10 min read
- The HYROX Physique: Where the Hybrid Look Comes From, and How to Train For It10 min read
- A Four-Week Return-to-Training Plan for Low Back Pain8 min read
- Pull-Up Grips: Which Grip for Which Muscle, and When to Use It8 min read
- High Bar vs Low Bar Squat: Which Should You Do?9 min read
- Weight-Lifting Belts: When to Wear One, How to Use It, and How to Choose8 min read
- Olympic Weightlifting for Beginners: The Snatch and Clean & Jerk10 min read
- Lifetime PRs: Why Your All-Time Bests Matter More Than Today's Workout11 min read
- Every progression method explained: when to use each, and who it fits13 min read
- Why structured periodization beats random workouts6 min read
- Double progression vs RIR: how your coach decides6 min read
Training guides that apply here
- Progressive OverloadProgressive overload is the principle that training has to get gradually harder to keep driving adaptation — but that means far more than adding weight every week. Here is how to progress in the gym and in endurance sport.
- How Training Plans WorkUnderstand how individual training sessions, training weeks, multi-week blocks and long-term training phases fit together — microcycles, mesocycles, macrocycles and how a structured 12-week plan is built.
Calculators
- 1 Rep Max CalculatorEstimate your one-rep max from a weight you lifted for reps, get a percentage-based training-load table, and see where your lift sits from Beginner to Elite.
- Plate + Wilks CalculatorLoad any barbell without the mental math — see the plates per side, the closest weight you can actually make, and your Wilks relative-strength score.