A guide to strength training with or without barbells: The barbell is the best equipment option for strength training. If you don’t have one or don’t want to use a barbell, alternative equipment to help you get started.

Do you need to do sport specific strength exercises to improve your reaction time and sports performance? There is a common misconception that strength training needs to be extremely sport-specific to the athlete’s sport. However, this cannot be farther from the truth!

In this episode of the PRS Podcast, Clinical Coaches Drs. Rori Alter, PT and Alyssa Haveson, PT connect with PRS remote rehab coaching client, Dr. Matthew DiPaola, MD, orthopedic surgeon, who has utilized barbell training as his own form of rehabilitation and physical therapy after having two hip surgeries on the same side.

Should you do neck strengthening exercises? Barbell strength trainees often wonder if they should be incorporating more than just barbell training into their programs. Usually these questions boil down to whether or not small isolation exercises have any added benefit or not.

The adductor group and groin region are commonly injured in barbell training and powerlifting and it could be related to shoulder tightness on the opposite side. This phenomenon is the opposite shoulder and adductor relationship.

Should powerlifters have FAI or hip labral repair surgery? Dr. Eric Helms, powerlifter, and coach with 3DMJ shares his battle with hip pain while squatting, lack of progress, the decision to have bilateral hip surgery, and surpassing his best strength after surgery.

Barbell Training on Vacation: In almost all instances we don’t recommend skipping the gym altogether. We usually recommend modifying the program and adapting to what equipment, or lack of equipment you have.

While hip pain from deadlift isn’t as common as it is with squatting, Knowing how to modify the conventional or sumo deadlift for hip pain of various types is important so you can continue to train for strength and performance despite issues you have with your hips.

Nonsurgical management of FAI & Labral Tears In Powerlifting: Physical Therapist & Elite Powerlifter, Dr. Rori Alter shares her story managing Femoroacetabular Impingement, hip labral tears, and a hip fracture and continuing to be successful in her powerlifting career.

Garage Gyms: These three things can have the largest impact on your body, barbell equipment, and overall desire, willingness and ability to train consistently.

Femoroacetabular impingement syndrome, hip osteoarthritis, and general hip pain are common reasons people stop squatting heavy. Knowing how to modify the barbell squat for hip pain of various types is important so you can continue to train for strength and performance despite issues you have with your hips.

Femoroacetabular Impingement & Barbell Training - is surgery the only option? It's possible to find support and work through your symptoms to help reshape the narrative around pain, injury, and barbell training.

Barbell strength training for youth athletes and adaptive athletes it’s not only possible, but extremely important for sports performance and injury prevention. However, there is a common belief that it’s dangerous for youth and adaptive athletes to do resistance training and lift heavy barbells.

The hip is one of the most common areas in the body that people experience pain with barbell training and the position of your back and legs can either enhance or reduce your symptoms.

Better understanding the functional anatomy of the hip, barbell training technique, and how to optimize your movement & your training program, allows you to address symptoms of hip pain while continuing to barbell train.

Signs you’re breathing wrong when you bench: People commonly breathe incorrectly when bench pressing and it can affect their pelvic floor. The proper way to breathe when you bench press is to perform the Valsalva Maneuver.

If you’re following a strength training or powerlifting program utilizing progressive overload, you’ll eventually need a lifting belt. When worn and used properly and combined with the Valsalva Maneuver, a lifting belt is a positive addition to your strength training program.

How should you breathe while lifting? You should perform the Valsalva Maneuver when you resistance train with barbells or any other kind of resistance training. However, people believe the Valsalva Maneuver is dangerous or they perform it wrong.

Are you breathing correctly while bench pressing?  The proper way to breathe when you bench press is to perform the Valsalva Maneuver. Breathing correctly while benching is important for injury prevention and optimal strength.

As one of the most common medical concerns, back pain will arise whether or not you squat. Knowing how to modify the barbell back squat for back pain of various types is important because you’ll be faced with it at some point.