First off, I want to make the disclaimer that my “reflections on the CrossFit Open” are as a coach and not as an athlete. I didn’t even do the workouts. I didn’t train for it and know damn good and well that I couldn’t have competed with the people that I would have expected myself [...]

Eileen Marcinkewicz is quickly becoming a well known name in the fitness industry. Eileen writes for Muscular Development (Latino) and is the newest member of the Optimum Nutrition Team. Besides being a top level NPC Figure competitor, Eileen also works full time, in addition to being a loving mom to her 2.5 year old son. [...]

Think of  improving your performance as a pie chart, comprised of 40% Training, 40% Nutrition and 20% Recovery. Juggernaut strives to provide you with the highest quality products and training science to help you reach your goals. The Juggernaut ‘Performance Training Manual’ provides you with Juggernaut’s most comprehensive articles to allow you to increase the [...]

By Chad Wesley Smith With my 3rd place finish at the Europa Platinum Plus Strongman show in Connecticut a few weeks ago, I failed to earn my pro card and am forced to change my training plans a bit for the rest of the year. It was very clear the things that held me back [...]

By Chad Wesley Smith In the past few weeks as Olympic Trials have been conducted, I have seen a lot of attention being given to the Strongman training done by one of the US’s top swimmers. Check it out below… The Video Has Been Removed for legal reasons but here is a summary. A World [...]

By Chad Wesley Smith   This past weekend I traveled to Hartford, Connecticut to compete in my 3rd ever strongman contest, the Europa Platinum Plus, where the winner would earn their American Strongman pro card. I felt good about my training cycle and knew that with a solid performance I would be in contention for [...]

By Chad Wesley Smith Here at Juggernaut I have the awesome opportunity to work with some of the nation’s best high school football talent, many of which play for some of the state and country’s top teams. Recently I began working with one of the Class of 2013’s top offensive line prospects, unfortunately he is [...]

This is the final part of the interviews with Naturopathic physician Dr. Torrey Gorla. In the previous interviews we introduced many of the misconceptions with what is considered healthy in Western culture and what needs to be changed. In this article we will conclude our interview with Dr. Gorla and take it one step further, how to [...]

By Chad Wesley Smith Doing an athlete of the month award is something that I’ve been meaning to do for several months now and just haven’t taken the time to do so. Lately, our athlete’s performances have been so overwhelming that they must be recognized for the world to know. At Juggernaut we are all [...]

An Expert In Mass Gain At Juggernaut, I have the great opportunity to work with athletes from junior high through the pros and one of the most common goals shared by my younger athletes is, I need to gain weight. I consider myself to be an expert mass gainer, at the age of 14, a [...]

The power clean and other Olympic lifts are a staple in strength and conditioning programs for many sports from high school to the pros. Many Westside (Darkside, conjugate, whatever you want to call it) influenced coaches despise it. I’m not one of those. The Olympic lifts are good exercises. They help build explosive power, but you [...]