By Nate Winkler There are few days in the year more important than ‘Game Day’ for athletes, if any.  Every month away from season is spent preparing, training, dieting, and dreaming of what will happen next season, when all the hard work culminates in dominating performances.  Making all that pain, practice and sacrifice worth it [...]

Team Juggernaut is coming to Chicago!! On June 8-9th, at Crossfit Chicago, Team Juggernaut’s Brandon Lilly, Eric Lilliebridge and Chad Wesley Smith are invading the windy city to help you reach your strength and training goals! Eric Lilliebridge, at only 23 years old, has taken the powerlifting world by storm! With a 2204 raw total [...]

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 [...]

There are great articles out there promising people major fat loss by making minor changes, but no real results ever happen. Why? No one is addressing the actual cause of fat gain/loss: poor hormone management. Adopting a training and nutritional program that works synergistically to reeducate your hormones will improve everything about your performance, physique, [...]

The most overlooked and misunderstood aspect of max effort lifting is nutrition. What you eat and when you eat it can impact your ability to express your strength more than any other variable. Subtle changes in your diet will allow you to pull, press, and push more than ever, and I’m gonna explain them. Many [...]

Team Juggernaut’s Chad Wesley Smith, Brandon Lilly, Brad Little and Ryan Brown, along with Mike Tuchscherer, Jim Laird and Corey Hayes sit down to discuss various training issues after training together at Derby City Crossfit in Louisville, KY. Check out part 1 of this 5 part series, as we discuss mobility and staying healthy through [...]

By Team Juggernaut Bands and Chains are among the most trendy tools in the modern training toolbox. They are also in my opinion, among the most misunderstood and misused. I could cite numerous YouTube videos that show coaches (including MAJOR D-1 coaches) having their athlete bench or squat with chains, where the chains are setup [...]

Make sure you LIKE Juggernaut on Facebook and keep your eyes peeled for our weekly live Q&As where you can get your training questions answered by some of the strongest athletes and smartest coaches in the World!! Q: How can I build up my back strength for loading heavy atlas stones? A: Kalle Beck- All [...]

Name:Greg Panora Age: 32 Height/Weight: 5’10, 256-258 off season, 242 competition Hometown: Stow, MA Current City: Portland, ME Years Training: 18 Years Competing: 13 PRs: 1060 geared squat, 820 geared bench, 820 geared deadlift. I recently did a push/pull and benched 500 raw and deadlifted 750 raw. Where you Train: Crossfit Casco Bay Day Job: [...]

Where are you getting it wrong? Webster’s defines explode as a verb; meaning to expand with force, to burst, as dynamite. In sports, being explosive is really just the quality of being able to generate great power over a short time frame. ‘Explosive’, is becoming one of those catch phrases that everyone is hearing and [...]

Get to know new Team Juggernaut member, Nathan Wilson of Derby City Crossfit in Louisville, KY… Name: Nathan Wilson        Age: 23 Height/Weight: 6’1/ 215 Hometown: Louisville, KY Current City: Louisville Years Training: 1.5 Years competing in Crossfit: just recently really started taking my training for crossfit seriously, so about 6 months. PRs [...]

By Ryan Brown I have always hated the articles on the internet that discuss what is a good exercise and what is a bad exercise. I remember something that the Legendary Maximillion Mormont said to me a couple of years ago regarding exercise selection and it has stuck with me and my thought process behind [...]

Get to know new Team Juggernaut member, Crossfit athlete/coach, JoEllyn McAtee Name:JoEllyn McAtee   Age: 26 Height/Weight: 5’7” /145 Hometown: Louisville, KY Current City: Louisville, KY Years Training: 3 yrs of CrossFit training Years Competing: 4 years as NCAA Division I Track athlete. Training for Life/CrossFit 3 yrs. PRs in relevant lifts/events: Finished 6th in [...]

The SuperTraining Gym (Sacramento) Meet of the Century was one of the most anticipated powerlifting meets of all time, in large part due to the presence of Team Juggernaut’s Brandon Lilly, Dan Green and Eric Lilliebridge. Check out these pictures and videos from the guys during their great performances at the meet… Brandon Lilly, Check [...]

By Chad Wesley Smith A few weeks ago I attended a Crossfit Powerlifting Seminar at Crossfit 714 in Orange, CA as a guest presenter, where I helped out my friends Mark Bell of Supertraining Gym and Jesse Burdick of Reactive Gym. Both Mark and Jesse are accomplished powerlifters in single and multi ply gear. I really enjoyed my time helping [...]

Each week on the Juggernaut Training Systems Facebook page, Chad Wesley Smith and other members of Team Juggernaut will answer your questions during a live Q&A. Like Juggernaut’s page and keep your eyes peeled for the weekly live Q&A, so you don’t miss an opportunity to get your questions answered by some of the strongest [...]

By Chad Wesley Smith Part 1-Maximal Effort Work I often get questions through email, Facebook or through JTSstrength.com that are something to the effect of, “Can I substitute closegrip reverse band presses with chains for military press?,” or “Do you think Close stance low foam box safety squat bar squats are a good accessory movement [...]

By Ryan Brown, Darkside Strength and Conditioning Here is Bailee, one of our CrossFitters and soon to be Olympic Lifting superstars, working on her Clean & Jerk. This is #132, about 92% of her 1rm. Bailee is plenty strong right now but has only been working on her olympic movements with me for about 2 [...]

Check out the best training advice ever received by Team Juggernaut and Juggernaut’s fans and readers on Facebook and Twitter Mick Manley-“It’s not where you start, it’s where you finish.”-Rick Hussey Mark Anderson-Eat Brad Little-Don’t over think things and always poop before heavy pulls. Ed Stedman-Be consistent Alan Kissick-Don’t listen to training advice Julian Muron-Stop [...]

Check Out Brandon’s Training Log Here Bench 135 x 12 335 x 5 425 x 2 515 x 1 575 x 1 PR 3 Bd Rep Out 335 x 20 x 3 Chest Supported Row 4 sets Tricep Band Pushdowns 100 reps Abs Really proud of my PR today. It has been a very long [...]