The venerable one dishes out an intriguing prescription for adding intensity to standard hypertrophy programs.

A 61-year-old dude deadlifted 315-pounds 60 times in 30 minutes. Are ya' feeling a little weak right about now?

A heavy bar across your back and peanut butter sandwiches in your belly: it's time to build mass the Dan John way!

Four routines from Dan John that will keep your puke bucket filled to the brim.

Dan John is waging a personal vendetta against minutia; you know, the little stuff lifters obsess over when instead they should be concentrating on the big-time important things.

A 2-kilogram discuss traveled 140 feet through the air and landed in Dan John's skull. After that, he "rested" for five months. Now he has some interesting ideas about rest periods in general.

Weight training wisdom from Dan John, blended with cool techniques and routines that will make you want to rush off to the gym.

Most of you are too weak to put on muscle. Here's a simple 40-day program that will make you strong and buff.

For a fat burning hit, a massive conditioning bang, and some appreciable muscle, do complexes.

Dan's secret weight loss stack, a new five-toed rehab tool, and a novel, one-rep-at-a-time method for hypertrophy.

Using dead stop movements to blow past a sticking point; how ab work has nothing to do with building a six-pack; and how you should blow-torch the treadmill and burn fat in a way that works.

For someone who wants to lose fat, Dan can't imagine a more perfect week: Two days of locking down nutrition, two days of lifting, and a total of eight minutes getting the system to burn fat.

Dan John wants to know if you're making progress. It seems the answer should be simple, but is it? Fortunately, the big guy offers up 3 unorthodox ways to gauge your answer. (Wait until you read about the "pencil test".)

In this continuing series that tracks whether Testosterone authors walk the walk, Dan John details his ever-evolving training program. Stand by for lots of snatches, cleans, kettlebells, and even Bikram yoga!

Dan John's been dragging his calloused butt across Terra Firma for a relatively long time, but he only recently realized he'd been wasting a lot of time on assistance exercises and aerobics.

"Teachers, go into lockdown immediately. This is not a drill." That's what Dan John heard at his school a few weeks ago when a kid brought a gun to class, but none of his students were frightened; they were prepared.

We know what you're thinking — just add "pink" to the title above and you've got yourself one heckuva' porn title. But you're off the mark. This pillar is 9 feet, 4 inches long, weighs 38 pounds, and will kick your sorry butt.

Lots of the usual solid folksy wisdom from Dan John, but in addition, this article contained so many great training ideas that we dropped what we were doing and ran straight to the gym to try them. (Sorry Ma, we'll fix your dialysis machine tomorrow.)

Blood on the Barbell is our new series describing workouts to do when your woman left you, your momma' don't love you, and even your dog doesn't care much for you. This time, Dan John brings the hurt and the healin'.

More wisdom about life and lifting from Testosterone Nation's sage.

I'd strongly suggest that you take some time to look at a bunch of different training programs to see which ones "resonate" with you. When I read the workout of the Iranian Superheavy, something in my core says, "Yes, that sounds right." When I read about the 1000 crunches a fitness model does before her one hour of cardio, my brain looks for potato chips. Make sure the shoe fits...

Why do so many lifters follow programs that fail to fit any of their equipment needs, exercise issues, volume or intensity issues, or personality? Dan John calls it the "Cinderella's Stepsister Syndrome." In other words, the shoe don't fit! Here's how to find the right shoe for you. Hopefully, it doesn?t have a 6-inch clear plastic heel, you tramp, you.

Dan John is Testosterone's Yoda, wise as hell but with better skin and a heckuva' lot higher PR in the snatch than the original. However, our Yoda has had his share of Yodas to learn from. Read here as he shares his most valuable weight-lifting lessons.

Fat loss is an all-out war. Give it 28 days, only 28 days. Attack it with all you have. It is not a lifestyle choice... it's a battle. Lose fat, and then get back into moderation. There's another one for you: moderation. Revelation says it best: "You are lukewarm and I shall spit you out." Moderation is for sissies.

So, Mike sat in my front room after a six hour drive from Las Vegas to Salt Lake City and asked a simple question: "Dan, why do people ask you to coach them?"