May 14, 2026
The staged spectacle of the ring and the curated edits of prime time are stripped away to reveal a raw physical reality that cannot be faked. Eric “Bull” Bugenhagen, Jesse “Steel” Godderz, and Michael “Fang” Wardlow endured a month of sensory deprivation and high-stakes violence to resurrect a...
May 7, 2026
Taming your “dumb strength” is the only way to survive when 900 pounds is trying to crush your spine into the floor.
Jordan Buchla spent a decade as an emergency room trauma nurse while simultaneously becoming the #2 all-time strongest female squatter on the planet. From intubating patients during a pandemic to...
May 5, 2026
One heavy squat at 400 pounds was all Kalil Sherrod needed to know the poison hadn’t won.
Seven weeks before this recording, Kalil walked into elitefts HQ to hit his first major milestone since a brutal cancer diagnosis. That moment bridged the gap between his life as an elite performance coach and his reality as a...
Apr 27, 2026
You are likely sacrificing long-term health for short-term gains because you’re following a "get bigger" blueprint designed for a body you don’t actually want. After 21 years in the trenches—from wrestling on the WWE developmental circuit to coaching at the legendary MI40 gym—Drew Donaldson realized that the...