Your Core Needs More Stability To Display It's Strength If you are inherently frail and weak, you truly have no business implementing direct dynamic core work into your programming with the goal of eliciting a training effect. Dynamic core work like crushes, sit-ups and side bends using loads and intensity have minimal [...]
Put An End To Shoulder Pain Once & For All If you’re reading this then you are probably one of 45-million Americans who regularly engage in some type of resistance training. If you’ve been resistance training for any length of time there’s a good chance that you may have been or are [...]
There's No Such Thing As "Perfect" Spinal Neutral Being unable to train the deadlift and squat, heavy or frequently kills progress. With nothing interrupting gains in the big lifts, like low back pain. Because back pain rarely strikes once, it often comes knocking again and again. Killing progress throughout the years, unless [...]
Is Barbell Deadlifting Inherently Dangerous? I’ll be the first to say that “absolutes” are not a wise idea in the world of fitness or strength and conditioning. That being known, if I had to choose one exercise that is worthy to be considered the foundation for every other exercise it would be [...]
Struggling To Stay Healthy While Progressing Your Squats & Deadlifts? The squat and the "deadlift" AKA hip hinge patterns are the cornerstone of foundational and fundamental lower body movement. They have the ability to develop resilient strength, enhance performance and help prevent chronic and traumatic injuries from occurring. As powerful as these two movements are, [...]
Feeling Band Pull Aparts In Your Traps? You're Doing Them Wrong If you want to build strong and healthy shoulders, the band pull apart needs to be a staple movement in your dynamic warm up preparation, period. Though this pain-free shoulder movement (along with it's sibling the banded face pull) is responsible [...]
The Trap Bar Is More Than Just A Tool For Deadlifting Chances are you've used the trap bar to deadlift, but it would be foolish to think that this versatile piece of equipment's use is just limited to lifting heavy off the floor. Due to it's unique shape, size and handle placement, the [...]
The Power of Concentric-Only Training One of the most vital requirements of training is that an exercise or program must give more than it takes. This is one of the most surefire ways to prolong your time in the iron game. But what happens when an exercise no longer gives you what [...]
The Best Squat You Aren't Doing: The Goblet Squat If you're struggling with the barbell squat, chances are you never earned the right to throw the bar on your back and squat with it. Too many people are quickly jumping into barbell squat variations and neglecting one of the most powerful types [...]
The Theoretical Advantages of High vs. Low Bar Squats The myth of dogmatically squatting high bar or low bar based on solely on your goals or training type needs to be debunked. Long term success for both performance and resilience to injury is found in the customization of movement patterns, NOT based on theoretical wants, but [...]
