Start Position: Final Engagement
Tighten Back:The last step before initiating the weight from the floor is to create as much pressure through your entire body as you can. The…
Start Position: Head and Eyes
It’s now time to talk about an area of your body that has a tremendous, perhaps the MOST, influence on directing your body as a…
Start Position: Knees, Arms, Slack, and Shoulders
Flare Knees to Arms:For this, I’ll say “ideally.” This means that from the previously recommended stance, one may not have the ability to flare the…
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Start Position: The Checklist, Stance, Grip, and Bar Placement
We are now ready to dive into all of the other technical points to help optimize lifting performance. The complete start position checklist (which includes…
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3 Essential Steps to Your World Class Start Position: Part 2
Up to this point we’ve considered 3 essential steps you can take when getting into your start position that will set the tone for your…
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The Basics of a World Class Bar Path: Part 2
We now know that there are 4 Types of bar paths expressed on the international level, and contrary to what would seem most likely and…
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The Basics of a World Class Bar Path: Part 1
Let’s recall the 3 steps you can take to create what we consider the pillars of the most fundamental and widely used start position on…
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3 Essential Steps to Your World Class Start Position
Previously we established that we’ll label technique simply as either “efficient” or “inefficient.” This is opposed to other adjectives that are singling out individuals with…
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Establishing a Language
Are we really not talking about the squat anymore? Well, through my love for the squat I’ve found a way to bring it back up…
Let’s Talk Technique!
When you think of the word or concept of “technique”, what comes to mind? Here are a few definitions to help prime for the discussion…
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