Just as I recommend you individualize your mobility drills, you should customize the squat variations in the warm-up sequence. Before we direct you towards finding…
Continue reading → Sculpting Your Squat – Your Squat Sequence: Direction & Quality
Your Squat Sequence will be a squat progression combined with mobility drills that you’ll use as a general warm up before each of your workouts,…
Continue reading → Sculpting Your Squat – Assign: Your Squat Sequence
Now it is time to make some changes. Change is HARD, there is no way around that. BUT, if we keep adjustments to our routine…
Continue reading → Sculpting Your Squat – Assign: Ground Zero
With the bottom position goals defined (mobility, comfort, and strength), we will be using three revolving steps to help achieve them: Assess, Assign, and Repeat.…
Continue reading → Sculpting Your Squat – Assess: Bottom Position Mobility
To work towards perfecting your squat as a whole, let’s first zero in on one specific spot within: the bottom position - that is, the…
I think you know by now I could go on and on about appropriate squat depth, but at some point we’ve got to come back…
Continue reading → Squatting Like An Olympic Lifter – “Go!” Part 4: The Ascent
Squatting Like An Olympic Lifter: Go! Part 3 – Defining Depth “How low do I really need to go in my squat?” This question is…
Continue reading → Squatting Like An Olympic Lifter – “Go!” Part 3: Defining Depth
Squatting Like An Olympic Lifter: “GO!” Part 2 – The Descent Right after that initial break of the hips, knees, and ankles, comes the largest…
Continue reading → Squatting Like An Olympic Lifter – “GO!” Part 2: The Descent
When people ask me what the best way to initiate a squat is, I love telling them, “I don’t care.” Obviously this is not true,…
Continue reading → Squatting Like An Olympic Lifter – “GO!” Part 1: Initiation
Now that you better understand the necessity and benefit of working toward the best foot position you can for optimal carry over into the snatch…
Continue reading → Squatting Like An Olympic Lifter – “Get Set”
