Training
How to Perform the Turkish Get Up: 7 EASY STEPS
The Turkish Get Up is a great functional movement when done correctly. It can be useful for creating shoulder stability, hip mobility, strength throughout the trunk, while also providing a significant proprioceptive demand. Unfortunately, I often see the TGU executed in a manner that puts the trainee at risk for injury or just plain poorly.…
Read MoreDon’t Balance, Stabilize!
The words balance and stability are freely thrown around in the training industry. Yet, they have two very different meanings and produce very different results. One of these qualities trains people to look like sloppy cooked spaghetti during their workouts. The other teaches individuals how to use their bodies in an athletic, strong, decisive manner.…
Read MoreWarming Up: Why It’s Important & How To Do It
Do you want to prevent injuries? Perform better? Warm up! Benefits: The appropriate warm up enables individuals to utilize their full functional potential. This means peak work capacity, increased coordination/neuromuscular control, and numerous other benefits… Allows muscles to handle large loads without causing injury Tissue warming increases mobility and allows muscles to contract harder and…
Read MoreWant Healthy Knees? How’s Your Butt Performing?
My butt? Performing? That’s right… how’s your glute activation, your glute strength-how well is your butt performing for YOU? Ever see your knees doing any of this? Hopefully not too much. While the knee is capable of some rotation inward and outward, it’s primarily designed to act as a hinge. Whether you lead an active…
Read MoreStrongman and Odd Object Training
Ever shake someone’s hand and it’s obvious how strong they are? Usually it’s a callused, rugged hand-unaware it’s squeezing every drop of blood out of yours. And those hands often belong to an individual making a living as a mechanic, metalworker, or from another type of manual labor. Some of the strongest people I’ve ever…
Read MoreCrawling, Spinal Stability, and Core Strength
What does “CORE STRENGTH” really mean? To me, CORE STRENGTH means SPINAL STABILITY. Here’s Elisha Celeste putting on a brilliant display of this quality. Our spine has 3 sections: the cervical vertebrae (think neck), thoracic (think upper back), and lumbar (low back). CORE STRENGTH is important because it means we’ve strengthened the tissues around the…
Read MoreOvercoming Plateaus: The Lightened Method
The LIGHTENED METHOD is one of many ways to overcome barriers. Has one of your lifts hit a plateau? Maybe the demands you’re placing on your system aren’t great enough. The LIGHTENED METHOD enables a lifter to increase demand, alter acceleration rates, and most importantly: crush that plateau! Strength comes through adaptation. Adaptation comes from…
Read MoreTraining Logs: Log Your PR’s!
LOG YOUR PR’S! How do you know you’re improving if you don’t know where you’ve been? Every Personal Record-maximal or not-that’s important to you or your goal(s) should get logged. My log includes data like PR’s, dates, loads, volume, goals, and more. I always pay extra attention to the goal-specific indicators in each training session-both…
Read MoreTraining: Trust the Process
Training is an ongoing process that never ends, it just evolves. The optimal training program can yield new levels of performance or nothing at all. Embrace the journey to surpass your goals. We all want to know how we’re progressing. Common general progress questions that come up include: Am I the only one that experiences…
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