Barbell Row Benefits & Points of Performance Having a strong back translates to a ton of functional movements, but it generally means you can pick heavy things up off the floor — an extremely useful skill. There are two main ways to do this: a deadlift or a row....
Why You Should Try the Clean Grip Snatch Snatches are hard enough as is — combining dynamic, explosive strength, speed, and timing with a mobility challenge for every major joint in your body. It can take years for an average athlete to get decently confident with...
The Perfect Air Squat – Great Squat Mechanics for Life One of the first movements a quality coach assesses for a new personal training client is the most basic movement in all of human physiology: the air squat. Get Good Squat Mechanics for Life The squat is a...
Thrusters 101 an unbeatable Full-Body Exercise Arguably the most grueling, efficient, functional full-body movement and the biggest middle finger to gravity is the thruster. Like burpees, thrusters are a very polarizing exercise—you either love them, hate them, love...
Your Guide to a Heavy Power Clean It’s the simplest variation of the clean and jerk. It’s also arguably the easiest place to start when dipping your toes into the Olympic weightlifting pool: the power clean. Get Faster & Stronger Under the Bar Power cleans are...
Deficit Deadlift Benefits & Points of Performance From a mechanical standpoint, how can you make picking something up off the floor more challenging? An obvious answer is to increase the load—a less obvious answer is to make the floor farther away. Enter: the...
