If you missed it, in Part 1 we talked all about why your lower back might hurt from doing overhead press. So how do we fix it? 1) Check to see if you’ve got adequate thoracic spine and shoulder
Continue readingIf you guys have been following this site for any length of time you know that I’m a huge fan of cleaning up your technique on all of your lifts. It will do just about everything from making you
Continue readingHey let’s face it, when the weights get heavy, the form gets sloppy. We try our best to avoid it, but why does this happen? I feel that most people know that mobility can limit our technique, especially
Continue readingThe largest criticism I hear about crossfit is about how dangerous it is and how many people get hurt doing it, blah, blah, blah. Maybe we should all just hide in a closet and pray for muscles and
Continue readingUpdated November 2017: Pretty much everyone calls “butt” tuck” butt wink now. To start, I wanted to say that I plugged the words “butt tuck” into google to get some good
Continue readingWe’ve all seen it. It starts as a friendly attempt at picking up a heavy weight. It ends in terror, back pain and vertebral discs being shot all over the room. You know what I’m talking
Continue readingOne time at a christmas party I tried pressing a fire hydrant over my head and failed miserably several times. Had I known then what I know now I might have succeeded (Or not, I doubt the christmas drinks
Continue readingIf you’re like me you have a tough time getting deep in your squats and then coming back out of the hole with some power. Here’s a great exercise to work on to help with that. They’re
Continue readingAs gym rats we can get lost in getting a certain amount of sets or reps accomplished at x or y weight. We want to follow a given program for best results. What we can lose in that process is working
Continue readingI really like Coach Burgener. If you haven’t heard of Coach Mike Burgener, he’s the Senior International Weightlifting Coach for the U.S. Somewhere along the way he got involved with the
Continue readingThe Famous Coach Dan John Packing some Shoulders If you’ve been hanging around strengthcoach.com or listening to some of the top level strength coaches speak, you’ve probably heard the term
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