Do you find lunges difficult to perform? You heard that they can be beneficial—maybe for fat loss, maybe for muscle gain—but you struggle with them. They feel wobbly. Or just challenging. Well, you’re not alone in feeling that way. Lunges are a challenging movement indeed—learning them doesn’t need to be challenging though. So, what’s the...Read More

When you think of doing an exercise for your core, what exercise comes to mind first? Here is my guess: you pictured laying on your back, knees bent and hands behind your head while pulling your chests towards your knees. Am I right? You pictured a sit up? This is normal. A common thought is,...Read More

Regardless of whether you’ve squatted with a barbell thousands of times, or haven’t done it a single time, this blog will give you some helpful tips for squatting with a barbell. Squatting with a barbell may seem intimidating to learn if you have no experience, but it doesn’t have to be. While there are things...Read More

The deadlift is sometimes claimed to be one of the simpler barbell lifts, because It’s just “picking something up off the ground.” But, in a way, this does a disservice to the complexity and skill component of the lift. One of the biggest mistakes people make when learning to deadlift with a barbell is… learning...Read More

The bench press is one of the most popular exercises around. It’s hard to walk into a commercial gym without being asked the famous question, “How much ya bench?” This popularity isn’t without good reason because, assuming it’s a good fit for the person who does it, it can be a great exercise. Although it...Read More

This week’s video blog goes over the reverse lunge, using basic principles that transfer to every variation of the lunge. Be sure to check out tomorrow’s Technique Tuesday post to peep a whole lot of lunge variatons- ya know, if that’s your thing… Then, as always, we have an inside look at some of the...Read More

Technique Tuesday is back again!  This week we look at the 90/90 Isometric Movement Pathway with Kettlebell Rack. The 90/90 Isometric Movement Pathway drill is an awesome motor control exercise for the hips.  We have been playing around for a while now with using load to increase tension. One of the variations we have grown...Read More

Whether you’re thinking about obtaining your Strong First Girya (SFG) certification, or you just want to tackle the 100 snatches in 5:00 benchmark, there are a lot of different approaches out there.  Today, I’m going to show you what I’ve found to be the easiest, most efficient approach to pass the snatch test… First things...Read More

One of the hardest screens for people to clear on the FMS, in my experience, is the trunk stability push-up.  Now, we don’t specifically train for the FMS, nor is the trunk stability push-up the way that you actually do a push-up.  However, I think the common mistakes/faults that we see are cleaned up when...Read More

You may have noticed that we missed Technique Tuesday this week.  Well, we received our brand new InBody570 on Tuesday (check it out here), so we wound up not doing a post!  But, that’s okay because today we are going to do Flash Friday, with a little Technique Tuesday twist, and it’s on the pistol...Read More