The 14 Best Resources for Strength – May 2016 Edition
Stabilize Your Deadlift With Straight Arm Pulldowns – John Rusin This is a great in depth article covering all things straight arm lat pulldowns. Dr. John Rusin goes into a variety of different variations of the movement, and how this exercise can help benefit your deadlift and trunk stability. I’ve found myself using and…
The 14 Best Resources for Strength – April 2016 Edition
How to Fix A Good Morning-Style Squat – John Clark John breaks down one of the main technical reasons that lifters tend to pitch forward in the squat. We can typically look at a lifters elbow position, and this will dictate where the bar will go. If we see the elbows shoot back (I…
Week 1, Day 1 – Max Effort Lower – Offseason Begins!
I’m back at it! After a very long deload week I am officially back into offseason powerlifting training. I missed posting about the last two training sessions before the week started due to a full schedule which even involved a trip to the Elitefts S4 Compound with Purdue Barbell for a seminar with Dave “Under…
Quad Dominant or Posterior Chain Deficient?
I’m going to tackle one of the most common issues that I see happen during a squat. There can be a host of different errors and issues with this complicated lift, but a very common mistake is having the hips rise drastically out of the bottom of the squat, and essentially a good morning occurs.…
The 14 Best Resources for Strength – March 2016 Edition
The Over Warm-Up: And How It Can Help You Lift More Weight – Tony Gentilcore Tony goes over a very simple yet warm up routine that can help increase your typical training session. Essentially this uses post-activation potentiation to help make your work sets feel lighter and faster than normal. If you come into…