When you are doing lunge, split squat, and staggered stance deadlift variations, do you have a REALLY tough time stabilizing and maintaining balance? Do you find that your lack of balance and…
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Is Your Grip Limiting Your Lower Body Training? Try This Tip!
When a LOT of people train their lower body, their grip can be a HUGE limiting factor! In other words, the amount of weight they are able to hold in their hands…
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A Top Pull-Up Mistake You Are Likely Making. And My Solutions!
Are you struggling to do your first pull-up ever, or build up your number of reps? This common pull-up mistake might be holding you back from achieving your pull-up goals!! This is a mistake…
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Get Your First Push-Up: 3 Of My Top Push-Up Cues!
While many people think of the push-up as relatively basic, it is in fact an exercise that a myriad of people of all genders, fitness levels, and abilities, struggle to do properly.…
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3 Of My Go-To Coaching Cues For Better Pull-Ups
Pull-ups are an incredibly empowering, effective, and exciting exercise to do! While pull-ups are challenging for people of all genders, ages, and backgrounds, achieving one or many consecutive pull-ups is a realistic…
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Troubleshooting 5 Key Reasons Why You Are Struggling With Pistol Squats
Here are five common issues people experience when they are learning pistol squats. Unfortunately, as many people are not following a fundamentally sound program, and are not getting helpful coaching tips, they…
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Stop Chicken-Winging Your Muscle-Ups!
With muscle-ups, do you find yourself struggling with the transition and you ‘’chicken-wing’’ your elbows in order to make it over the bar? This is a very common breakdown in form. In…
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Are You Making This Common Plank Mistake?
When countless people perform plank variations (or really, many exercises that are done in a prone position), they mindlessly hang out on their shoulders. This might not make your shoulders overly happy,…
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Sloppy Renegade Row Form? Try Out This Trick!
If you are performing Renegade Rows correctly, your weight should remain equally distributed on both feet and your body should not move at all. VERY few people perform Renegade Rows correctly…
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Serratus Slides Form Fix. Troubleshooting This Awesome Exercise
Serratus slides are an awesome exercise for strengthening the serratus anterior muscle. The serratus anterior is overlooked by many, and is hugely influential in terms of shoulder health and function. The serratus…
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Strength Training: Stop Chasing Fatigue. Focus On Making Yourself Better.
When it comes to strength training, chasing fatigue and trying to make oneself as tired as possible will compromise the integrity of your form during your workouts, and will hinder your ability…
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Hip Hinging: Form Fix
Hip hinging is a movement you are required to do every day. Many people struggle to perform this movement correctly. The video on the left highlights several mistakes you often…
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Step-Ups: Form Fix
Step-ups are an awesome and very beneficial exercise when performed correctly. Unfortunately, most people make key errors that render the exercise much less effective. I have a solution! Potential Solutions: When you…
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Dead Bugs: Good Form Vs Bad Form
Dead bugs are one of my go-to exercises for improving lumbo-pelvic stability (think ‘’core.’’). This is an exercise you see being performed incorrectly ALL the time. GOOD FORM 😇 …
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Banded Taps For Glutes: Good Form Vs Bad Form
Band resisted multidirectional taps is an awesome exercise for the glutes. This is an exercise that most people do incorrectly. If you are performing the exercise correctly it will not feel too…
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Do A Better Plank, Not A Longer Plank!
“What if instead of doing a longer plank, you did a better plank?” This is a quote from coach Elsbeth Vaino. I couldn’t agree with her words more! If you are performing…
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One Of My Favorite Coaching Cues You Likely Haven’t Tried
When a lot of people are performing exercises, they have a tendency of arching their back, and flaring their ribcage. As a coach, this is one of the most common breakdowns in…
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Push-Up Form: Arrow vs T Body Position
When many people perform regular push-ups (and countless other variations), they allow their elbows to flare out so their body and arms end up looking like a ‘’t.’’ This is not efficient,…
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Underrated Glute Bridge Fix
When countless people perform exercises where they are in a supine position, and this includes glute bridge variations, they make this very common compensation which renders the exercises much less effective. …
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Rep Quality Matters! One Of My Game-Changing Tips
Rather than focusing on doing as many reps as possible at any cost (or lifting as much weight) and totally disregarding the quality of each rep, focus on rep quality, and performing…