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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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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Amazing Client Progress: 2 Chin-Ups At Age 75!
This was pre-pandemic. Sue is 75 years old. She always wanted to be able to do an unassisted pull-up. For several years we worked as a team to achieve this goal.…
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Amazing Client Pull-Up Progress: From 0 To 9 Reps In A Year!
Let me introduce my online client Amanda. She is 48 years old, and lives on the other side of the world in Australia. Pull-ups are a big goal of Amanda’s. When we…
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Light Up Your Hip Flexors And Core With This Innovative Hollow Body.
This exercise, which combines a hollow body and band resisted hip flexor ‘’cycles,’’ strengthens the hip flexors, and improves lumbo-pelvic stability. This exercise is very deceptively challenging! I saw another coach…
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Seal Rows For A Stronger Back
Have you tried Seal Rows before? While the set-up isn’t always the most practical, the exercise is awesome and is totally worth doing! Seal Rows strengthen the muscles in the mid…
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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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Bulletproof Your Shoulders With This Exercise
Here is an awesome exercise for bulletproof shoulders. I love using these as part of my warm-up, particularly before I do my muscle-ups, pull-ups and push-ups. Coaching Tips: Place a resistance…
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5 Challenging “Filler” Exercises You Need To Try!
My time is valuable, so I like to maximize every minute I spend training. A lot of the time, instead of remaining totally idle between sets I will incorporate “filler” exercises. As…
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One Of The Most Deceptively Challenging Dead Bug Variations
Dead bugs are one of my favourite exercises for improving lumbo-pelvic stability. If you are unfamiliar with this term, think core stability. Here is one of the most deceptively challenging dead bug…
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Learn Pull-Ups With These 8 Exercises!
Are you struggling to do your first pull-up ever, or improve your current best for reps? You might be struggling to do pull-ups as you probably aren’t doing exercises that are the…
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Practice Pull-Ups Without A Bar?
Do you want to practice pull-ups but don’t have access to a bar? Or do you already do pull-ups and want an additional exercise to add to your arsenal? If so, look…
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An Innovative Body Saw That Also Strengthens The Hip Flexors??
Body saws are an amazing serratus strengthener, and also improve lumbo-pelvic stability, and shoulder and scapular controlled mobility. This advanced body saw variation also strengthens the hip flexors. Not only am I…
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Hollow Body For Stronger Core And Lats
This exercise improves lumbo-pelvic stability, and shoulder and scapular controlled mobility. While the band resistance isn’t too significant, this exercise strengthens the lats, particularly if you are really mindful of contracting them…
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Build A Stronger Grip With These 5 Innovative Exercises!
Do you want to build a stronger grip? Here are 5 innovative exercises that will help improve your grip. Improving your grip will have a huge positive carryover to your training in many…
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5 “Ultimate” Innovative Exercises For Better Pull-Ups
This week I’m sharing 5 innovative exercises that will help improve your pull-ups. #1) Band Resisted Prone Bodyweight Pulls This exercise strengthens the “pull-up” muscles, and improves shoulder and scapular controlled mobility.…
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My 14 Most Popular Home Workout Instagram Posts From 2020
I concluded the final week of 2020 and kicked off 2021 by sharing my 14 most popular home workout posts of the year from Instagram. I devoted much of this year to…
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5 Of My Go-To Exercises For Shoulder Health
Here are 5 of my go-to exercises for shoulder health. All of these exercises require minimal equipment so they can be done at home, or in a gym. #1) Body Saws This…
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5 Innovative Exercises For Better Pull-Ups
While most of the exercises I use to train pull-ups are fairly fundamental, I do like to incorporate some innovative exercises from time to time. Make no mistake, while most of the…
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Improve Your Pull-Ups With These 5 Exercises
The pull-up is one of the most badass and beneficial exercises you can do. This versatile compound bodyweight exercise can be done anywhere, anytime, as it requires nothing but a bar, and…