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Building Bridges: Leveraging Your Employer to Enhance Your Personal Brand

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Here’s a guest blog I wrote for CSP co-founder and business director Pete Dupuis about building my personal brand at Cressey Sports Performance. The original post appeared on PeteDupuis.com, so make sure to check out Pete’s site for tons of great business info! “I’ve been battling internally with leaving full time work in a field I don’t …

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Optimizing the Big 3: August 14 at Cressey Sports Performance

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I’m pumped to announce that Greg Robins and I will be hosting a one-day Optimizing the Big 3 powerlifting seminar at Cressey Sports Performance on Sunday, August 14. If you’ve been wanting to get hands-on coaching from Greg and myself, now’s your chance. We’ll spend a full day discussing and performing the squat, bench press and …

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Technique Tuesday (Thursday? Friday?) – How to Bounce Out of the Bottom of the Squat

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I’m a few days late with this week’s Technique Tuesday but I promise it’s worth it! We’re gonna talk about squats for the next few weeks, and today’s topic answers a question I get frequently: Should I bounce out of the bottom of the squat?  My answer is absolutely, but only if you can stay in …

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Video: CSP Powerlifting at the RPS Power Challenge

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Last weekend I had the honor and privilege of coaching nine amazing lifters at the RPS Power Challenge powerlifting meet in Everrett, Massachusetts. It was a well-run, well-judged meet (as is the norm for RPS meets) and everyone had a great time. With a mix of first-timers and veteran lifters, CSP Powerlifting put forth a …

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Technique Tuesday: How to Keep Your Butt Down during the Bench Press

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This week’s Technique Tuesday will show you how to avoid the cardinal sin of the bench press: lifting your butt off the bench. Many people think you have to give up your leg drive to keep your butt on the bench. Lucky for you, they couldn’t be more wrong. It all comes down to foot position …

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Technique Tuesday: Elbow Position During the Bench Press

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This week’s Technique Tuesday is all about the bench press and why you must keep your elbows under the bar to press heavy weights. Want to know why elbow position is so important? And why gripping the bar too close, over-tucking the elbows and touching too low on the chest can sabotage your bench press numbers? Check it out: …

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Technique Tuesday: Squat Accessory Exercises that Don’t Work as Well as You Think

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This week’s Technique Tuesday brought to you by CSP Mass talks about why two of the most popular squat accessory exercises might not work as well as you think. If you’ve ever used box squats and good mornings to bring up your squat but ended up with no gains to show for it, I feel …

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Seminars Update: Optimizing the Big 3 and CSP Fall Seminar

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Clear your schedules, folks. I’m extremely excited to announce that I’ll be presenting at three seminars over the next few months. OPTIMIZING THE BIG 3 After a tremendous experience and great turnout at the seminar this past March, I’m beyond honored to assist Greg Robins with the hands-on portion of not one but TWO more …

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