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Technique Tuesday: Best Squat Accessory Exercises

This week’s Technique Tuesday brought to you by CSP Mass shows you the two of the best squat accessory exercises to help improve your competition lift. Give them a try to help target your weak points and prevent falling forward during the squat: Check back in next week for two of the worst squat accessory exercises that, despite their …

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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Maintaining an Environment

Today’s guest post comes from fellow Cressey Sports Performance coach Miguel Aragoncillo. I’ve had the honor of calling Miguel a friend, training partner and mentor since arriving at CSP and today’s post explains why an intense training environment is so crucial to what we do as coaches and lifters. Enjoy! I have the fortune of …

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Technique Tuesday: How to Keep Your Knees Out while Squatting

This week’s Technique Tuesday (brought to you by CSP Mass) is all about how to keep your knees out while squatting. Lord knows I’ve struggled with this issue before (read about how I fixed my squat problems here, here and here), but with a little focus and patience, it can be fixed. Check it out: And don’t …

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Technique Tuesdays – Elbow Position During Squats

Hey all. I’m pumped to announce that we’re starting a new Facebook initiative at Cressey Sports Performance where we’ll crank out a handful of new videos each week featuring a different member of the staff. My video series will be Technique Tuesdays where I’ll discuss different aspects of powerlifting and how to improve your technique on …

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EricCressey.com – 3 Ways to Create Context for More Effective Coaching

I recently read Gary Vaynerchuk’s book, Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook, and there was a quote in there that really stuck with me: “Content is king, but context is God.” The more I learn about coaching, the more I realize this statement is undeniably true. If content refers to what coaching cues are used, and context refers …

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Cressey Sports Performance Round Table: Carving Your Path as a Strength Coach

This week at Cressey Sports Performance Massachusetts, we received an email from an athlete looking to pursue a career in fitness when his playing days are over. This is a common scenario and one to which many athletes-turned-coaches can relate. Here’s the email (edited slightly to protect privacy): To the Guys at CSP, My name is …

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TonyGentilcore.com: Tips for Becoming a Better Fitness Writer

Last week, I had the honor of being featured on Tony Gentilcore’s website with a guest blog entitled Tips for Becoming a Better Fitness Writer. I’ve always looked up to Tony G (figuratively, because he’s awesome, and literally, because he’s tall and I’m not) since well before we became coworkers at Cressey Sports Performance, so …

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Cressey Sports Performance Internship Diary – Part 3

I could never fit everything I’ve learned at Cressey Sports Performance into a couple of blog posts. But over the past few months, I’ve consolidated  the most important things I’ve learned into nine traits of great coaches. In part three of this mini-series (read parts one and two here), I’ll cover the final three characteristics that …

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