Month: July 2016

overhead carries

Technique Tuesday: Overhead Carries – Not Just for Baseball Players

Technique Tuesdays / By

This week’s Technique Tuesday covers overhead carries, which we use all the time with our baseball players at Cressey Sports Performance. Turns out they’re not just for overhead athletes and actually fit perfectly in a general fitness routine or a powerlifting-focused program. I’ll cover three types of overhead carries that we frequently use and how they’ll …

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Technique Tuesday: Body Saw Variations for Advanced Core Strength

Technique Tuesdays / By

As we continue to hammer advanced core strength exercises, this week’s Techinque Tuesday is all about the body saw and its variations. The body saw challenges the anterior core much like the ab wheel rollout, but adds in an upper body component that is great for anyone looking to improve shoulder function. Slideboard body saws are the …

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Discipline Equals Freedom

Monday Motivation / By

I recently finished reading Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win, a book by retired SEALs Jocko Willink and Leif Babin. The book was beyond inspiring, especially the section where Willink described a concept summed up in three simple words: discipline equals freedom. Willink recalls how his platoon struggled to efficiently collect evidence from areas which …

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Technique Tuesday: 2 Ways to Improve Your Deadlift Lockout

Powerlifting, Technique Tuesdays / By

This week’s Technique Tuesday pulls another question we got from our Facebook live Q&A: how can you improve your deadlift lockout? In my experience, there are two reliable ways to build a stronger deadlift lockout: Get in a better position off the floor. Increase your bar speed. Between these two things, you should crush your …

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optimizing the big 3

Optimizing the Big 3: August 14 at Cressey Sports Performance

Cressey Sports Performance, Powerlifting / By

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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