If you’re reading this, my guess is you enjoy exercising, and not exercising is a foreign concept to you. But deloading – a purposeful reduction in training frequency, volume and/or intensity – is necessary to help your body and mind recover and keep making progress. Deloads are boring. But Alex Viada said it best at the …
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“Abs are made in the kitchen.” “You can’t out-train a bad diet.” “Gotta eat big to get big.” There’s no shortage of nutritional cliches in the fitness world. We get it. Eating right is a huge part of being fit. And if you care about your performance in the gym, chances are you spend a …
Last Sunday, we hosted the Powerlifting Fundamentals seminar at 212 Health & Performance in Rumford, Rhode Island. It was my first ever “solo” seminar and it was beyond awesome. Great turnout, great energy and great lifting. During the lecture portion, I spoke about training philosophy and program design. I preached the importance of choosing the right …
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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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 …
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Maintaining an Environment Read More »
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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The fitness world is exceptionally prone to the overreaction/under-reaction phenomenon. That is, fitness-minded people often fall victim to an all-or-nothing view of certain foods, exercises or training methodologies. Remember how scary dietary fat was in the 80’s? How about evil carbs in the 2000’s? Spinal flexion sure was terrible 10 years ago, but now extension …
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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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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I’m incredibly excited to announce that I’ll be presenting at the first annual Powerlifting Fundamentals Seminar at 212 Health & Performance on July 12, 2015, in Rumford, Rhode Island. This is officially my first “headlining” seminar and I couldn’t be more fired up to share my knowledge and passion for the sport of powerlifting. Here’s …
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