Official Strength Debates

Less experienced lifters make the mistake of not warming up properly

A lot of times when the weight feels heavy, people blame it on sleep, CNS fatigue, nutrition but a lot of times it’s simply because your warm up sucks or it’s non existent.

A couple warning signs that your warm up sucks:

If you do the same exact weight for same exact reps each week.

If your warm up is less than 10 minutes

If someone asked you your strategy for your warm up and you don’t have an answer

Don’t worry I got you covered and this is especially useful for low rep training propertizing strength, power or hypertrophy

Link below for free download of my warm up system

Let’s look at the deadlift

Is the best form, and the form that allows you to move the most weight the same exact form??

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Your first 6 weeks under a barbell, mapped out.

Beginners don't need more information. They need a plan they can follow and the coaching notes to run it right.

Today's Rx: Back squat · primary lift @ 70–85%

Full article: rxstrengthandfitness.com/post/beginner-…

You probably never seen this before because I made it up

Most people use verbal cues, some use visual cues, but not many use tactile cues. Tactile cues are great bc they are simple and provide reinforcement with feedback to know when you are achieving the goal.

The towel came from my time working with large groups of high school athletes. It’s very common to use a box for many reasons but I would use a box to set standards for depth. The problem with the box is I belief it teaches athletes to sit back, when a lot of times I would prefer sitting down. I say all the time let the knees bend. The towel helps you sit down and keeps the weight in the mid-foot

The other problem a towel solves is you don’t always have enough boxes, you can easily find 20 towels and you can adjust to each individual height

Give it a shot!

Believe it or not I even get criticized on this rep on IG

If I could give anyone advice it would be to not try to lift so perfect that you end up not even lifting

I saw it for years in the performance world these coaches try to make everything so perfect the athlete isn’t even training