My Best Squat Program I’ve received this question dozens if not 100’s of times since Instagram recently debuted their “questions” feature. “What is the best way to get my squat up?” I’m of the mind that power is the number one physical characteristic that an athlete and a weightlifter must chase, but strength isn’t too…
5 Things for Great Weightlifting Technique with Mike McKenna If you coach the Olympic lifts you should listen to this episode. Mike and I go over the 5 (maybe 6) most important things for weightlifting technique. We tried to distill technique down to the simplest items possible including: Why balance is the most important…
2 Simple Do’s and Don’ts for Better Lifts Before you dive in this is not an article about technique, or programming, but these might be 2 of the easiest fixes you can make if you want to be better at weightlifting. Hell they might be 2 of the easiest things you can do to be…
Whole Foot, Whole Time: Balance in Weightlifting Movements Here I am teaching a course on weightlifting looking across the room at a giant poster on the wall with depictions of how the athlete should snatch and clean and jerk. Nothing overtly wrong with it, until I look at the little diagram on the poster of…
Training at Thresholds: How to not kill yourself training for weightlifting Staring at your program and looking at what’s on tap for the day, you’re likely to see one of two things. Option 1: A hard and fast percentage of your best lift. Written in blood, on a tablet of stone, you have to hit…
How Often Should you PR? Recently the following question was posed to me: How often should I PR? Specifically this was a masters lifter, running into some frustration on how he should gauge improvement. Weightlifting, in the first couple years, can set you up for a royal mind trick down the road. It’s as if…
On this episode Coach Dos and I interview Coach Tim Socha, University of Washington Strength Coach.
This isn’t a program for true beginners.
A true beginner would be my dream scenario, a young talented athlete that wants to pursue weightlifting, one with very little training, but untapped athleticism. I don’t get many of those. In the US we don’t get many of those at all.
I recently read an article by a performance coach talking about how he coaches the Olympic lifts. His argument was that it is not correct to “jump your feet” in weightlifting. He didn’t go so far as to say it was out and out wrong, but in pretty strong terms he suggested that doing so wasn’t exactly…
I am pretty weary of the “squat debate” that has taken place on the internet recently. I think the points of contention that are generating blog posts ad nausem are pretty petty and small. So this post can serve to end that debate, and we can move onto better topics. The problem, with the debate,…