strength and conditioning

You should aim to keep things as simple as possible to go from tall and scrawny to big and jacked.

Organize breathing, maintain movement details, and work hard.

Goal today is enough weight to allow stability.

When it comes to planning your training: adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Organization of movement, power, timing, and dexterity all play an equal part in the safe and heavy completion of your lifts.

If designated weights require interruption of sets, make as minor an adjustment as possible to continue safely.

Cluster sets - a system of combining max efforts in groups of reps across smaller sets divided by short, incomplete rest periods.

Attack the mind and the body will follow.

Bracing the core and engaging the lats will make this exercise more tolerable and help you build up some muscles endurance

Whichever path is applied, full effort is expected.

Ditch the self-limiting thoughts that have been holding you back and flip your thinking to a growth mindset.

If we lose our strong hinge, back rounds, or legs fail to snap straight in the “drive” portion of the movement, adjust accordingly and continue safely.

Work hard, stay focused on position, and keep rest within designated duration.

How to you adjust and taper training stressors to maximize peak athletic performance.

Rest as needed between sets. If sets of 3 require interruption at chosen weight, make as minor an adjustment as needed and complete the next uninterrupted.

If I were held at gunpoint and forced to choose one lower body exercise, I would choose the pistol.

Position and range of motion always govern weight, and overhead is not a relative position.