In this post, I will go over some tips from Starting Strength coach Pete Troupos, to help you stop pulling around your knees and maintain a straighter bar path in the deadlift. Some people might not really realize are doing this mistake. So, we’re going to point out a few things: what may cause it, how to tell if you’re doing it, and then, some tips on how to correct that.
Today we’re going to talk about a fairly common occurrence. What do you do about your training when things are not optimal? What concessions do you make when things are not going like they’re supposed to? Some examples of this would include:
Injuries like you’ve got an elbow that’s hot.
A little tendonitis in the elbow extensor stuff.
You’ve got a knee, a hip or low backs bothering you.
This is how world class sports performance coach Boo Schexnayder completely details the process of planning and writing weight training workouts for speed and power.
We can classify all weight training exercises into the following categories. This is important because each category of exercises serves a very different purpose in the program. Also, when we study the various weight training protocols available to us, they’ll be classified in the same way.
Today I’m going to explain how to set up and perform seated pin presses when equipment limitations prevent you from using the standing lift. If you’re training at a gym that’s not a Starting Strength gym or a Starting Strength affiliate, you might not have the proper equipment to do standing pin presses. So, you might have to improvise a little bit. You’re just going to have to change a few things and pay attention to a couple of things whenever you’re actually getting tight for the actual press to initiate.
The bench press is everybody’s favorite exercise in the gym. When you first start lifting weights, the first thing you do is bench press. The reason for that is because the perception about the bench press is that it makes you look better. The bench press is the most important thing for your appearance. This is not exactly true. One thing it does do is it makes things change very quickly. It makes your appearance of a muscular shoulders and chest happen very quickly. But the bench press is not as simple an exercise as you want it to be. The bench press is a movement that starts at the floor and ends at the bar. Even though you’re laying on a bench, your lower body is involved in the bench press because of the brace that must occur between your shoulders pinned to the bench and your feet pinned to the floor. That stable bridge between the floor and your shoulders is the foundation of the movement pattern. You can’t bench as much weight with your feet up on the bench, for example, as you can with your feet on the floor locked in place, setting tension against your spine, your hips and your knees. So, the bench press is a little bit more complicated than it looks like it is. So, today we’re going to show you how to get in position on the bench, and what to do with your feet, your butt, your hips, your back, your legs and all the stuff that contributes to a big heavy bench press. We’re going through the correct setup for the bench press according to Mark Rippetoe and Starting Strength methodology. Establishing a stable connection between the floor and your shoulders is essential for using your whole body and getting the best training effect.
Pulling a bar off of the ground is a really fundamental process. It’s what weightlifting is all about. It’s the reaction between the loaded barbell, you and gravity. Gravity pulls in one direction: it pulls straight down. You’re interacting with the floor with your feet. This means that the reaction between the weighted barbell and you is a function of your feet basically.
In this post, I’m going to explain one of the Starting Strength coach Rusty’s favorite cues and why you need to move the bar faster. Rusty is a coach at the Wichita Falls Athletic Club.
Today we’re going to talk about training partners. We’re going to discuss qualities that make a lifting partner a valuable asset. Training partners are a real good thing to have one up. It’s not entirely necessary, especially if you can’t find a good one. But if you can find a good one, it makes everything easier. It makes training itself easier. It makes your progress easier to keep track of. It’s good to have the encouragement and another set of eyes on your technique. And there are a lot of reasons why a good training partner is an essential part of a productive approach to training. But what is a good one? What is a good training partner?
If you’re going to grab a barbell, grab the barbell. According to Rusty, Starting Strength coach at the Wichita Falls Athletic Club, you should be squeezing the barbell while lifting. “Crushing the bar” is a coaching cue that he uses a lot with kids and clients that are kind of beginning because everybody just kind of grabs a hold of bar like they’re picking something light up off the ground. They just kind of hold on to it as much as they feel they need to not as hard as they can.
In this post I’m going to explain the bar position starting in the press and some common press position mistakes seen in those with long forearms.
The first common mistake is starting the bar too high whenever you’re pressing. Rusty, coach at the Wichita Falls Athletic Club, sees this normally whenever presses start getting heavier. People start creeping the bar up. There’re different ways that this looks. Some raise their chin and they get their bar as high as they can. Some just put the bar right in front of their face. The starting position is below the chin while your head is straight on. That’s the standard. If you hit that standard everytime, then you don’t add in different variables of the bar position starting.