Strength Workouts

Key Lifting Cues:

• Everything starts in the feet

  • When doing any squat, deadlift, or RDL imagine a paper towel underneath your feet that you’re trying to tear in half. That “push out” feeling is the tension we want to keep through the entire movement. 

  • In any SL position try and create a tripod with your foot focusing on the big toe, pinky toe and heel. Really focus on pushing that big toe into the ground (that’s usually the first thing that falls out of position)

• Keep head under weight; follow through

  • In any OH movement it’s important to keep your head underneath the BB, DB or any other weight. 

• Hinging is not bending

  • In any hinge motion I want you to pretend like there's a band around your hips and someone is pulling you back..send your hips as far back as you can

• Most movements need your core…so use it!!

  • Brace your core by sending your breath through your ribcage..it helps me to exhale everything out first

  • If you have trouble engaging your core do some core exercises before a lift…I love a hollow hold/deadbug combo