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Dear Strength Coach,

Here are 6 simple, yet challenging exercises, all initiated with the athlete or client lying on his/her back:

1. Hamstrings – Press your heels into the floor, so that the pelvis is unloaded or lifted off the floor. (Unloaded = if there was a scale under the pelvis, the pelvis would touch the scale, but the scale would show 0)
2. Glutes and lower abdominals – squeeze the glutes as hard as possible. Then while…

Dear Strength Coach,

I just wrote an article as a response to an another article that emphasised the idea that inward movement of the knees during squats are "natural". Here are two key points from my article:

1 When the knees move inward as you pass through the sticking point of the squat, it is because your abdominals contract harder than the abductors and external rotators of the hip joint.

2. : Letting the knees move inward, puts a break on, partially shuts…

In the pursuit of world class strength, power, speed or endurance we can afford to leave no potentially beneficially training method on the table.

The best strength coaches and personal trainers embrace the whole spectrum of training methods from extremely simple, no equipment methods, like bodyweight exercises on the floor, to high tech measurement tools like myotest (www.myotest.com).

This blog is about one of the simplest, yet most…

Just wanted to share a short excerpt on todays writings on my next workshop titled "Victory Loves Preparation"

Here are some thoughts on how training age affects the choice of exercises for the general preparation (warm up)

-       Beginners may lack range of motion in multiple joint movements and thus should engage in corrective stretching (4)

-       Beginners may have postural issues that can and should be addressed in the general warm up with…