Every Memorial Day, CrossFitters emerge from their boxes ready to rumble. Totaling a two-mile journey — plus 600 bodyweight reps while wearing a weighted vest — the Murph CrossFit workout will challenge even the most hardcore athletes. Murph sandwiches 100...
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How do you measure your own performance in the gym? Quantifying your strength is easy enough; just count up the plates you have loaded on your barbell. On the other hand, analyzing and understanding the quality of your lifting is something else. Looking at your bar path is one of...
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The sport of Olympic lifting is all about taking flight. Unlike its competitive cousins powerlifting and strongman, weightlifting demands that you move dynamically with a loaded barbell at very high velocities from start to finish. At the core of that sport-specific demand is your ability — or, rather, the necessity...
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All squats are not created equal. I repeat, all squats are not created equal. Many lifters and athletes perform squats in the same way in which they were first taught and/or have seen on Instagram and Youtube. While those are both great resources for squat development, many lifters fail to...
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The first image that comes to mind when you think about getting stronger may well be of barbells and going hard in the squat rack. That’s certainly one way to do it. You can also get absurdly strong with no equipment at all (well, maybe a pull-up bar). True, you’re...
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