My guide shows you how to Squat: proper stance and grip, where to look, how to avoid knee pain, and more. Get stronger with my technique tips.
Using the proper goblet squat technique, you should be able to safely and efficiently engage your entire body. These squats work more than just your mirror muscles and engage much of your stabilizer muscles as well. Proper goblet squat technique requires you to keep your core engaged throughout...
This type of squat emphasizes the quadriceps and is excellent for a pre-season preparation phase. In both types of squats, the athlete should perform the exercise in front of a mirror. Squatting in front of a mirror enables the athlete to perfect his technique because of the visual feedback...
The best squat technique for beginners is the sit or box squat. This involves utilising a chair or box as a fixed point to aim for while helping you emphasise the motion of driving your hips back and down rather than initiating the movement at the knees or arching your back. Here’s ...
This will probably also be your most efficient lifting technique in this particular stance, where you distribute the work pretty evenly between the knee and hip extensors. The alternative would be to shove your knees way forward and keep your hips closer to your feet (like in afront squat) ...
The biggest and most common mistakes you will find with the pull-up technique are related to form. Most pull-ups you will have the unfortunate privilege of witnessing are not performed with full Range of Motion (ROM), typically meaning partial instead of full extension of the arms is performe...
Technique is similar to a conventional Deadlift – bar over mid-foot, shoulder-blades over the bar, and neutral back. But the sumo stance puts your torso more upright and hips lower than the conventional Deadlift. This impacts the muscles worked. Sumo Deadlifts work your lower back muscles ...
Unlike other calisthenic movements that can be highly technical, the burpee is a fairly simplistic maneuver. Combining a push-up and jump squat can engage almost every muscle in the body to some degree. Let’s break the technique down one step at a time. ...
Although it doesn’t physically move the weight, the muscles that make up your upper back provide a critical base of support to press off of. Furthermore, the scapular pinch, a critical technique for all barbell benching, is created via isometric tension from your middle traps and rhomboids...
If you don't use proper exercise technique when working out, you run the risk of injury. Our safety tips will ensure you have a fun - and a safe - workout. Loud grunting. Sweat left on benches. Chatting on a mobile phone. Likely, one of these actions makes your list of irritating...