Let’s just say it was a frustrating day of filming today 🤬🤣
Throwback to 2018 when Brooks Performance was a team of 4…. We had a lot of fun filming this…. I miss those days 👊
“Spread the floor” or “knees out” was a cue I was taught to create tension in the hips and control at the knees. Problem was I took this too literally and would push my knees out hard, creating torque at the hip…post squat session I would end up in a heap of lateral quad pain and patella pain. I had squatted this way for years and never thought it was to blame, I just thought I had dodgy knees and battled through. For the past few weeks I’ve been squatting with no spreading the floor or pushing the knees out…. and guess what? A massive reduction in pain!!!! I guess the moral of story is don’t take the “knees out” cue too literally. Rather ensure you have good control of the knee, make sure it tracks in line with the toe and ensure it doesn’t cave in!
She’s on a comeback… after 2 kids and 2.5 years away from the gym, wifey @jessicaschultz has found her love for getting strong again… 10 reps on a pull up… not bad 😉
When a fitness guru tells you cardio isn’t effective for fat loss, run a mile….if your primary goal is to get shredded then burning calories via cardio is your best bet. Obviously you would use this alongside a structured resistance training program. In our Average to Savage program we use cardio as a tool in the later phases of the program to drive fat loss when it may be stalling 🔥
Loaded back extensions are incredibly effective at building the glutes and hamstrings. The problem is that most lifters forget the “loaded”part. I have found that to truely benefit from this exercise you need to use a lot of weight. Here I’m demonstrating a incline back extension with a snatch grip. This variation also challenges the back musculature isometrically. An amazing exercise for the entire posterior chain.
