If you want to help prevent lower back, hip or knee pain and improve your lifting, running and riding, you need to include glute activation in your workout routine. Glute activation exercises are movement generally done with little to no weight and for higher reps...
Not every variation of every move is going to be right for you. Especially if you’ve had injuries in the past you’re rebuilding from. If you’ve struggled with knee or hip pain, especially on one side, you may want to focus on unilateral moves. Unilateral, or one sided...
Many of us have thought to ourselves, “My lower back is so weak” when we’ve been suffering from lower back aches and pains. We feel it during ab movements or deadlifts and think that we feel it because we need to strengthen it. But what if the problem isn’t that your...
Too often we only think about progressing movements to build muscle by adding loads. However, you can build muscle by creating progression in other ways especially if you don’t have any tools at your disposal. If it challenges you, it will change you. So if you’re...
I’ve never been a fan of the whole squat for a better butt thing. I think squats are honestly overrated as a glute move, but that’s a video for another day. And while I do think you need a diversity of movements to really get the best results for any muscle group, I...
If you want to strengthen and build your hamstrings, you want to include both hip extension and knee flexion movements. For hip extension, think Romanian Deadlift or Good Morning for example and for knee flexion think about those hamstring curl machines. But how can...
