by rawbarbellclub | Sep 20, 2017 | RAW Quick Tips, Uncategorized, Youtube
Wider Grip Front Rack For the beginner learning weightlifting movements, front rack can be difficult. It is an often weird a and unnatural position that seems at odd with how we would normally position an athlete to hold weight. Protracted scapulae, shoulders in...
by rawbarbellclub | Sep 13, 2017 | RAW Quick Tips, Uncategorized, Youtube
Scaling the Hollow Rock Hollow Rocks and Holds are a great way to easily build strength and stability in the midline. If you can brace the spine in a meaningful way, under the immense loads of your own extremities (arms and legs), your are vastly more prepared to...
by rawbarbellclub | Sep 6, 2017 | RAW Quick Tips, Uncategorized, Youtube
Choosing Attempts Choosing attempts is a tricky one that we get asked about a lot. There is an art to getting yourself up to working sets without misses, and still feel good enough to complete your sets, or even PR. I have a quite simple protocol to use and it’s...
by rawbarbellclub | Aug 31, 2017 | RAW Quick Tips, Uncategorized, Youtube
Squatting For Weightlifting In this episode of RAW Quick Tips, Rhe goes through squatting for weightlifting, with you dropping your body between you legs, rather than sitting back. It is the most superior way to squat with respect to the sport as it has the most...
by rawbarbellclub | Aug 23, 2017 | RAW Quick Tips, Uncategorized, Youtube
Box Squats for Weightlifting I really like Box squats for weightlifting. It helps with flexibility a lot better than stretching, builds up the often dormant hip muscles and is a great way to teach proper bracing and tempo. At RAW Barbell Club we actually use the Box...
by rawbarbellclub | Jul 27, 2017 | RAW Quick Tips, Uncategorized, Youtube
Faster Elbows in the Clean A lot of people stuff up the timing when trying to both get under the bar and pull the bar up. They need faster elbows in the clean. Once the clean is broken from the floor, our goal is to put in as much energy ‘as needed’ to...
