PDXStrength News

The deadlift is one of my favorite exercises. It’s great for strengthening your posterior chain and should be incorporated into your strength training routine. Here are a few key points to remember for your dead lift set up.

1. Start with the bar over the knots of your shoe laces, about an inch away from your shins in a stance that you would perform a vertical jump from.

2. Your shoulders should be slightly in front of the bar on your set up, so looking down your scapulas would be aligned over the center of the bar.

3. Grip the bar in a hook grip, allowing room to push your knees out slightly, squeeze your chest up, and lock your back into extension. Pick the bar up, so it stays close or in contact with your shines and thighs, and think of the bar traveling in one straight line.

Dead Lift Tips from Jocelyn Streng on Vimeo.

Who else is excited for our upcoming Olympic lifting workshops! Ken will be hosting the “Clean and Jerk” workshop in September and the “Snatch” in early October. These integral lifts are key to bring, speed, power, coordination, and balance to your overall training while increasing explosive strength and explosive output. Sign up here: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ws.asp?studioid=45374&stype=-8&sView=day&sTrn=100000004  

Check out the new workshop Nigel will be teaching September 13th!

PULL HANG & SWING WORKSHOP (Hang with the swingers who have lots of pull)
Got your first pull up already? Excited to explore what lies beyond? Let’s spend some time to focus on tools for:
1) stringing together kipping pull ups
2) butterfly pull ups
3) ring development skills
4) ring muscle up
5) bar muscle up

Thin leather gloves might be a good investment during these stages of development. Or else bring athletic tape and we’ll tape up hands.

Sign up here: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ws.asp?studioid=45374&stype=-8&sView=day&sTrn=100000008

Check out the new workshop Nigel will be teaching September 13th!

PULL HANG & SWING WORKSHOP (Hang with the swingers who have lots of pull)
Got your first pull up already? Excited to explore what lies beyond? Let’s spend some time to focus on tools for:
1) stringing together kipping pull ups
2) butterfly pull ups
3) ring development skills
4) ring muscle up
5) bar muscle up

Thin leather gloves might be a good investment during these stages of development. Or else bring athletic tape and we’ll tape up hands.

Sign up here: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ws.asp?studioid=45374&stype=-8&sView=day&sTrn=100000008