Tag: #coachingcue

  • Buttwink – Assessing Stability

    Addressing the ‘butt wink’ with your clients🤔 This tends to be one of the tougher problems to solve in a clients squat. Why? Not just because there can be a variety of answers client to client, but often… clients can have a really strong or heavy weighted squat with a butt wink and report no…

  • Coaching Cue: Protect Your Pits

    The elusive lat muscle. There are a million and one ways to cue how to access your lats and sometimes clients still struggle to engage each rep. “Protect your pits” is a quick easy saying to add to your arsenal of cues for lat engagement. The Latissimus Dorsi muscle is a large muscle spanning across…

  • Coaching Cue: Listen

    Something that has not been touched on a lot here in the blog is the art of coaching. Yes, we want to be technically trained, and we absolutely need to seek continuing education in order to better our technical knowledge. BUT there is one skill in coaching that stands out for all the greatest coaches…

  • Coaching Cue: Push The Big Toe Down

    This is one of my most utilized cues. In any given exercise, our feet may be the only structure in contact with the ground. If they are not stable, the entire kinetic chain will leak power. By Pushing the big toe down, your client will create a strong arch in their foot. This will instantly…

  • Goals Are Considered, Not Mandatory

    As coaches we’ve all asked this question, “What are your goals?” To which our new, nervous client goes, “I don’t know”, “to be strong”, “to lose weight”. None of these are your traditional SMART goals. This ends up being an empty question which leaves the client feeling vulnerable and you the coach, nothing to truly…

  • Coaching Cue: Slow Down

    SLOW DOWN “Motor Learning doesn’t occur if you’re racing along in panic mode and defaulting to incorrect pre-existing patterns” – Eric Cressey Lifting weights steadily and under control will help minimize risk for injury and maximize muscle recruitment for strength and growth. Questions to ask your clients after a movement: – Where do you feel…