Happy Monday! Like every other Monday, here are a few thoughts bouncing around in my head after a week of reading, podcasts, cruising social media and any other continuing ed. Enjoy! If you develop athletes that move better, move stronger, and are better conditioned, you will be alright.More doesn’t equal better in the weight room, … Continue reading Monday Musings

Happy Super Bowl Sunday! Just like every other Sunday, we have another group of podcasts and articles to read and listen to that I have dived into. Like every other week, there was a ton of content out there both in written form and through podcasts. Before we get to the weekly content, I wanted … Continue reading S&C Week in Review: 2/7

The Alternating Dumbbell Bench Press is one of my absolute favorite pressing variations with both general fitness clients and athletes because of the amount of benefits one sees from the movement; ☑️ Pressing Strength☑️ Core Stability☑️ Shoulder Stability☑️ Uni-lateral Strength …and many of these benefits you don’t get with the traditional Dumbbell Bench Press. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_D_CB069Fo&feature=youtu.be

And we are back with a new month of training in the Train With Craig program, which means a new set of workouts for everyone! Here is an example of our Day 3 in the February General Fitness Program 👇 A1. 45 Degree Lateral BoundA2. Med Ball Overhead SlamA3. Plate Deadbug (not shown) B1. Landmine … Continue reading Train With Craig – February!

If you walked in to MaxWay Performance you would see your fair share of Chest Supported Rows. We like the Chest Supported Row because it is a solid horizontal row variation that is great for upper back and posterior shoulder strength…and its pretty easy to perform well. One of the advanced variations that we use … Continue reading A Great Chest Supported Row Variation…

Just a friendly reminder...you don’t actually have to be physically moving in various planes to get some of the benefits to multi-plannar training. Pure single leg work requires the stabilizers of the hip to stabilize in various planes, check some of the same boxes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za2X_AsPL9c&feature=youtu.be

Coaching Hack — Have people stand on 12-18” boxes for overhead slams. We all know that med ball work is great for training power, learning how to link the upper body and the lower body together through the core. But a lot of times the biggest problem I personally deal with is people not throwing … Continue reading Slams on a Box?

Happy Monday! Like every other Monday, here are a few thoughts bouncing around in my head after a week of reading, podcasts, cruising social media and any other continuing ed. Enjoy! Our field tends to over-complicate things. A lot.I’m not a more is better guy, I’m a better is better guy.Stress is stress. It doesn’t … Continue reading Monday Musings