GRIT Strength and Power

I’m sharing something a little more personal today because this journey has given me so much clarity

Seven weeks ago, I shared my competition prep plan to keep myself accountable. Now, with just three weeks to go, I wanted to share one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned along the way not just in my competition prep, but in other areas of my life too

I’d love to know if any of this resonates with you🫰🏽🫰🏽

Jumping forward in your sn**ches is generally caused by the bar swinging forward when it passes your knees.

A constraint I like to use for my lifters who have the tendency to jump forward is to draw a line on the platform and for the toes to be right against the line.

The line is helpful to provide on the spot visual feedback and body and positional awareness.

In return, it will allow you to focus on effective vertical drive through their legs, stay longer in the extension and control of the bar!

Have you used a line on the platform to help you with your sn**ches? Comment below!

We’re getting some serious heatwave up here in the northern hemisphere and if your training sessions have been feeling more challenging than usual it’s because it is.

Exercising in hot weather places extra strain on your heart and increases the risk of dehydration. It also affects how you perceive exertion and how you perform your lifts.

The heat is not a reason to entirely skip your sessions. It’s just another variable to work around and manage in your sessions, just like how you would when you’ve slept poorly one night or when stress has been high during the week or when your body feels a bit beat up (time for a deload then, mate).

You might find that you’re not able to exert as much leg drive as you would in your lifts.

You might find your quality of movement is not close to last week’s.

You might find the timing in your lifts are a bit off.

Ultimately, these are the outcomes of external stressors affecting training and that is COMPLETELY OKAY.

We show up, hydrate, adjust and put the effort in.

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Maximise your strength gains by adding eccentric (downward phase) work 💪🏽

When you’re performing clean or sn**ch pulls or deadlifts - try slowing down the eccentric portion of your lift instead of letting it drop to the floor.

Slowing down to the floor improves your positional strength, body and spatial awareness relative to the bar, and will get you jacked overall.

Do you do this for your deadlifts or pulls?? Comment below!