Articles | coaching


Andrew Lewis, SSC | February 16, 2022

The best grip in the squat is going to have the lifter's hands grabbing the bar with as narrow a grip as the shoulders can tolerate. This will produce uncomfortable (but not painful) tightness in the shoulders. This will also produce a stable, unmoving bar position. This is critical because the bar should be pinned against the posterior deltoids by the hands with the bar just under the spine of the scapulas.

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Mark Rippetoe | January 19, 2022

If you want to be a coach, there are several things we know about the good ones and how they got that way. All of these qualifiers are components of the coach's skill set, but not all of them are under your control. In the same way that I cannot be a guard in the NBA, not everybody can become a good barbell coach.

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Major Grant Broggi, SSC | September 29, 2021

I have learned quite a bit during my last ten years of barbell coaching. I first began by coaching young Marines, mostly men aged 18-22 before beginning to coach the public out of my garage, and then ultimately two gyms...yet, out of all the people I have coached, I have found that coaching my older clients is the most rewarding.

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Capt James Rodgers | September 22, 2021

Managing a large gaggle of students is enough to overwhelm the abilities of someone who is unprepared to apply additional structure to their teaching method, because they will lose control of the class fairly quickly if they try and teach the students like a collection of individuals.  

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