Bar Patterns Part 7 – Good Mornings
Part 7 of our Bar Pattern Series
Bar Patterns Part 6 – Bent Over Row
Bar Patterns Part 6 – Bent Over Row
Grasp the bar with a clean grip. This is determined by having your fingers just outside of your shoulders while the bar is resting on the front of your shoulders, like you are setting up for a front squat (this is also called the “rack position”). Begin with the bar hanging in front of your hips and standing with your feet hip width apart. This next piece might sound like an optional step, but it is paramount when it comes to performing...
Bar Patterns Part 5: Romanian Deadlift
Bar Patterns: Romanian Deadlift
Part 5 in the series
Grasp the bar with a clean grip. This is determined by having your fingers just outside of your shoulders while the bar is resting on the front of your shoulders like you are setting up for a front squat (this is also called the “rack position”). Begin with the bar hanging in front of your hips and standing with your feet hip-width apart. This next piece might sound like an optional step, but it is paramount when it comes to...
Bar Patterns Part 4 – Overhead Squat
Bar Patterns Part 4 – Overhead Squat
Grasp the bar with a snatch grip. To find your snatch grip hold the bar at waist level with locked-out elbows. Slowly adjust your grip in or out, while still maintaining straight arms, until the bar hangs at the height of your crease (The crease is the point where your upper leg joins together with your torso. The line that is formed here in your hips is the crease). Be sure you have an even grip on the bar, you do not want the bar either off to...
Bar Patterns Part 3, Front Squat
Bar Patterns Part 3, Front Squat
Grasp the bar with a clean grip. This is determined by having your fingers just outside of your shoulders while the bar is resting in the “rack position”. The rack position creates a stable platform for the bar to sit on the front of your shoulders while not loading your wrists too much. Here your elbows should be directed inwards and upwards so your upper arm is parallel to the floor. Keep your hands lightly holding the bar and all of your...
Bar Patterns: Back Squat
Part 2 in the Work Out series
Bar Patterns in Strength Training
Bar Patterns in Strength Training
Part 1 in the series
Establishing proper movement patterns in our sports is one of the keys to success in reaching our goals. The human body has seven primary movement patterns that are refined throughout life: gait (walking or running), squatting, lunging, pulling, pushing, pressing (overhead) and twisting. Your brain is very efficient and one of its objectives is to record and recall movement patterns that make life easier, allowing it more...
10 Easy Things You Can Do To Improve Performance
10 tips from Chris Hughes
Maintaining Strength & Fitness Levels During the In-Season
Chris Hughes drops some worthwhile knowledge to keep all of us healthy and engaged in our passions.
Next Steps in Pre-Season Training
Pre-season strength and conditioning is now entering the final phase, it’s time for unilateral loading exercises. We all are very familiar with bilateral strength training, simply put it means you are working both limbs/sides simultaneously. Either both legs or both arms...
Fall Strength and Conditioning
Fall strength and conditioning are in full swing! Starting just after the start of the school year, Athletes and Coaches have been busy at the Copper Mountain Clubhouse.
In October our Thursday’s activity will switch from Frisco field sports to the Silverthorne recreation center for gymnastic. Gymnastics is a foundational skill for all athletics.