Jesse Burdick helps Max Aita with his Sumo Deadlift form. Biggest issue here: keeping a more neutral spine. Errors: hips to low, he squatted the weight of the floor too big of an arch in lower back Fixes: packing the neck locks thoracic spine focus on getting the hips just low enough to grab the bar shoulders over […]
Head Position for Weightlifting
Kirk on keeping the head in neutral position. Keeping a neutral spine is better to deliver force into the bar. This is because it transfers the power better without losing a percentage of it through flex or excessive arch/curve. The comments I get most by looking downwards or forward are: Better stability and ability to […]
Good Head Position for Dips with Neck Packing
Kelly Starrett and Carl Paoli talk about the head position in the dip and its role in getting into good shoulder position with a stable, neutral thoracic spine. Basically, you should be packing the neck just like in deadlifts. What is packing the neck? Cervical retrusion with capital flexion.Or as Charlie Weingroff said “It basically looks like you are making an […]