Let Yourself Be Great: The Hardest Choice an Athlete Can Make
A year ago, I had a conversation with one of my longtime athletes—someone I’ve worked with for nearly seven years. The talk was simple but real: “If this is the goal, you’ve got to start making choices to match it.”
Breaking Down the Olympic Lifts: Teaching Progressions for Coaches
One of the most common questions I get is, “Where do you start when teaching the Olympic lifts?” The real answer is: it depends.
Positive Language Cueing: How to Coach for Confidence
One of the biggest shifts I made in my coaching was realizing that most athletes already know what they’re doing wrong. What they really need is help finding how to fix it—and confidence that they can.
Why Everyone Should Learn to Squat Well
Out of everything we teach, the squat might be the most versatile movement. You get so much return from it—whether you're chasing PRs as a weightlifter or just trying to move and feel better in everyday life. The squat challenges range of motion, demands stability, and teaches control. You can load it heavy, move it fast, modify it a dozen different ways, and it’s still going to give back.
How I Structure My Week (And How You Can Adapt It)
There was a point in my training where I thought the more time I spent in the gym, the better I’d get. More volume, more sessions, more work—especially during my CrossFit days, and honestly, even early in my weightlifting journey. But that approach didn’t give me the return I was looking for. Eventually, I burned myself out, ran into injuries, and started to see that I wasn’t improving—I was just doing more. That’s when I started to really understand the value of awareness.
The First Step in Becoming a Better Athlete: Building Awareness
There was a point in my training where I thought the more time I spent in the gym, the better I’d get. More volume, more sessions, more work—especially during my CrossFit days, and honestly, even early in my weightlifting journey. But that approach didn’t give me the return I was looking for. Eventually, I burned myself out, ran into injuries, and started to see that I wasn’t improving—I was just doing more. That’s when I started to really understand the value of awareness.