Brandon Smitley's Quick Picks
I’ve been an avid reader of EVERY article for roughly the past 4 years, and it’s the sole place that I go to increase my knowledge base, lifting, coaching, and personal growth. If you aren’t reading the articles on this site, you are really doing yourself a disservice!
How to Find Your Perfect Bench Press Grip
Your ideal width will be determined by several key anatomical measurements.
A Case for Wide Squats
Squats should be looked at as more of a movement, not simply a specific muscle developer, and the entire body should be involved in the lift.
Disable Your Strength Limits, Focus on Pain
Take the time to fix your aliments and you’ll be thanking yourself for those three weeks that gave you continued years of pain-free training.
Wide or Narrow Grip Pull-Downs/Pull-Ups: Does It Make a Difference?
Wide for wide, in for in, in for out, out for in—we’ve heard all the catch phrases for where to hold the bar on a lat pull-down.
Facts Needed to Prevent Hamstring Strains
Once you’ve experienced a hamstring strain, you wish nothing more than for it to never have happened or at least for it to never happen again.
Three-Dimensional Hip Strength for Performance and Injury Prevention
A stable and optimal hip can produce force in all three dimensions of movement—flexion/extension, abduction/adduction, and internal/external rotation.
Death of Static Stretching?
Developing an active and full range of motion (ROM) in our relationships between muscles and joints is vastly important for optimum performance.