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Before you are able to pull yourself up and over the bar, you need to know what it feels like to be in the top position and what type of coordination you need in the hand, shoulder, and back to lower yourself back down. This exercise is a great way to develop the skill, strength, and efficiency you…

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The pull-up is an exercise that is challenging. One of the largest challenges comes from understanding how to coordinate the the pull of the arms with the action in the shoulders and torso. In this video, I break down common sticking points in the pull-up, with practical ways to break through those…
This one only requires you and a little imagination. It's a drill I use with clients across a wide range of ages and abilities — and because there's no equipment involved, it's easy to scale on the spot. The goal is speed and directional change, which are the two things that actually make something…
The third and final exercise from Spinal Intelligence is deceptively simple: move from hands and knees to seated, and pay attention to what your spine is doing along the way. That’s it. No special equipment, no particular shape to achieve. What makes it interesting is the middle part — where you ge…
There’s a word that gets thrown around a lot in lifting: leverage. People say it constantly, but the way it’s used often doesn’t match what’s actually happening mechanically. So let’s slow it down. When you pick something heavy up off the floor, you have three variables in play: your load (the bar)…
Most people think of hand balancing — or even just pressing into a surface — as a hand and shoulder problem. It isn’t. It’s a spine problem. This two-minute wall drill will show you what I mean. You’ll start with your pinky finger edges against the wall, ribs dropped toward the floor, and then slow…
A listener question about how to explain Pilates to students who ask whether it “counts” as strength training sparked this short but clarifying episode. The answer? No — and that’s actually great news. Jenn breaks down why Pilates and yoga don’t need to be strength training to be valuable, why stre…
Most people think of their hands and their spine as separate things. This two-minute wall drill makes the connection undeniable — you’ll feel exactly when your hands start to take weight, and why it has almost nothing to do with your hands. All you need is a wall. Start with your pinky finger edges…
Most of what we’ve been told about “good” and “bad” posture doesn’t reflect how the body actually works. Your spine is constantly adjusting based on your feet, your shoulders, what you’re carrying. Posture is transitory, not fixed. This video walks you through exactly how that works, with demos you…
There’s a piece of squat history I find genuinely interesting, and it changes how you think about the whole exercise. The back squat — the version most people mean when they say “squats” — was essentially invented by a man who loaded the bar in the bottom position. He’d get under it from below, set…
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