Free upper body warm up logic for horizontal pressing day coming your way First off – you’re doing yourself a disservice if you’re not incorporating mobility (control in your end ranges) into your warm up. In Built By Annie we have a full body daily warm up + “movement prep.” What you’re seeing here is […]

Muscle Memory is a lot more complicated than the term implies. Before we dive in, let’s first define muscle memory – “the ability to reproduce a particular movement without conscious thought, acquired as a result of frequent repetition of that movement.” Even this post will be a bit oversimplified. There are just lots of aspects […]

Sharing 4 training methods for intermediate lifters! Once a lifter has gone through a few bouts of linear progression, what’s next? They’ve got a 1-3 training years under their belt. They’re familiar with different exercise variations, tempos and working with percentages or RPE. Do they just keep repeating the same linear progressions? Or hop to […]

Four ways to determine what weight you should use If your coach isn’t writing in your weights, you’ve got to figure it out for yourself. This ability comes with experience, but these should help. % of max lift – An equation that is used to calculate the weight you should use for a given number […]

Split squats two ways – Rear foot elevated vs Front foot elevated. Split squats can be performed MANY different ways. We can change them via foot position or elevation and how we load them. So, before we dive into the brain gains… Important things to note in this post: 🦵🏽A split squat, by nature, is […]

Plyometrics are often misunderstood and misused. While I don’t believe much in fitness is black and white or as polarizing as the industry likes to make it…I do think plyometric training falls into a category that needs more nuance and explanation. Let’s dive in to the purpose of plyometrics, as well and how and when […]