The box jump is a complex movement, and its often oversimplified in both performance and programming. Today’s post is addressing ONE way to progress the box jump. Before even doing a box jump, you’d need to work on LANDING mechanics, and then jumping to a box you can easily clear (focusing on getting TALL) rather […]

The growing popularity of building your glutes via the barbell hip thrust is great. But I want you to maximize your potential strength and muscle growth as much as you can control. That comes LARGELY from your set up. Common hip thrust set up mistakes: Starting with a bench that is too high – if […]

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 […]