The Key To Perfecting Your Technique
Nailing your weightlifting technique and maximising your strength training comes down to one simple thing — NEVER accept anything less than the best.
Once you know the difference between right and wrong form, you’ll only ever choose one way. It won’t be a debate or discussion but rather a compulsion.
You’ll have a concrete understanding of what makes one technique better and know why one stands head and shoulders above the other.
It’s time to eliminate bad lifting techniques from your workouts and remove them from your reality forever.
In this article, I will show you how!
But first, a short word on what separates average lifters from the greatest.
The top lifters and strongest people in the world pride themselves on their technique.
It is the number one thing on their mind each and every training session, from start to finish.
They concentrate on every single aspect and obsess about all the small details when most overlook them. That’s how they got to the top!
By moving, lifting, and performing simple (and complex) exercises at a superior level to everyone else.
If you have aspirations to get stronger, more muscular, fitter, or leaner, you must abide by this time-tested principle.
Technique trumps everything. It is the literal foundation that everything else goes on top of.
Soft, squishy, and unstable surfaces crumble and fall to pieces whenever stress, strain or extra load is placed on them. Don’t let that happen to you…
It doesn’t matter what exercise it is, irrespective of your goal, and regardless of your experience level.
Your entire focus must remain locked solely on top technique. This is what it means for you:
You cannot let mediocre reps stand.
You can’t ignore incorrect execution, ever.
You cannot let average performance creep in.
You can’t skip the basics and go to the advanced stuff.
The one thing I consistently come back to, to curb this, is concentration.
Reminding my students to pay attention. Telling them to “Switch On” before the set starts.
Giving them a heads-up that the rest period is almost over. Getting them to focus on their setup.
Prompting them with one or two things (maximum) to think about. So they know where their head is and concentration needs to be in advance, not after the fact.
Technique, technique, technique.
Below is the result, a glimpse of my students’ strength training in action. Look at the tight shapes, straight lines, and correct alignment of each exercise.
As a strength coach and personal trainer, my priority is firmly fixed on the outcome of each exercise. I want to see excellent movement patterns that are strong and don’t break down.
That’s how you know if you have good technique or not.
Does it stand up to the elements that impact and affect the level of performance, such as load (weight), volume (reps), and fatigue…
Or not?
There is a list of things that matter, and criteria to qualify them.
The shape of your body and joint angles, whether it meets the movement standards, and whether or not it looks right.
I don’t care how hard an exercise is.
I don’t concern myself with the difficulty.
I don’t worry about how challenging the work is.
It’s all irrelevant and unimportant compared to this.
…it’s not about WHAT you do but HOW you do it that matters.
You need a process to follow so you can do just that. Listen to the podcast below and find out what it means so you can upgrade your current strength training routine.
My M.C.I Framework is a system I created to help standardise your strength training. So that more of your reps look similar than different.
Ideally, you want them all to look the same.
Every subsequent rep you do becomes a carbon copy, a replica, of the previous.
Resulting in identical repetitions, duplicating high-quality reps by design, not default.
It’s meticulously thought out and planned in advance, not a surprise or shock.
This planning and systemised process is how you guarantee you hit the absolute best technique in every strength training exercise you do.
Below are the cheat codes for having all of your reps meet this highest standard I am referring to.
These posters are placed around Fulla SC HQ as a reminder for myself and my students: This is what matters!
When your environment is set up and constructed with reminders, hints, signs, and warnings such as this, you can’t help but execute at a high level.
That’s the difference and the separator in terms of results. It’s what can take your technique from Shit to Suck, and from Good to Great.
Are you tired of wishing and hoping your technique is correct? If you want your reps fact-checked and verified to make sure they are done right, it’s time.
Instead of crossing your fingers and relying on what you’ve seen on YouTube videos and social media for “advice”. It’s time you got some direct feedback and had a coach’s eye look at your technique firsthand, in person.
Someone who has thousands of reps under his belt and over a decade-plus worth of experience to draw from.
Come in for an Initial Consultation and allow me to show and tell you what you need to know.
I won’t waste your time. And it’ll be worth every dollar!
If you don’t think it is, you can take me up on my Money Back Guarantee.