Jake Baxter Training

Feeling tight from all the squatting, deadlifting and running?

Start moving in the positions you’re missing out on from the compounds. Teaching the body to rotate, flex, extend and bed has been a game changer for giving mg hips and back some love!

If you struggle with speed under the bar in a squat clean this video is for you

It’s not that you aren’t fast enough it’s just harder when:
A: you pull the bar too high
B: the bar is too far away from you

Hit SAVE to remember these two drills!

These are the 2 drills you need:
Tall Clean: to work on the pull under the bar without it being too high
Tempo Clean: to work on keeping the bar closer to the body and the timing of when to extend

Bonus tip:
If your grip is too wide it can effect how fast you can pull your helps around the bar.

Technique is built by doing the reps over and over again consistently and making them look the same.

There is a skill to lifting heavy, and that does need practice, but if you're trying to build consistency in a movement, your best range for hitting technique work is between 65-80%.

5 weeks into my new block I’m happy with how I’m moving to start building over the next 4 weeks 🤟🏻

Could this be why you’re not progressing in CrossFit?

Looking for the 6 week focus or add on into your current program (that isn’t getting you the result you want) is silently killing your progress.

The problem with doing this is we add it into a programme that isn't built around improving that weakness, and we are adding more training in to fix a short-term problem.

When you're trying to focus on a certain area, like strength for example, the conditioning that you do needs to be built around giving you the energy to improve that strength. You would have to dial back on certain areas to focus on the strength.

What I encourage people to do instead is:
1. Run a test week.
2. Find your strengths and weaknesses.
3. Do enough of your strengths to maintain them and build everything else around improving your weaknesses.
4. Then you can bring everything back into a more balanced approach once you are at the level and doing the things you want to do.

The core does more than just brace during a heavy back squat or deadlift

The midline and muscles around our spine allow you to bend, extend, move laterally and rotate as well as brace to create stability.

If you only train to resist movement don’t be surprised when your back locks the moment you twist or lean in a way that isn’t a straight line.

Which of these are you not doing and need to add into your weekly training?

How can you bottle the feeling of slamming a barbell and make it last forever?

Asking for a friend

Unloading a barbell is the worst part of the session, this hack takes the weights off the bar in less than a second 🫠