How To Perform Kettlebell Cleans Without Destroying Your Forearms Are you tired of performing Kettlebell Cleans and destroying your forearms? Maybe you even avoid the exercise because of the pain when you perform a poor quality clean. While Kettlebell Cleans are...
The Align Fitness “Go-To” Stretches Over the years, we have progressively recommended few and fewer traditional stretches for our clients. Research and hands-on experience show that stretching individual muscles rarely (if ever) improves our mobility,...
Are you scared to squat? Think you’ll hurt your knees? Well… you might be right if you don’t have a good understanding of the fundamentals. We’re here to help! In this post we’ll help you understand how deep you should go, how to have...
Swing kettlebells? That’s cool. BUT… are you doing them correctly? We’ve seen more bad than good swings over the years. Those bad swings were the inspiration for this post on the 2-handed kettlebell swing. In this post we will teach you set up,...
Do you have back pain when you deadlift? Maybe you avoid deadlifting because “it will hurt your back”? We can help At Align Fitness we deadlifts and believe success or “failure” (low back pain) usually comes down to technique. Let’s start with how you set up. You...
Align Fitness Turkish Get-Ups The Best Exercise You’re Not Doing For Your Shoulders Part 3 We have already discussed how to perform the Get-Up along with a variety of cuing tips and quick and easy fixes to common mistakes (see our last 2 blogs here: Part 1 Part 2)....
I went into Steel Mace Training with the wrong mindset. Completely wrong if i’m honest. With over 20 years in the field (strength and conditioning), my thought process was simple. Take what you have learned in other areas and apply it the steel mace. I would...
Align Fitness Training For Fat Loss Doing More With Less You know that friend you have who always likes to make everything more complicated? Instead of taking the path of least resistance they always seem to find a way complicate and confuse the task/process. Well…...
In our last installment of the Kettlebell Series we addressed The Half Get-Up. We discussed how to set up, the initial steps, and some coaching fixes to correct common errors in the initial phases. In this piece, we will thoroughly cover how to make it all the way to...
The Turkish Get-Up is awesome and is the best exercise your are not doing. Legend claims It’s at least 200 years old and is thought to have been created for soldiers fighting with shields and swords as a means to get from their back to a standing position when an...
