Coach of the Decade: Greg Glassman

Plus: Is Lifting Heavy Weight Important For Building Muscle Size? [View this email in your browser]( [Is Lifting Heavy Weight Important For Building Muscle Size?]( There’s an ongoing debate on how important heavy weights are in order to get jacked. As with most trends, public opinion likes to cluster around the extremes. One day heavy weights are critical and the next they’re entirely unnecessary. Realistically, we need to have a more nuanced conversation about the merits and drawbacks to both high and low load approaches to hypertrophy. From there we can come up with some straightforward and practical recommendations that can be implemented into our training. [And, don't forget all the other good stuff...]( [7 Minute Hip And Shoulder Opening Yoga Flow]( Shoulders and hips. If I had a dollar for every time I have been asked how to open these two areas I would have a summer home. Shoulders and hips are the most mobile joints in the body and, therefore, are easily injured if not properly balanced with both strength and flexibility. These isometric stretches are great warm-up before overhead squats and snatch work. The most important part is to challenge yourself to pull both ends of the strap so that the muscles get the full opening effect while staying in a contracted state. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Website]( [Instagram]( [The Benefits Of Working On Your Explosive Power]( Most of us casual gym goers (and even high level athletes) don’t spend all that much time training to be more explosive and powerful. Instead, we devote much of our time in the to training gain strength, and we assume gaining strength will translate into being more explosive. This article details five of the exercises you can use to improve explosive power in both your upper body and lower body. The amount of control you will feel during general movements inside and outside of the gym will increase as you work on your explosive power. You will benefit from this, we promise. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Website]( [Instagram]( [For Coaches and Trainers Only]( If you're not all in on Greg Glassman and CrossFit, and may of you are not, then you might want to read this counterpoint. Coach of the Next Decade? Read: [An Antidote to CrossFit]( Copyright © 2019 Breaking Muscle, All rights reserved. Thanks for signing up on Breaking Muscle! Our mailing address is: Breaking Muscle 1710 Moorpark Road Suite 232Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](.