CST Free Weight Exercises By Scott Sonnon

Happy Holidays, everyone!

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There is an ebook / fact sheet on this here

Sleep, exercise, contribution, diet etc…….

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Merry Christmas! Buon Natale! Frohe Weihnachten! God Jul Och Gott Nytt År! Feliz Navidad! Mo’adim Lesimkha! Boas Festas! However you say it, happiest, healthiest, warmest wishes from the Sonnons!

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That is it for a few days. I’m off to battle snow. Have a good one

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TACFIT Grappler 1E Workout: Succinct, Simple, Explosive
Special thanks to CST Head Coach Mike Locke!

http://www.TACFIT.tv

Go as light weight as you must in order to explosively accelerate!
And remember TWENTY ROUNDS non-stop!
For Time, 20 Rounds Non-Stop:

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One of the most common issues we see in both athletes and our general population clients is a lack of ankle mobility - and more specifically, dorsiflexion range-of-motion.
For just about everything in life - from sprinting, to lunging, to squatting - we need a certain amount of dorsiflexion (think of how far the knees can [...]
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Following on from the piece I put up a couple of weeks ago after the seminar with mc, I found this article by Eric Cobb on Dragon Door.

Reflexive Lifting: How To Make Your Neural Reflexes Work With You And Not Against You!

In almost all sports, including lifting heavy weights, the eyes play a vital role. While a heavy deadlift doesn’t require much in the way of great vision, it does require great eye position! Let me explain.

The muscles that surround the eyes, called the extraocular muscles, are all innervated by small nerve endings. These small nerve endings provide propioceptive (body awareness) input to various neuromotor sensors in the spinal cord and the brain. The primary reason for this is that the eyes and the inner ear work together to create balance and stability in virtually all of our movements.

How does this apply to your lifts? It’s quite simple, really. The small nerve endings in the extraocular muscles actually create full body muscular responses to help guide movement. Practically speaking, what this means is that if your eyes are moved up, the small nerve endings in the extraocular muscles facilitate the extensor muscles of the body, creating a simultaneous inhibition of the flexor muscles. Conversely, the eyes down position will create flexor facilitation and extensor inhibition. Put simply, the eyes lead the body.

Make eye position your first priority. Understand that eyes up = extensor facilitation and that eyes down = flexor facilitation. Depending upon your personal challenges in your lifts, use the correct eye position to facilitate the movement you most need to make. It is important to play with these concepts in a variety of lifts to feel the effects.

The article is pretty interesting as Cobb applies this principle to lifts

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