Yugen Personal Training

08/24/2021

Why box squats?🙃

Well it’s a safe and easy way to start overloading your body. It allows for your body to get prepared to handle heavier weight loads to help increase your squat max.🏋🏻‍♂️

Initially it’s less tension and stress on the knees as well. I get knee pain occasionally from wrestling and high impact sports🥲. Back squats take a lot of load off the quadriceps which lessens the load on the knee joint and distributes the weight more so to your posterior chain.👍🏼

Intentionally, in this particular back squat I set my feet closer to the box and sat on to the box. This allowed me to focus on handling overload in my erectors, increase explosiveness for at the bottom of my squat, and hip extensors strength for a better lockout at the top of my squat.👊🏼

Give them a try on your next leg day, if your an advanced lifter, don’t be afraid to go heavy!!👌🏼

07/06/2021

Looking for a great multifunctional back exercise!?😝 If you have access to a Ground Base squat/deadlift lunge at your gym, try this back combo out!

It’s a great warm up or finisher combo 😵 for the entire back! Start by going into a row to engage lats and inner back, stand up from row to intate a deadlift to engage spinal erectors, and finish with a shrug 🤷🏻‍♂️ to hit upper traps.

Repeat, Repeat, and Repeat 🔁 till your back is on fire 🔥!!

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06/16/2021

Loving the new Hammer Strength Belt Squat here !! This bad boy also has a weighted dip attachment with it and boy let me tell YOU, this sh*** hits different!💪🏼😆 TBH the Hammer Strength Belt Squat Weight holder was more than enough to kill my triceps, no need to add extra weight!😅 If you have one local in your gym, don’t be shy 🙈 give it a try!

04/22/2021

Trap bar jumps! One of my favorite leg exercises to increase speed and strength. It also improves force production and can increase your vertical jump significantly! I primarily use it to increase my heart rate to help improve my endurance and burn 🔥 some extra calories 🥵.

Give it a try if you dare 😈.

04/19/2021

One of the best ways to increase explosiveness on any compound lift (deadlifts are my favorite), is weight manipulation training. Having control over the weight and it’s speed can increase not only your strength, but most importantly your speed in which you can make the weight travel through space.

In this lift, I lowered the weight to be able to perform more reps and to better manipulate the speed and control of the weight. 5 slow, 10 explosive 🧨!!

Give it a try, guarantee your glutes will be on fire by the end 🔥.

07/25/2020

In regards to making your back wider 🙌🏼, you should solely focus on making a mind muscle connection to truly learn how to activate your latissimus dorsi. These are my 🔝 4 exercises that I’ve used and practiced making this mind muscle connection and thus far has given me a wider back 💪🏼.

03/22/2020

03/06/2020

In every lift, take time for mental preparation. The mind controls the body, which executes the lift. If you’re mindless and not focused, that’s when injury can occur. Prepare, lift with purpose, and stay focused 👌🏼.

02/23/2020

I just wanted to beat my numbers from last years competition, to show improvement and that hard work pays off. I managed just to do that and hell, I even was the runner up right behind .tn . Alongside that I got to experience such phenomenal support and love from friends, family, and clients. None of this would be possible if it wasn’t for them. What makes our team so powerful and influential is that we are passionate about anything we do, we just want to make each other great and others too.

02/13/2020

This isn’t just a job, it’s a passion, a lifestyle. I still pursue my fitness goals and won’t stop. So Stop saying you can’t, when you can. Stop making excuses and start doing. Make the change and be a better you.

01/07/2020

“Blood 🩸, Sweat 💧, and Respect. First two you give, last one you earn 👊🏼”. - The Rock

09/17/2019

New Max today on squat!! Went from 395 to 405!! 👊🏼 Not a super huge jump but re learning how to squat with added depth to my program has been a vigorous journey for me. More improvement to come, thanks for all the tips, tricks, and spots!💪🏼