Strength, balance, flexibility, and coordination are all factors that come into play when preforming a pistol. This unilateral movement allows us to identify any sort of dissimilarities among our right and left sides. This week we bring you a couple drills to improve your pistol and structural balance.

This weeks big tip breaks down local muscle endurance and how we at BRUTE like to incorporate it into our training to increase our athletes threshold. Jake Hutton breaks down an example similar to what you may receive on our programming.

This week we show you a few drills that we like to include in our warm ups in order to maintain and improve groin health. Give it a shot!

This week we bring you a drill that will force you to engage your scapula and remain upright as you descend for an overhead squat. Give it a shot!

This week we bring you a reactive neuromuscular training drill that we use to mimic the more commonly heard "push your knees out" cue. This type of drill offers immediate feedback for the athlete as they descend into a squat and allows them to continually track their knees over their toes thereby producing the least internal load on the passive knee structures

“Son, there will come a moment in your life when you are hanging from a cliff in the middle of a sword fight. If you cannot quickly pull yourself up from the ledge, your enemy will chop your fingers off in one swift motion, and you will fall to your death on the rocks below.”