Deadlift Fine-tuning

Jul 23

The deadlift is arguably the most valuable exercise for sport performance (and life) improvement. It is extremely versatile and effective for pretty much everyone. But, not if you don't have excellent technique! This movement is a basic at SAPT and if you already lift with us you know you're getting the kind of very detailed fine-tuning shown in this video.

Don't Forget to Train Your Upper Back! While it may not be the fanciest or flashiest area to train, it's extremely important for our athletes. In fact, here at SAPT there's no such thing as too much upper back work. Proper upper back training can imp

Want consistent progress in your training? Overall, consistent progress requires a consistent effort towards having the best training sessions you can. That means making sure we get all of our training sessions in each week, staying positive if one

We gain a lot more from training than just quantitative metrics. The confidence, patience, and work ethic that is gained from training over an extended period of time is much more valuable than any performance or health metric. Going through this jou

Congrats to Coach Hunter on his first 500lb deadlift last week! We are looking at potentially posting more of our coaches training, is this something you all would be interested in? Please comment below to let us know if it is, or if there’s an

Please join us in congratulating Phoebe on committing to the University of Arkansas! Phoebe has been training with us for close to a year now, and is one of the hardest working and most focused clients we have. We will be sad to see her go when the t

Here at SAPT, coaches and interns train together 2-4 times a week. While this allows us to coach them on exercises and make sure they are learning the training process, this isn't the most important thing they learn from training with the coaches. Th

Sarah Walls

A little about me: I've worked in pretty much every corner of the fitness industry for about 10 years. I've had the great fortune of spending most of this time working with gifted athletes at every level. I've also had the great opportunity of designing and conducting research projects, writing occasionally for various publications and blogs, competing in powerlifting, and just generally having a killer time pursuing my passions wherever they may take me. Now I own two businesses: one is an athletic performance training company that I started in 2007 at age 26 and the other is a software company startup that was launched in 2014. Paramount to all the awesomeness of my professional career, is my family. My kids are a thrill and my husband continues to be my most critical and important supporter.

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