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7 Exercise Cues: Cue 1 (Chest/upper Body)

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7 Exercise Cues

Cue 1 (Chest/upper body)


Going back to this situation the better cue would be to lift your sternum or chest bone. If you
imagine the top of your sternum as the rim of a glass of water you would want to make sure that
your glass didn’t tip forward and spill out the water. If you lift your sternum to level off the glass
and avoid tipping, you won’t just fix your shoulder posture but you will get your shoulder blades to
sit back and down against your rib cage rather than artificially pinched.

Cue 2 (Back/upper body)


The next best cue you can use when lifting is to pull with your elbows (lead with elbows, use
hands as hooks) when doing any pulling exercise for your back. For example, if you are doing a lat
pulldown or even a pullup, the best way to initiate the movement is by concentrating on the
movement of the elbows. They should be the driver of the lift rather than the hands. This is easier
said however as we tend to focus on the hands and what we are holding when we move our
arms. This sets up the likelihood that you will pull too much with your forearms and too little with
the muscles you are trying to work.

Cue 3 (Legs/lower body)


For the lower body, particularly with squats and deadlifts where people encounter pain in their
knees hips and back from having flat feet, you will want to push out with your ankles and press
big toe into the floor. This is a great way to dynamically fix your arch and create a better
alignment of the lower leg during the descent. Since this is one big kinetic chain, a better
alignment here will put the knees, hips and lower back in a better position to operate safely.

Cue 4 (Upper body)


Tight through torso. Pull down and squeeze chest whenever holding barbells or any weight in
front of you with hands.

Cue 5 (lower body)


Moving on, two other issues in the lower body (deadlift or any lower body exercise) are to
a. Squeeze your cheeks to finish hip extension and
b. Hide your hands when trying to establish a proper hip hinge on your lifts.
Each of these is crucial to mastering the mechanics of the pelvis and lumbar region when
lowering your body to the floor in any leg movement or even thruster.

Cue 6 (upper body)


Finally, learn to squeeze the bar or dumbbells when lifting. This is often something that is
overlooked and it is costing you energy that could be directed through your hands and into your
arms for more upper body stabilizer activity. Experiment with this in your very next set of any
upper body exercise and you will feel the difference on your very first rep.

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