Excellent cues (as per usual with Mr. Ranfone!!!) Extension onto the toes is important, as it allows the lifter to finish with the bar moving vertically rather then keeping the feet planted which can tend to cause you to bring the hips into the bar. This bumps it out away from the body making all sorts of awful crashing and crappy racking of the bar. I instruct my lifters to keep the bar as close to their bodies as possible. A great cue to maintain proper foot pressure that I use is to push the floor down, this helps you use the legs instead of the back, and pull the bar with the fists (which I learned from Mark Cannella), which helps keep it close too and gives you a good extra tug on the bar with the whole upper back rather then just the upper traps when you “shrug”. Good stuff Todd!!!!!
Excellent cues (as per usual with Mr. Ranfone!!!) Extension onto the toes is important, as it allows the lifter to finish with the bar moving vertically rather then keeping the feet planted which can tend to cause you to bring the hips into the bar. This bumps it out away from the body making all sorts of awful crashing and crappy racking of the bar. I instruct my lifters to keep the bar as close to their bodies as possible. A great cue to maintain proper foot pressure that I use is to push the floor down, this helps you use the legs instead of the back, and pull the bar with the fists (which I learned from Mark Cannella), which helps keep it close too and gives you a good extra tug on the bar with the whole upper back rather then just the upper traps when you “shrug”. Good stuff Todd!!!!!