This statement can be over used and maybe not taken to heart, but everyone should be Doing what they Say & Saying what they Do. In other words Practice What You Preach.
I was reminded of this yesterday and for me sometimes I do need to be hit over the head with a baseball bat or barbell to have it sink in. Monday WOD Deadlift 1X7: As coaching I noticed some difficulties developing around the 3rd - 4th round with 2 athletes. Same comment to both, prep yourself as approaching the bar still upright, tight core, breath control, weight in heels, then go to the set position & once set LIFT do not wait around down there thinking the bar up, just GO.
Both athletes made the next rounds look like the weight had gone down vs. up, this continued until they reached their max, which was also a PR for both. Later that afternoon as I was preparing to attack my achilles heel, the dreaded deadlift, stretching out my lower back after a Sunday of heavy gardening and thinking it is time to move beyond my lowly deadlift max, not even = to my back squat max. So how do I approach the bar on lift #1 through lift #7? Just like I told my fellow athletes earlier that day and guess what, I finally felt like I was controlling the bar, so much so I increased my max by 15# and now I can actually start to see a 1.5X body weight max deadlift in my future.
Say = Do, Do = Say
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