Uplift Boulder

🎥 UPLIFT UNFILTERED 🎥

This week we asked some of our coaches a very important question:
What's your most useless talent?

🎳 Julia is apparently weirdly good at bowling

🚪 Cassidy casually informed us that she's really good at getting into places when she's locked out. We *think* she meant her house, but we chose not to ask follow-up questions

🍊 Coach Cam can catch things in his mouth. Kind of cool, pretty useless

🎬 Devin's useless talent is remembering completely unnecessary pop culture facts (if you know Devin, you know how accurate this is)

🎥 Ross's talent? Knowing all of Devin's movie quotes. Which is impressive considering Devin has about 47,000 of them

Strong and capable? Absolutely

Normal? Debatable

A quick tip for the Turkish Get-Up Sit-Up 👇

If you're trying to figure out what weight to use, a good rule of thumb is this:
👉 It should probably be heavier than what you'd use for a strict overhead press

"How is that possible?" you may ask. "It's already such a difficult exercise, and you want me to go HEAVIER?"

Well, the TGU Sit Up isn't really an upper body exercise

Yes, you're holding a kettlebell overhead, but your arm isn't actively pressing it. The elbow stays locked, the shoulder stays stacked underneath the weight, and your job is to maintain that stable position throughout the movement

The actual work is coming from:
✔️ Your torso
✔️ Your obliques
✔️ Your hips
✔️ Your ability to transfer force through your body while keeping the kettlebell overhead

If you're choosing your weight based on what you can press (or going even lighter), you may be undershooting

Find a weight that challenges your ability to stay stacked, stable, and controlled throughout the movement, and remember, don't throw the weight forward in an effort to sit up. That'll just make things harder than need-be

The Offset Landmine Goblet Squat is a simple way to make a familiar movement a bit more demanding

Mechanically, it’s still a Goblet Squat:
• Sit down between the hips
• Stay stacked through the torso
• Drive through the feet
• Own the bottom position

But because the load is offset, your body now has to resist twisting and turning away from the load

That means:
🔥 More oblique involvement
🔥 More trunk stability demand
🔥 More awareness/control through the squat
🔥 Better ability to create and maintain position under asymmetrical load

Instead of just moving weight, you’re learning to control force and stay organized while the squat tries to pull you out of position

In Elevated Strength this month, we'll be incorporating heavy Bench Press iso holds using 100–120% of someone’s working weight 👀

The goal?
👉 Build confidence handling heavier loads
👉 Improve positional stability and tension
👉 Potentially break through plateaus by exposing the nervous system to heavier weights *without* actually pressing them

Sometimes getting stronger isn’t just about your muscles — it’s about teaching your body what it’s capable of handling