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Hey, what's up podcast listeners? Thank you so much for checking out today's show. This is episode

137 of the Squat University Podcasts. The goal with each and every one of these

shows is to bring you as much value-packed content to help you decrease your body's aches and pains,

help you move better in the gym and in life, and help you reach your true athletic potential.

Today I'm joined once again by two-time Olympian Chad Vaughn and we're going to be talking all

about overhead lifting. Now, just as a general piece of advice for a lot of people that are doing overhead

lifting whether you are just going to the gym and you want to do push presses overhead dumbbell

presses overhead maybe you're not into crossfit or Olympic weight lifting yet the first thing

I want to talk about is one of the

major restrictors behind optimal technique when lifting overhead. And then what we're going to do is

we're going to go and take a little bit of a deeper dive with Chad into some technique points,

some different drills that you can do specific for those that are wanting to really

optimize their jerk. So you're a crossfitter, you're an Olympic weightlifter, and you want

to get the jerk portion of your cleaning jerk better. We're going to talk about how to optimize

that. But first and foremost, let's take a little bit more of a general step back. And this goes

for anyone who wants to lift overhead. Now, there's two things that

I want to point out. The first one is the most common mobility restriction. Most people that come to

see me in physical therapy, maybe they've developed some shoulder pain or they just have some

problems lifting overhead. They feel stiff. They feel tight. What I do is I break down

the body systematically. We look at what are the major restrictors of overhead motion?

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