Biomechanics principles you can actually use in the gym.
Fix your thoracic spine rotation.
Jordan Shallow
February 25 2026
Thoracic rotation is driven by distinct muscular action at the top and bottom of the ribcage: the obliques act on the lower ribs, while the serratus anterior and rhomboids act on the upper ribs.
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Fix your thoracic spine rotation.
Jordan Shallow
February 25 2026
Thoracic rotation is driven by distinct muscular action at the top and bottom of the ribcage: the obliques act on the lower ribs, while the serratus anterior and rhomboids act on the upper ribs.
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Arm path: unquestionably the most crucial part of back training.
Jordan Shallow
February 11 2026
Back training adheres to a hierarchy of training variables: arm path, loading modality, resistance profiles, scapular mechanics, strength curves, and more. Arm path sits at the top of this hierarchy.
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You don't need “glute activation”, you just need a stable pelvis.
Jordan Jiunta
February 03 2026
Bad glute activation is never a consequence of the muscle not being neurologically “switched on”. The glutes are crazy strong, capable of producing huge amounts of force. The heart of the issue, however, is that this force needs a safe way to be transferred to the ground and to the load.
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Programming Push Day
Jordan Shallow
January 29 2026
Targeted musculature, type of stimulus, training frequency, mobility limitations, concurrent pull sessions: These factors inform how to select exercises, order them within a workout, and set correspondent volume and intensity parameters.
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Pinpointing recovery timelines to compound faster progress.
Jordan Jiunta
January 22 2026
Physiological recovery: what happens, how long it takes, and when to train next.
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Hiding Rehab Work in Training: Outsmarting Apprehension.
Jordan Jiunta
January 07 2026
The timeless art of dressing up the “thing they need” as the “thing they want.”
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A simple ankle mobility framework.
Jordan Shallow
December 30 2025
"You can't go somewhere you already are": The counterintuitive approach to ankle mobility.
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Reshaping pull day: less warm-up, more full send.
Jordan Shallow
December 19 2025
Let’s be deliberate with pull day exercise selection, sequencing, and execution.
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Fix your hip internal rotation
Jordan Jiunta
December 11 2025
Restricted hip internal rotation means leaving lower body gains on the table. As a solution, stretching won’t cut it. The neural mechanism behind hip IR restrictions requires developing the ability to keep your pelvis in one place.
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Stop leaking gains in dips, decline bench, and cable flys.
Jordan Shallow
November 26 2025
In spite of a widespread hyperfixation on nailing the perfect arm angle, lagging development of the "lower" (or "costal") division of the pec is exceedingly common amongst the bodybuilding crowd. The missing ingredient here is costal rib position: the key lynchpin of creating pec tension.
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