Tectonic Strength & Conditioning

The movements you will meet in class

Foundations teaches all of these in five one-hour sessions with a coach. Use this page to decide where to start: if most of these are new to you, or you would want a coach watching your first reps, start with Foundations. If you already own most of them with good form, you can go straight to a membership.

Five series, 31 videos

Squat, Hinge & Pull, Press, Clean, Snatch. Each Foundations session covers one series; the order depends on you and your coach.

How to use this page

Watch a few from each series. Honest answer to one question: could you do this today with the form you see here?

Not sure?

Book a free trial class and let a coach tell you. That is the fastest answer there is.

Squat series

The pattern you will see the most at Tectonic, in the most variations. Air squat up to thruster, it is the same shapes stacked up.

Air squat
Back squat (fundamentals)
Back squat (details)
Front squat
Overhead squat
Wall ball
Thruster

Hinge & Pull series

Where most people find out they are stronger than they thought, and where position matters most.

Russian kettlebell swing
American kettlebell swing
Sumo deadlift high pull
Deadlift (fundamentals)
Deadlift (details)
Ring row
Strict pullup
Kipping pullup
Kipping toes to bar

Press series

Where overhead confidence gets built. It turns up everywhere: jerks, wall balls, putting something heavy on a high shelf.

Strict / shoulder press
Push press
Push jerk
Pushup
Bench press (fundamentals)
Bench press (details)

Clean series

The first of the two Olympic lifts: a hinge, a pull and a front squat stitched together.

High Hang Power Clean
Mid-Hang Power Clean
Power Clean (from the floor)
Mid-Hang Clean
Just to watch: Lu Xiaojun cleaning 201kg

Snatch series

The most technical thing we do. It stays a work in progress for everybody in the gym, coaches included.

High Hang Power Snatch
Mid-Hang Power Snatch
Power Snatch (from the floor)
Just to watch: Mattie Rogers snatching at the 2015 World Championships