“Good Form” is a Cringe-Worthy Term

People are too quick to use the word “form” when describing the quality of an exercise’s performance. If you performed it well, you showed good form. If you performed it poorly, you showed bad form. If they saw something that needs correcting, you’ll be told to “lower the weight and work on form”.

It becomes this catch all term that over-simplifies the evaluation of exercise performance. Things should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.

In this post I demonstrate how to dig in a bit deeper through a discussion of tension and technique that should help you to analyze your exercise performance and that of others with more value to offer.