Gaby’s Tea Time — The One-Second Fix for Better Squats and Pulls

Today I’ll show you how to improve the structural quality of your squat, deadlift, and Olympic lifts — in one second.

Just by lifting your toes up.

Yes. That’s it.

Why it works

Most people think their weight is balanced.

It isn’t.

Humans live forward — we look forward, work forward, move forward. Over time, the front of the body tightens and the back weakens. If the posterior chain is not maintained, gravity pulls the structure forward.

When that forward bias accumulates — especially with age and poor training — the body drifts anteriorly.

The result:

• Collapsed foot arch

• Quad-dominant loading

• Distorted vertical stack under heavy load

And once the base shifts forward, every lift leaks force.

The cue

Just Lift Your Toes Up.

Place your body weight 50% on the heels and 50% on the balls of the feet.

The pressure settles naturally over the mid-foot.

What actually happens

When you lift your toes and redistribute pressure:

• The foot arch activates and strengthens

• The centre of mass shifts back to mid-foot

• You anchor into the floor

• The base of your vertical axis resets

When the base is correct, the structure above reorganises.

No extra effort.

No complicated correction.

Try it

Use it in your squat.

Your deadlift.

Your Olympic lifts.

You will feel the difference immediately:

More stable.

More solid.

More transferable force.

Final principle

Feet are not passive.

They are the first input into the system.

If you cannot control pressure, you cannot control force.

PS

This is a cue — not a solution.

If you rely on it long term, you have missed the point. It is a temporary intervention to create awareness and immediate change in pressure.

The real work is building structurally strong feet and restoring full-body alignment capacity.