In CrossFit Games, Olympic Lifts
May 16, 2012
Olympian Chad Vaughn offers tips for attacking the heavy dumbbell snatches and hang cleans at the Reebok CrossFit Games Regionals.
I remember being very surprised when the Regional events included heavy dumbbell snatches.
My trade is, of course, getting a barbell over my head with two hands, not raising a dumbbell with one, so I was actually unsure that I could even handle the 70-pounder. Obviously, I had no choice but to try, and in the end it actually wasn’t that bad. It was mostly just a matter of comfort with the movement.
But I can definitely understand why so many have struggled, though many more have handled the 70s and 100s far more comfortably than I would have predicted. In the end, I believe 70 and 100 lb. were the right weights—and great separators.
As for technique with a movement like the one-arm dumbbell snatch, is it important? As always, absolutely!
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In CrossFit, HD Videos, The CrossFit Life
May 15, 2012
Nearly 50 workouts later, Gary Roberts has gone from being focused on his weight loss to being focused on general healthy living.
“Now I’m (going) to concentrate on improving my fitness—not necessarily worried about fat,” he says.
In this episode of the Killing the Fat Man—called “we’ve had more sex in the past 7 days then we have had in the past 2 years”—Roberts is once again talking about bedroom time with his wife.
“She’s now spent the last… Continue Reading
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In Kids
May 15, 2012
Lori Parsons describes a fun carnival-style game to get your kids moving.
At a carnival, you get a prize if you throw the ball into the right hole.
In this CrossFit Kids game, the prize might be burpees. But don’t worry: your kids will still love it.
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In Affiliation, Coaching, CrossFit, HD Videos
May 14, 2012
In 2005, Bryan St. Andrews helped found one of the earliest CrossFit affiliates, CrossFit SouthWest, in Tempe, Ariz., not far from Arizona State University. Five years later, he moved back to his hometown and opened CrossFit Nittany near Penn State University.
“Demographically, State College made a lot of sense,” he says of the college town in Pennsylvania. The town has a population of roughly 40,000, but you need much less than that to… Continue Reading
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In Affiliation
May 14, 2012
A CrossFit gym inside a church? That’s exactly what Frank Shirvinski and Nick Stavlund did in Scottsdale, Ariz., to the betterment of both communities.
No one is thinking about paying rent, electric bills or insurance costs when the clock is counting down from 10. In that moment, the only thing that matters is the WOD. Everything else associated with running the box and creating this… Continue Reading
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In Gymnastics/Tumbling, HD Videos
May 13, 2012
For those clients who don’t yet have upper-body strength, the ring row is a good scaling exercise for the pull-up, Julie Barnes Maurer says in this Gymnastics Trainer Course. Immediately putting them on the bar isn’t a good idea, much less having them kip, she emphasizes.
When performing the ring row, “really think about engaging your lats … I don’t want all the stress to be on your elbow and your biceps,” Maurer says.
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