Concept2 master trainer Angela Hart provides tips for improving your rowing efficiency. The force-curve display in the rower’s monitor is one way to evaluate the power and efficiency of your rowing stroke.
“You want it to be smooth,” Hart says. “But don’t be, you know, too hung up on the actual shape of your force curve.”
Hart analyzes common force-curve shapes. For example, a divot in the front half of the force curve shows a lack… Continue Reading
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In Coaching, Exercises, Gymnastics/Tumbling, Reference, Videos
September 05, 2011
CrossFit Santa Cruz’s Laurie Galassi, a gymnast and fifth-place finisher at the NorCal Regional, shares her coaching tips for mastering the handstand. In Part 1 of the series, she focuses on body position.
“I picked handstands because they’re the foundation of gymnastics,” Galassi says. “It’s the basis for everything else.”
This gymnastics element fits perfectly into CrossFit.
“The neat thing for CrossFit is that once you can do a handstand suddenly putting weight… Continue Reading
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In Coaching, CrossFit Endurance, Exercises, Videos
September 01, 2011
In this series, Brian MacKenzie and Doug Katona of CrossFit Endurance share tips for improving your cycling performance. Using a Wattbike, the two are able to collect data on cycling performance and improve technique. Today’s goal is improving posture while cycling.
“Cycling biomechanically is a very, very fine skill,” Katona says. Using the analogy of a clock, he provides simple ways to look at pedaling biomechanics to see where power is generated.
“What… Continue Reading
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In Coaching, Exercises, Gymnastics/Tumbling, Videos
August 25, 2011
Retool your gymnastics skills with elite gymnast Carl Paoli, founder of Naka Athletics, coach at San Francisco CrossFit and creator of GymnasticsWOD.com. Through his Freestyle Connections Seminar, Paoli introduces athletes to advanced gymnastics skills using simple progressions and coaching points. In this two-part series, Carl Paoli teaches how to develop midline stability through the hollow-body position.
In Part 1, Paoli developed the hollow rock… Continue Reading
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In Coaching, Exercises, Gymnastics/Tumbling, Videos
August 18, 2011
Retool your gymnastics skills with elite gymnast Carl Paoli, founder of Naka Athletics, coach at San Francisco CrossFit and creator of GymnasticsWOD.com. Through his Freestyle Connections Seminar, Paoli introduces athletes to advanced gymnastics skills using simple progressions and coaching points. In this two-part series, Carl Paoli teaches how to develop midline stability through the hollow-body position.
Paoli has his athletes lie down on the… Continue Reading
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In CrossFit Endurance, Exercises, Videos
August 14, 2011
In this new series, Doug Katona of CrossFit Endurance shares tips for improving your cycling performance.
In this segment, Katona explains how to properly fit your bike.
“If you’re not fitted properly, you’re going to lose a lot of efficiency, which means you’re going to diminish your power output, which means you’re not going to go as fast down the road,” he says.
The key adjustments include saddle height, fore and aft… Continue Reading
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In Coaching, Exercises, Olympic Lifts, Videos
August 07, 2011
“Anytime you are gripping this PVC pipe for a snatch or a clean, you must always have the hook grip!”
Coach Mike Burgener is not flexible on this rule, and breaking it usually results in burpees. But why?
Simply, the hook grip ensures the bar doesn’t slip in your hands, even at maximal weight. Olympic weightlifting is a game of centimeters, and even a little slip can move the bar out of its optimal line of travel… Continue Reading
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In Coaching, Exercises, Sports Applications, Videos
July 30, 2011
What do kegs, yokes and concrete balls have to do with CrossFit?
Join Rob Orlando of Hybrid Athletics at San Francisco CrossFit as he takes coaches and athletes through strongman movements and equipment.
In Part 1, Orlando teaches the proper technique for lifting atlas stones. In a sumo stance with a flat back and the hips below the knees, you are in an ideal starting position. Just like a deadlift, your arms remain long… Continue Reading
