In Olympic Lifts, Videos
November 08, 2009
In Part 1, Coach Mike Burgener taught a group of athletes the grip and receiving position for the clean. In Part 2, he showed them how to put speed on the bar as they clean it to the rack position. Part 3 finds the CrossFit Olympic-lifting expert teaching the split jerk.
A good split jerk looks like a quarter lunge, where the back heel is off the deck with the weight in… Continue Reading
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In Coaching, Olympic Lifts, Videos
November 01, 2009
In Part 1 of this series, Coach Mike Burgener taught a group of athletes the grip and receiving position for the clean. In Part 2, Coach B shows them how to put speed on the bar as they clean it to the rack position.
Drilling from the high hang position, Burgener has the athletes clean the bar, with one trainee getting holy hell for forgetting to use the hook grip. Under threat of burpees, the athlete takes… Continue Reading
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In Coaching, Olympic Lifts, Videos
October 25, 2009
You have one hour to teach the clean and jerk to six athletes of varying ability: how do you do it?
Tony Budding of CrossFit HQ threw the challenge at Olympic lifting expert Mike Burgener, who wasn’t phased at all.
“I’m sure we can get it done,” Coach B says. “It’s not going to be that hard.”
Coach Burgener starts with the basics. To establish a good rack position, he ensures proper grip width and has the athletes… Continue Reading
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In Olympic Lifts, Videos
September 28, 2009
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line—which is also often the quickest route to a missed snatch.
In snatching, you don’t want a perfectly vertical bar path but rather a line that curves in toward you slightly.
“The path of the bar is where?” Coach Mike Burgener asks. “It’s back. That’s the key. You don’t want that path to be straight. You don’t want it to go around. You want it to be back.”
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In Olympic Lifts, Videos
September 10, 2009
“You don’t drop under the bar! You don’t fall under the bar! You pull yourself under the bar hard and fast!”
During a snatch workout with Jason Khalipa and Jocelyn Forest, Coach Mike Burgener gets loud and aggressive with the 2008 Games champ, demanding that he forget about strength to focus on speed.
Burgener notices Khalipa isn’t finishing his pulls and is slow to snap underneath the bar. The athlete from CrossFit Santa Clara is strong as an ox, but he… Continue Reading
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September 05, 2009
Bill Starr believes finishing the pull is the only way to succeed in Olympic lifting once the plates start adding up.
This article is for any athlete who’s trying to improve numbers on any type of dynamic pulling exercise. These include not only the Olympic lifts but also shrugs, power cleans and snatches, and snatch-grip high pulls.
Every exercise is made up of a start, middle and finish. While all… Continue Reading
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In Olympic Lifts, Videos
August 30, 2009
Coach Mike Burgener of Mike’s Gym reviews the key points of the snatch during an Olympic Lifting Certification held March 7-8, 2009, at CrossFit Old Town in Alexandria, Va.
Coach B’s instructions: when lifting the bar from the floor, keep a constant back angle while getting the knees out of the way. The whole purpose of the first part of the lift is to get to the ideal jumping position at mid-thigh, and if you change… Continue Reading
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In Olympic Lifts, Videos
August 17, 2009
Coach Mike Burgener of Mike’s Gym provides more examples of individual variation, a topic he also explored in a video entitled “Who Should Split.” This time, the subject is receiving the bar. The footage was captured by CrossFit Again Faster at an Olympic weightlifting certification seminar held March 7-8 at CrossFit Old Town in Alexandria, Virginia.
Coach Burgener begins by having his daughter, Sage, jump her body… Continue Reading
