In Basics, HD Videos, Medical/Injuries, Reference
November 01, 2011
Join Kelly Starrett, owner of San Francisco CrossFit and creator of MobilityWOD, as he teaches coaches and their athletes how to diagnose dysfunction.
In Part 4, Starrett shares his athlete checklist.
“When I look at athletes this is how I diagnose their movement inefficiency and how I can break down any movement, any sport, any position, anything right away,” he says.
First, he looks for best fit set-up, and if that can’t be achieved, he… Continue Reading
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In HD Videos, Sports Applications
October 31, 2011
Join Dave Re, grand master in the United States Practical Shooting Association (USPSA) along with fellow grand master Jake Di Vita, CrossFit Director of Training Dave Castro and PT guru Kelly Starrett as they hone their shooting skills at the Pala Range in California.
“The USPSA is like the shooting version of CrossFit,” says Di Vita. “You never know what’s going to happen at the match.”
Re discusses the current set-up of stages as… Continue Reading
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In Basics, HD Videos, Medical/Injuries, Reference
October 23, 2011
Join Kelly Starrett, owner of San Francisco CrossFit and creator of MobilityWOD, as he teaches coaches and their athletes how to diagnose dysfunction.
In Part 3, Starrett shares positioning strategy. An organized set-up for good start position leads to a good finish position, and you don’t have to focus on what happens in between, he says.
“Once you’ve lost position or surrendered that position of dominance or that… Continue Reading
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In Basics, HD Videos, Medical/Injuries, Reference
October 13, 2011
Join Kelly Starrett, owner of San Francisco CrossFit and creator of MobilityWOD, as he teaches coaches and their athletes how to diagnose dysfunction.
In Part 2, Starrett provides the four ways he diagnoses dysfunction. The first is “pathological” and needs medical intervention. The second is “catastrophic injury.” Luckily, only 1 percent of his patients come in with that level of dysfunction.
The next categories make up the majority of his cases. The third category is… Continue Reading
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In Basics, HD Videos, Medical/Injuries, Reference
October 03, 2011
Join Kelly Starrett, owner of San Francisco CrossFit and creator of MobilityWOD, as he teaches coaches and their athletes how to diagnose dysfunction.
In Part 1, Starrett discusses paying attention to detail to create a better CrossFit athlete.
“Intensity is a harsh mistress,” he says.
According to Starrett, on our road to achieve general preparedness through CrossFit, our bodies take a beating. Through a survey of participants at his seminar, he shows how many… Continue Reading
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In Exercises, Gymnastics/Tumbling, Mobility, Reference, Videos
September 16, 2011
This video series provides a fresh look at skill-transfer exercises and midline stability, combining the powers of Kelly Starrett and gymnast Carl Paoli. Both San Francisco CrossFit coaches add their expertise to refine basic CrossFit movements with the aim of improving power output.
In Part 7, Paoli demonstrates the ring dip. The same “turning out” used for the bar dip in Part 6 adds external rotation, torque and stability to the shoulder in the… Continue Reading
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In Coaching, Gymnastics/Tumbling, Mobility, Reference, Videos
September 08, 2011
This video series provides a fresh look at skill-transfer exercises and midline stability, combining the powers of Kelly Starrett and gymnast Carl Paoli. Both San Francisco CrossFit coaches add their expertise to refine basic CrossFit movements with the aim of improving power output.
In Part 6, Starrett and Paoli coach the bar dip. They prepare using “The Position,” the same foundational form used for movements from kipping pull-ups to bench press.
Paoli demonstrates getting… Continue Reading
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In Mobility
August 31, 2011
Paul Southern presents a Q&A with mobility maven and original supple leopard Kelly Starrett.
Kelly Starrett received his doctor of physical therapy degree in 2007. His popular Mobility Seminars sell out worldwide. His MobilityWOD.com site had more than 600,000 visitors in its first 80 days. Kelly’s background as an athlete and coach includes high-school and college football, paddling whitewater slalom canoe on the U.S. Canoe and… 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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HQ’s Rory McKernan and Aspen CrossFit’s Nick Massie show how to train an injured elite athlete safely.
CrossFitter T.J. Gulla is a world-class snowcross athlete who has been injured and needs some targeted mobility work and a thorough warm-up. Watch these coaches in action as they work with the injured athlete and provide new training tips anyone can use to spice up their warm-up and mobility routine.
In Part 1, McKernan takes Gulla and a small group through a series of… Continue Reading
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In Affiliation
June 06, 2011
It’s easy to find time to work out if you own a gym—or is it? Dr. Allison Belger talks to affiliate owners about how they find balance in their busy lives.
Imagine how clean your clothes would be if you owned a dry-cleaning business. Or maybe if you were a CrossFit affiliate owner, you would be in awesome shape all the time, because, after all, you would own your gym.
The reality is it takes a lot of time and energy to run a… Continue Reading
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This video series provides a fresh look at skill-transfer exercises and midline stability, combining the powers of Kelly Starrett and gymnast Carl Paoli. Both San Francisco CrossFit coaches use their expertise to refine basic CrossFit movements with the aim of improving power output.
In Part 5, the coaches examine the pull-up.
“It’s almost like a good pull-up reinforces his overhead position,” Starrett says as Paoli demonstrates the proper body position: active shoulders… Continue Reading
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In Coaching, ExPhysiology, Exercises, Videos
April 28, 2011
This video series provides a fresh look at skill-transfer exercises and midline stability, combining the powers of Kelly Starrett and gymnast Carl Paoli. Both San Francisco CrossFit coaches add their expertise to refine basic CrossFit movements with the aim of improving power output.
In Part 4, the push-up is taken to the rings, where the support or finish position externally rotates the shoulders. Getting organized with a tight belly and squeezed butt is essential to hold… Continue Reading
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In Coaching, ExPhysiology, Exercises, Reference, Videos
April 16, 2011
This video series provides a fresh look at skill-transfer exercises and midline stability, combining the powers of Kelly Starrett and gymnast Carl Paoli. Both San Francisco CrossFit coaches add their expertise to refine basic CrossFit movements with the aim of improving power output.
In Part 3, the pair refines the push-up to transfer better shoulder position to other movements, such as Olympic lifting. The proper, organized set-up allows for torque through… Continue Reading
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In Classic, ExPhysiology, Exercises, Gymnastics/Tumbling, Reference, Videos
April 08, 2011
This video series provides a fresh look at skill-transfer exercises and midline stability, combining the powers of Kelly Starrett and gymnast Carl Paoli. Both San Francisco CrossFit coaches add their expertise to refine basic CrossFit movements with the aim of improving power output.
In Part 2, the burpee is refined as a skill-transfer exercise.
“Here is another classic CrossFit exercise that ends up being a fantastic conditioning tool,” Starrett says.
The straight jump of the burpee demonstrates “The… Continue Reading
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In Coaching, ExPhysiology, Exercises, Gymnastics/Tumbling, Reference, Videos
March 31, 2011
This video series provides a fresh look at skill-transfer exercises and midline stability, combining the powers of Kelly Starrett and gymnast Carl Paoli. Both San Francisco CrossFit coaches add their expertise to refine basic CrossFit movements with the aim of improving power output.
“The goal is to take the very basic things that we do that are simple to see and understand and then translate them into the fun stuff,” Paoli says.
According to Starrett, the easiest way… Continue Reading
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In Exercises, HD Videos, Medical/Injuries, Videos
February 26, 2011
“It turns out that even top athletes who are really really good at what they do they still need to stretch,” says seminar team member Jami Tikkanen of Thames CrossFit. He addresses tight hip issues he identified in one of the seminar attendees, Diego Derscentis, a professional soccer player in Europe.
Tikkanen shows Derscentis a series of stretches taught by mobility guru Kelly Starrett. Beginning with Starrett’s classic couch stretch, Tikkanen adds two more versions to… Continue Reading
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Strength legend Louie Simmons swears by the reverse-hyper machine he invented after breaking his back. In this two-part video, Kelly Starrett explains why the device works and why you might want to put it in your gym.
In Part 2, Starrett explains how you should use the machine. The goal isn’t to drive hard right out of the bottom but rather to let momentum elevate the weights before the muscles engage to finish the… Continue Reading
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In CrossFit Endurance, Sports Applications, Videos
February 10, 2011
“I’m a journalist within the running and triathlon world, I mean that’s what I’ve been doing for the last 14 years. So one of the things for me is to explore something new with validity behind it and report on it,” says T.J. Murphy, the editor-in-chief of Competitor Magazine. Through the coaching of Brian MacKenzie of CrossFit Endurance, Murphy is exploring CrossFit and bringing it into the spotlight.
Murphy recently launched a 10-page spread on… Continue Reading
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In Exercises, Powerlifting, Videos
January 27, 2011
Strength legend Louie Simmons swears by the reverse-hyper machine he invented after breaking his back. In this two-part video, Kelly Starret explains why the device works and why you might want to put it in your gym.
According to Starrett, the reverse hyper helps people figure out how to stabilize the body while moving the hip independently. It can also come in handy if you want to get an injured athlete doing hip… Continue Reading