In CrossFit Endurance, Sports Applications, Videos
September 04, 2010
Training for a sport can be boring and repetitive, and swimming is no different as the laps pile up. To spice things up a bit and hopefully increase performance, Pete Raykovich and Chris Michelmore have been using CrossFit with young athletes at De Anza Cupertino Aquatics.
Michelmore and Raykovich talk about how they’ve implemented CrossFit in their training program and how the athletes have responded to the intense dry-land workouts. Interestingly… Continue Reading
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In CrossFit Endurance, Sports Applications, Videos
August 27, 2010
In 2008-09, Sage Hopkins and Chris Michelmore led the San Jose State women’s swimming team to arguably the greatest season in Spartan history. Both happen to be avid CrossFitters and have implemented the CrossFit protocol throughout the swimming program—but getting there wasn’t easy.
“Your ass is on the line,” Hopkins was told when trying to implement CrossFit into the swimming program.
While correlation doesn’t imply cause, both coaches are sure that the… Continue Reading
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In CrossFit Endurance, Sports Applications, Videos
August 18, 2010
Programming workouts for injured athletes can be a trying process for a coach. Keeping intensity high while avoiding problem areas proves to be the most difficult element, yet clients and athletes often come out of an injury in better shape than they went in.
Chris Michelmore, assistant head coach of San Jose State’s wome’s swimming team, has had to deal with a number of injuries to his athletes, with most prevalent being… Continue Reading
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In MMA, Sports Applications, Videos
August 16, 2010
John Hackleman is best known as the man in the corner of former UFC champion Chuck (The Iceman) Liddell, but he’s also the trainer behind a host of other martial artists.
In this video shot at Hackleman’s MMA center, we meet the rest of the Pit Fight Team—including Antonio Banuelos, Michael Gahan, Gregg Baker Jr. and Veronica Castilleja—as they train under the Pitmaster.
Also on the team but not featured in this training session… Continue Reading
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In CrossFit Endurance, Sports Applications, Videos
August 05, 2010
Sport-specific training is a hot topic in collegiate athletic programs. How to optimize in-sport capacity through gym work is a very important part of training, and how teams go about that can be as varied as the schools themselves. Chris Michelmore and Sage Hopkins of the San Jose State women’s swimming team choose CrossFit to prepare their women to do battle in the water.
“Everything we do in CrossFit starts from our core and moves… Continue Reading
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In Sports Applications, Videos
August 02, 2010
You’ve already seen our introduction to John Hackleman and his crew at The Pit, a hybrid CrossFit and MMA gym. Now it’s time to take a look at how Hackleman and his trainees implement workouts designed for fighters with CrossFit style protocol.
One-hundred-pound wall-balls, anyone?
13min 37sec
Additional reading: Scoring Martial Arts Workouts for Intensity by John Hackleman, with Greg Amundson and Shain Howard, published Dec. 3, 2009.
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In Sports Applications, Videos
July 26, 2010
In lifting, positioning is everything. Positioning is even more important when you’re lifting heavy, odd objects.
In this video filmed at Hybrid Athletics, Rob Orlando explains that stone lifting requires brute strength, but it also requires technique. You can be an ox and still get owned by a stone if you lift it incorrectly. Conversely, you can focus your strength with efficient technique and moves weights you never dreamed of.
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In Sports Applications, Videos
July 25, 2010
Legendary MMA trainer John Hackleman discovered CrossFit in its early days and hooked up with Greg Glassman at the original CrossFit box in Santa Cruz. Soon after, Hackleman started CrossPit, a sport-specific hybrid MMA and CrossFit training protocol that has churned out countless firebreathers. Hackleman’s current gym, The Pit, utilizes this training strategy with great success.
“Conditioning is as important as anything else in the martial arts,” the… Continue Reading
