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Tag Archives: clean-and-jerk

No act — in the gym or in life — is really safe

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Posted By CrossFit Lisbeth Bumper plates forgive: this is one of the reasons we like them. When things goes bad and we need to drop the bar, bumpers bounce. There is no permanent mark of our mistake, no forever heralding of our error, no scar that points to what we did wrong. No huge clang of [...]

Benchmark: Grace

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Excerpt from “The Clean” in the CF Journal The clean builds immense strength and power but this is only the more obvious part of the clean’s story. (This complex movement actually contains within itself two princely exercises – the deadlift and squat.) The clean is unique among weight training exercises in that it demands extraordinary [...]

“Ice Monster”

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Friday, January 20, 2012 Paleo Challenge Blog (Day 12) Everything we do is scalable. Women, children, obese, elderly, wounded warriors, Moms, special forces, elite athletes are all doing Crossfit.  Workouts are modified as needed to be accessible by anyone yet challenging to everyone.  The CrossFit community is accessible to children, senior citizens, morbidly obese, and [...]

Fitness is a Lifestyle

PALEO CHALLENGE DAY 3 BLOG Wednesday, January 11, 2012 7.   Performance focused.  Most gyms and fitness marketing focuses on body image.  CrossFit shifts people’s focus to performance.  How strong, how fast, how long, how many?  We measure and improve the 10 physical skill of fitness mentioned in yesterday’s blog post. 8.   Diet and Nutrition – [...]

Friday, January 6, 2012

Along a continuum of speed and strength. The clean and jerk is a speed-strength movement. What that means is that speed will always trump strength in this movement(especially when “catching” the barbell in the rack position). From the ground to the rack position speed is your primary locomotive. Once the barbell is caught in the [...]

Friday December 6, 2011

Strength: Deadlift 3RM Conditioning: Death By Clean & Jerk 135/95 Box jump -Death by works by adding a rep every minute that passes. All human beings should be able to perform basic maintenance on themselves

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Skill: Clean & Jerk (work on landing and rack position) Conditioning: 50-40-30-20-10 Double Under Situp Hand Stand static hold (seconds) The most ideal position for the static hold occurs when hand are place 3-6 inches away from the wall. The shoulders, hips, and ankles should be locked in a rigid-straight  line. Draw your ribs in [...]

Friday

Skill: Clean and Jerk Conditioning: 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10 Clean and Jerk (135/95) Hand Stand Push up We are going to get so good with handstands that we’ll even want to do them in the public bathroom. Just don’t forget to wash your hands when your done.