Maybe the most functional exercise one can do. It requires strength, speed, power, flexibility, coordination, and can require agility too if you are talking about a shuttle run. It also makes you sore as hell if you don’t do it very often. I ran two 100m sprints on Saturday. I didn’t time it. My goal [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2009’
Strong Enough Continued …
This video of two of the best oly lifters in the country doing Grace (30 reps of 135/95lb Clean and Jerk) brings up some very interesting concepts. On the one hand, neither of them have ever attempted this workout before and both have good to very good times. This would seem to bolster the case [...]
A New Training Template
The Truth of the CrossFit methodology is no longer in doubt. Functional movements performed at high intensity across broad times and modal domains works. Power is our gold standard. I don’t question any of this and won’t be presenting anything that really disputes it. My interest is in programming. I am proposing two changes (or [...]
Why I Need to Work on Weaknesses
I was in fourth place after day one of the qualifiers. Why? because I’m good at running, box jumps, double unders, deadlifts, and rowing. I was well out of fourth place after day 2. Why? Snatches. Even though I could complete the movement, I was not efficient because I don’t practice these too often. I’ll [...]
Full Time
(Proper POSE Running technique? Much like Ferris Bueller, “I never had a lesson.”) OK, I’ve stopped recovering and will now probably proceed to work out too hard for the next two weeks in the run up to a 2 week lay-off. Good times. What I really want to do right now is make sure that [...]