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Pro tip: wrapping athletic tape. A little wrap of tape can go a long way in lending stability, confidence and comfort to the joint.

1. Grab a roll of athletic tape. They usually come in 1.5" width; and these days, in a plethora of colors to match your mood. I find Mueller and Johnson&Johnson to be my favorite brands cause they don’t turn into bracelets as soon as you start to sweat.

2. Unravel a 8"-12" strip.

3. To prep, use @tonyblauer Spear™ hands. This allows room for your wrist to expand and not cut off circulation.

Weightlifters will use assistance lifts to try and strengthen their position under movement. Deadlifts, pulls and high pulls are commonly inserted after the classic lifts are performed to get some extra work in before moving on to parts of the workout.

The benefit, however, really only comes if you perform the various pulls the same way as you would snatch or clean.

To test if you do, try performing a:

deadlift + pull + high-pull + snatch/clean.

Did they feel the same or did each lift feel different?

Sunday morning repost from one of our lifters @avina86. He spotted @kendrickjfarris and I scheming it up and jumped in for a little photo op! Thank you for making me look incredibly #jacked. My shoulders look like they’ve got their own set of shoulders.

Final day down at The 2013 Reebok CrossFit Games. Stoked to see who’s going to be crowned Fittest Man and Woman on Earth!

Hanging out at Waxman’s Gym lifting AND watching the ladies get after the Clean&Jerk ladder for the 2013 Reebok CrossFit Games. This is what we call having the best of both worlds. #Winning

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Hanging out at the 2013 Reebok CrossFit Games. Ran into my friend and heroine 2000 Olympic team member Cara Heads-Slaughter! Hearts.

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#tbt Circa 2009, back when I was training under Jim Schmitz at The Sports Palace down in South San Francisco, CA.

Photo cred: @jimschmitz

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When you snatch or clean do you ever:

1. Wonder why the bar is so far away from your body?

2. Wonder how to bring the bar into your hips?

3. Catch/lose the bar out front?

If you said yes to any of the above, you could be at fault of not sweeping/shifting the bar in towards the body.

To remedy this, proper use of the lats as the mechanism for pushing the bar into the body must be employed.

Andrea Searby PR clean&jerk at 173lbs/79kg. Getting after it.

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Hanging out at the #SanFranciscoCrosSFit Movement and Mobility Seminar with the one and only Kelly Starrett. I’ve attended over a dozen of these seminars with Kelly and his talks just get better every time and the jokes get funnier too.

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Saturday #FuBarbell fun.

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