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Spent the morning learning from Profe. Edison Carriel, head coach of the weightlifting federation here in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Profe. Carriel coaches classes here @kallpaevents Monday through Thursday from 730-9AM each morning. I had the pleasure of speaking with him after class asking questions about the Olympic weightlifting lifestyle down in Ecuador. It’s fun learning how each country approaches this sport. I will be heading down to the federation this afternoon to train with some of the girls from the Ecuadorian national team. Can’t wait!

Buenos Aires, Argentina in a diptic. Had a great couple of days thanks to my hosts CrossFit @tuluka. It’s a beautiful city with a warm culture and amazing grilled meats. Thank you for the great experience, new friendships and wonderful memories!

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And it’s a wrap! Spent a great 4 days down in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Thank you @tuluka for being such great hosts. Today’s seminar was great and it was a fun experience working with a translator for the first time. Guayaquil, Ecuador is up next!

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Just wrapped up a great workshop at @tuluka. 60 athletes came to weightlift on a Saturday night. Argentina knows how to roll. Epic.

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In case you missed this dropping yesterday… Bless The Gym and FuBarbell are on a mission of spreading the good word of Olympic-style weightlifting. Kendrick Farris (@kendrickjfarris), 2x Olympian, and I (@dianefu) put our heads together and decided to come together and unite our coaching talents. For this one time only, we will be packaging this experience together for you into a 3-part workshop held at Jason Khalipa’s (@jasonkhalipa) NorCal CrossFit in San Jose, California. Come join us from 6/8/14-6/10/14 for this once in a lifetime experience!

Bless The Gym and FuBarbell are on a mission of spreading the good word of Olympic-style weightlifting. Kendrick Farris (@kendrickjfarris), 2x Olympian, and I (@dianefu) put our heads together and decided to come together and unite our coaching talents. For this one time only, we will be packaging this experience together for you into a 3-part workshop held at Jason Khalipa’s (@jasonkhalipa) NorCal CrossFit in San Jose, California. Come join us from 6/8/14-6/10/14 for this once in a lifetime experience!

This list of congratulations is going to be long! So here goes:

Great workshop at CrossFit Daniville! Sunday fun day.

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FuBarbell Saturday sesh — can’t imagine another way to spend a Saturday afternoon.

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Understanding positions during the pull is key to being able to execute a consistent movement pattern during the lift. This consistency over time allows the body to find efficiency and develops a solid foundation to the continue building up and advancing the snatch and clean.

A game I like to play with my athletes is ‘Simon Says’. The goal being whether or not they can reproduce each position I want to see with mechanical precision and no hesitation. Spending an extra 5 minutes prior to lifting priming these points will pay dividends come time to load up the bar and go.