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Great day teaching the foundations seminar. This was a good looking group with lots of good movers. Everyone had great questions and everyone was very enthusiastic to learn! Thank you all for coming out. I’ll be back in Jersey again next week!

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Great Level Up seminar today at CrossFit 215. We got to chat about some more advanced topics and the questions throughout the day were on point! Thank you Micah for hosting a great event and also for joining me on a workout after the seminar. I had a great time today!

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Would it be strange to wish your legs were the size of someone’s arms? If not, I got dibs on @marksmellybell arms with @silentmikke running a close second.

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by @marksmellybell “Overhead #skwaats w/ @dianefu !!! #crossfit #fitnessmotivation #fitfam #fitness #gym #powerlifting #instafit #slingshot #jackedandtan”

When your strongest friends come to visit — @marksmellybell @silentmikke — only missing @jesseburdick which would’ve made the day complete! Be sure to check out Mark Bell and friends at www.SuperTraining.tv

Stay tuned in for a couple contests heading your way where we will be giving away some pink hip circles! Awesome sauce.

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Throwback Thursday (#tbt) a behind the scenes look at #SanFranciscoCrosSFit the week of 14.5 Open WOD. We had @jasonkhalipa, @richfroning, @grahamholmberg, @ager_bomb and @anniethorisdottir all in to get some work done. My favorite scene? Ava’s cameo appearance. Hearts.

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Blocks are a great tool to help an athlete develop strength, speed, and an awareness during different points of the pull. An athlete who is tentative about pulling under the bar would benefit largely as well due to the more “reactionary” nature of the lift.

Set the blocks low to strengthen the position at/around the knees and higher to limit the time and distance to develop second pull power.

Just in case you missed this dropping yesterday!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/1731468517/the-art-of-weightlifting

Hey folks, I’m excited to announce my first Kickstarter project - The Art of Weightlifting! It’s a hardbound illustrated book where you can read my collected thoughts and theories on Olympic-style weightlifting. Unlike the typical textbook, the theories will be depicted with beautiful illustrations rendered by a team of fine artists curated by my creative pal @ericcalderon!

Weightlifting is fun, but lifting weight is more fun. At FuBarbell, we celebrate picking up heavy objects regardless of it’s shape.

Congratulations to Kristin Newman (@dancefightlift) for entering and taking 1st place in her very first Strong(wo)man competition!

Kristin competed and scored in the following events:

Farmer’s Walk 185lbs/handle

Axle clean&jerk 203lbs

Deadlift (Silver dollar/18 inch) 545lbs

Stone ~170lbs -ish

Zercher Carry 265lbs

The next leg of the 2014 FuBarbell Tour is up! See if we are coming to a location near you at:

www.FuBarbell.com/Events

For the rest of this month, I’m offering 20% off my FuBarbell seminar to anyone that purchases my @codyapp Olympic Weightlifting Bundle.

http://codyapp.com/dianefu

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