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Brought the crew down to spend the morning with Coach Don McCauley. Coach McCauley is a master at the craft of coaching weightlifting and listening to him speak is always a treat. Thank you Jacob Tsypkin (@jtsypkin) for having us in your home. We will visit more often, I promise!

Coach McCauley will be conducting a WL clinic this Saturday down at CrossFit Monterey. Anyone in the SF Bay Area interested in attending should reach out to Jacob Tsypkin of CrossFit Monterey at Tsypkin@gmail.com.

Working from the hang or boxes helps to develop speed strength, positional strength and, in Jackie’s (@jackie585) situation, confidence under the barbell. So much fun to watch the progress each week!

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Hanging out with Rafe from Evolve Move Play learning Parkour basics.

Having body awareness and body control is fundamental before you can start to move and manipulate with an object. Although gymnastics seems like our fundamental “go to” for such practices, activities such as parkour offers certain freedoms in rhythm that it’s more formal counterpart cannot. Want to see improvement in your Olympic lifts? Spend some time honing in on your bio-machine and watch those kilos rise.

Mobility like a boss. Ilya (@ilyailyin4ever) spends 30min each day prior to training working on flexibility. There are also photos floating around somewhere of Klokov in the splits during this seminar. I wasn’t quite quick enough with the trigger to capture a photo of him performing this act. He’d basically be talking and suddenly just drop into the splits cold without warm-up as a demonstration of his flexibility. Very impressive indeed.

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To continue the string of PRs this week, Jackie Perez (@jackie585) knocked it out of the park with a clean, rack jerk and clean&jerk PR of 173lbs all in one session. CrossFit athletes have the best work capacity. Like a boss.

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Kristin Newman (@dancefightlift) post surgery PR clean&jerk at 238lbs/108kg. Lifetime PR is 244lbs/111kg. I think we’re going to blow that out of the water soon. Boom.

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Feats of strength with Dmitry Klokov (@klokovd) at CrossFit Oahu (@crossfitoahufamily). Given the amount of travel these guys have been doing around the world, they are still very regimented about their training. On this day in particular, because Polovnikov had already been in the states for several weeks, he was adjusted enough to push for a max on his snatch. Whereas Klokov stayed light to allow his body to adjust to the jet lag having just arrived a few days before.

Sara Flynn of Myles Ahead Weightlifting (@mylesahead1) demonstrating a high level of athleticism in barbell manipulation. Sara’s level of speed, power and coordination is fun to witness live in action.

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Front rack making you uncomfortable? Not entirely sure where the bar should rest and be supported?

3 Points of Performance for a better rack involve:

1. Supporting the bar above the chest and behind the meaty landmark of the shoulder.

2. Actively resisting the depression of the barbell to avoid cutting off air and circulation.

3. Keeping the hands loose and elbows up and active to maintain body positioning.

To get a feel for proper bar positioning, Zombie squats can be employed help develop this sense of awareness for athletes.