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Think of a number of where you feel that your lift starts to breakdown. If you’ve any spent time diagnosing your own movement, then you probably also have a pretty good idea what happens — you come onto your toes, bar swings way out, jumping forward to catch the bar. Most athletes that come to me are also pretty savvy that way.

It’s Sunday; and while others like to do brunch, the ladies of #FuBarbell like to get together and #squat!

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#FuBarbell Saturday crew throwing up some weights this afternoon!

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Kelly Starrett sequence of a 134kg/295lbs power clean. Kelly uses a mixed grip cleaning and racking technique due to an old wrist injury. Epic.

Want to see the man in action? Go check out www.Facebook.com/FuBarbell to watch the video!

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For many of us veterans in the CrossFit scene, we’ve danced this dance before with 12.4. This week’s open cleverly combines two classic CrossFit benchmark WODs Karen and 30 muscle-ups. If this wasn’t bad enough, to bridge the gap between the two efforts are 90 double-unders.

Are you…

Feeling disconnected in your jerks?
Pressing/grinding out the lockout?
Slow getting under the bar?

Try some “open palm” jerks at lighter weight to be sure you’re not over tensioning against the barbell. This technique will allow you to better express your legs and allow the arms to follow through and drive you underneath the barbell. (Warning: open palm to start and then close your grip as you lock out your elbows)

There will come a time in a weightlifter’s career where their lifts start to stall and PRs are fewer and far between. Welcome to Intermediate Land — where you snatch, snatch and snatch some more for maybe a kilo or two of improvement every now and then. Improving technique, increasing volume, and adjusting intensity are all ways to manipulate a program to further enhance physiological adaptations and promote positive stress, but this all takes time and a basic knowledge of periodization to tweak properly. So how does one still learning the ropes of proper programming punch through the walls of plateaus?

I’ve always said gymnasts make the best weightlifters. My friend @carlpaoli practicing his snatch.

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Not only is she the Fittest Woman on Earth, Annie Thorisdottir (@icelandannie) has the smile of a winner! Such a treat to have Annie hanging out and training with us this week.

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Back to some basics today! It is my experience that most of the athletes coming to me for technique tune-ups have their grip in closer than where I’d like to see them. This is understandable because the closer grip is a stronger grip and feels more stable overhead.

If performance is your aim, however, then having the grip positioned so the bar can hang at the proper level will allow for quicker transitions and better leveraging.