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If you’re not out of your comfort zone with two to three minutes to go in your workout, then there’s something wrong.
- Michael Roach
(via f**kyeahcrossfit)
Pair with Camille Leblanc-Bazinet’s 3 Mental Tips For CrossFit
Rudy Nielsen of the Outlaw Way posted the following message from Olympic Lifting Coach Glenn Pendlay:
The Power Snatch is half the movement. It gives someone with a shitty pull and a shitty finish, the ability to continue to be shitty at Snatching, while moving a relatively heavy load to overhead with the shittiest, most useless possible technique. It allows under-developed lifters to feel good about themselves, while remaining under-developed, and only practicing the pulling portion of the lift. My best lifters—at the Snatch—look the exact same with an empty barbell as they do with 150kg. The Power Snatch is good for de-loading, or practicing the pull, but it should never be a lifters default choice.
Reminder to self: quit trying to improve my snatch by doing power snatches.
You can find the original post here:
The Outlaw Way: A note on Power vs. Full lifts
You can also find our favorite Snatch video here.
That’s no power snatch…
Awesome pic courtesy of Amber Karnes on Flickr
Check it out. Novelist Amelia E. “Wodzilla” Barr, who died in 1919, was an awesome CrossFit coach. Prepare to absorb a serious knowledge bomb when she drops the following nine tips on you (although she mistakenly thought she was talking about literature as opposed to CrossFit).
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
- Pablo Picasso
