Raw Strength and Conditioning

RAW STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING: TRAINING AND DISTANCE PROGRAMMING.

The SNATCH, and Olympic Lifting in general are less about brute strength and more about perfect technique. When performing a lift, the tiniest error can make a huge difference in the amount of weight you can move and whether the lift will be successful.

TRAINING CROSSFIT ATHLETES ON THE GOLD COAST

Why include hip thrusts as an accessory exercise to your Olympic Lifting program? Because weightlifting is all in the hips! You do a hip thrust every time you perform a snatch or clean.

TRAINING CROSSFIT ATHLETES ON THE GOLD COAST.

The following Blog is from Beastmodal Domains, check out the site here. In this particular blog, Beastmodal Domains presents a guest post by Tim “Brad ‘Tim Francis’ Pitt” Francis.  Pot stirrer.. thoughts??

Have you ever been told to, "Set your core," before performing a Snatch? The Olympic Lifts, the Clean and Jerk, and Snatch, require significant core strength and stability, i.e. strong back and abdominal muscles. Core exercises for these movements are so important (yet often overlooked), and any decent lifting program should include a heavy core workout regimen to strengthen and stabilise the torso.

At CrossFit Norwest we are constantly striving to improve the turnover phase of our snatches and cleans, this action is an integral part of these tricky lifts. A lot more attention tends to be paid to the third pull/turnover of the snatch rather than the clean. Why?? Likely because in the snatch the consequences of poor execution tend to be more dramatic and noticeable, however the turnover in the clean also deserves some attention! The difference between making a heavy clean and getting a 1RM, failing a lift or gassing muscles at a Sydney CrossFit games day comes down to timing and precision.

The snatch is one of the most technical skills performed in CrossFit, and one of the hardest lifts to conquer much more so than the clean and jerk. The snatch has been coined by many as the "fastest lift in the world" because when performed correctly it  takes less than one second to get the barbell from the ground to overhead.