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Catalyst Athletics: Our Warm-up is a Warm-up
Greg Everett
| November 8 2011 |
Training: General
Somewhere along the line, warming up became remarkably complicated. And for some, the line between warming up and training has faded to the point that I find myself compelled to say things like the title of this post.
Whenever you start getting confused about what to do, a reliable course of action is to ask yourself a simple question: Why? What is the purpose of this? What am I trying to accomplish? If you can answer those questions, chances are you’ll be able to work it all out just f......
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The Jerk for Sports
Greg Everett
| August 5 2011 |
Training: General
Mike Asks: In most sports full extension and the "follow through" are important - you drive through your legs, hips, torso, shoulders, and arms with a "follow through" after making contact with the ball, or the jaw.
In doing the jerk you pull away from, or drop under, the bar as it is driven upward, so the maximum effort comes before the full extension - I can think of no other sports in which this happens.
Wouldn''t then the "push press" where the drive cont......
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The Bench Press: Benefits and Risks
Greg Everett
| July 27 2011 |
Training: General
After curls, the bench press might be the most vilified lift among functional training enthusiasts and some in the weightlifting community. First, I like curls and I couldn’t care less about people doing them, whether for reasons of performance (yes, there are legitimate performance reasons for curls) or aesthetics, as long as in the latter situation it doesn’t interfere in any way with performance goals, assuming they exist (this is tough to do, but there are definitely cases of hug......
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CrossFit to Weightlifting: Kicking the (metCon) Habit
Jocelyn Forest
| June 14 2011 |
Training: General
The first step is admitting you have a problem. This article is about how I kicked my habit; my metcon habit. When transitioning to the sport of weightlifting, particularly when coming from a GPP addiction, it can be tough to let go. First, let me tell you how it all began.
HOW I GOT HOOKED
“You should be a weightlifter. You would be so good!”
These were the words spoken to me by my then CrossFit coach Aimee Anaya Everett. It was 2010 and I was on a CrossFit high. As ......
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Proper Foot Position in the Squat
Greg Everett
| May 3 2011 |
Training: General
There is some current discussion on foot position in the squat following a post by Kelly Starrett, and I’ve been asked to comment. This article is not intended to criticize him or anyone else, nor is it intended to stand as irrefutable fact. Its purpose is to quickly organize my thoughts on the topic and answer the requests for my input; I'm sure I've left out a number of things I want to say. Use the available information to make your own decisions on training and coaching.
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How Heavy is Too Heavy? Choosing Training Weights
Greg Everett
| February 25 2011 |
Training: General
"So when I lift I always shoot for best form over loading the weight. I don’t do 1RM’s mostly because I have no huge fantasies of lifting a shit ton of weight and I’m mostly looking to just better my over all strength to apply it to sports. I do “heavy” days but I only load the weight as much as I can still maintaining my depth (ass to feet of course), knees driving out, chest up, and my hips under my shoulders. My stopping point is when I feel like m......
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Kettlebell Swings: Overhead or Traditional
Greg Everett
| January 14 2011 |
Training: General
I want to address the swing in response to an email I got about it. Those of you who pay attention to CrossFit are familiar with the practice of continuing the kettlebell swing overhead rather than the traditional level. The question I got was basically why do either, and is there any sort of injury risk or similar with the overhead swing?
Most of the time I prefer the traditional swing, and always with individuals new to the exercise. The point of the kettlebell swing is the explosive snap o......
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The Kipping Pull-up: How to Do It Safely and Use it in Training
Greg Everett
| December 31 2010 |
Training: General
The kipping pull-up has been a point of vehement contention since its popularization by CrossFit; one camp tells the world it’s the only way to create complete elite athletic dominance and will possibly cure all known disease, and the other claims they will fail to develop much of anything athletic but will completely destroy your shoulders. It seems unlikely that any of these is entirely true.
I’ve never spoken up much either way before, except to express my distaste for t......
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Eliminating the Stopwatch: Timing Workouts
Greg Everett
| December 21 2010 |
Training: General
One of the defining characteristics of CrossFit training is the use of a stopwatch or clock to time workouts. This practice is often regarded as being integral to the effectiveness of the training by turning each workout into a competition and making training “measurable”. I’ve used this approach in the past; prior to my introduction to CrossFit, I never used it with myself or my clients; and as of about a year ago, we no longer time workouts at Catalyst Athletics—even on......
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Cutting Bodyweight & Losing Bodyweight for Weightlifting and Other Sports
Greg Everett
| October 29 2010 |
Training: General
I said I would follow up on this topic a couple weeks ago, so I'm going to do it today before I forget and someone gets mad at me.
I think of the weight dropping issue as two different processes: losing weight and cutting weight. Losing weight is a long term process to permanently or semi-permanent lower your bodyweight. Cutting weight is a short-term process to temporarily reduce bodyweight in order to make weight for competition. Accordingly, the approach for each is different.
Losi......
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