20 Minute AMRAP:
400m Run
5 Rounds:
5 Pull ups
10 Push ups
15 Air Squats
Justin e-mailed this video to all the trainers and interns earlier this week. Short video with a big message. How many times have you heard a trainer tell you to stay on your heels? Coach Burgener shows the importance of keeping one's weight back. If a person is back on their heels, then they can finish the lift properly. If a person is out on their toes, then that bar jumps away from them and the lift becomes more like a kettlebell swing. Getting under a bar that is flying away from you usually doesn't happen and can end up putting people in horrible overhead positions.
Rich Froning stays on his heels. He snatches 300#:
400m Run
5 Rounds:
5 Pull ups
10 Push ups
15 Air Squats
Justin e-mailed this video to all the trainers and interns earlier this week. Short video with a big message. How many times have you heard a trainer tell you to stay on your heels? Coach Burgener shows the importance of keeping one's weight back. If a person is back on their heels, then they can finish the lift properly. If a person is out on their toes, then that bar jumps away from them and the lift becomes more like a kettlebell swing. Getting under a bar that is flying away from you usually doesn't happen and can end up putting people in horrible overhead positions.
Rich Froning stays on his heels. He snatches 300#:
Squat Club will be cancelled... Turns out squats are bad for you. Just read here:
http://www.trainbetterfitness.com/10-reasons-squats-are-a-terrible-exercise/
Posted by: Matt P | February 18, 2013 at 01:36 PM
I can't tell if that article is supposed to be funny or if it's just written by the world's biggest nincompoop. The steroids I have to take to keep up with squatting weekly must confusing me.
Posted by: Justin Riley | February 18, 2013 at 03:06 PM
I'm just grateful for my divinely engineered knees... Plus. Steroids.
Posted by: Matt P | February 18, 2013 at 03:52 PM
I am just glad I have special traps that pad my spine from the load it isn't designed to handle. Also glad I do CrossFit and O-lift otherwise my squatting wouldn't be applicable to anything at all.
Posted by: Justin Riley | February 18, 2013 at 04:12 PM
Man, I knew all those damn jumping squats this morning seemed like a bad idea for some reason.
That page mentions satire down at the end so I think it is meant to be funny, but that is not coming through all that effectively, I don't think.
Posted by: KW | February 18, 2013 at 06:45 PM
Just read the article. HAD to be intended satire.
Posted by: Ashley Latimer | February 18, 2013 at 10:10 PM