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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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Predicting Snatch and Clean & Jerk 1RMs
Greg Everett
| February 18 2011 |
Training: Weightlifting
Iain Asks: What do you use as a predictor for a 1rm in the snatch and clean & jerk in training/ competition? (I know that there can be many many variables to consider)
This is an interesting question because there are no straightforward answers and a good number of opinions on how to approach it.
First let’s talk about training and then we’ll get to competition. For all the 1RM formulas out there, nothing works like actually performing a max lift. There is far too 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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Grip Strength and Training for Weightlifting
Greg Everett
| November 26 2010 |
Training: Weightlifting
Grip for the snatch and clean is a topic very important to me personally as someone with relatively small hands. For most lifters my size, grip is not an issue because they tend to have fairly large hands and easily get better coverage on the bar. Even my lovely wife Aimee's fingers are almost as long as mine, and she gets to lift on a bar 3 mm smaller.
There are a million ways to train grip strength and related abilities and quite an array of movements and positions. However, if we're t......
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The Push Press: Use Your Legs
Greg Everett
| November 13 2010 |
Training: Weightlifting
An exercise I use very frequently both in training and teaching is the push press. The push press has tremendous utility in a multitude of senses and should definitely be a staple of any strength training program.
As an intermediary between the press and the jerk, the push press largely splits the difference and shares features of both the press and jerk. Interestingly (at least to me), I see the majority of people thinking of it strictly as an upper body movement, and being more closely rel......
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Starting a Weightlifting Team
Greg Everett
| October 30 2010 |
Editorial
This month, I decided to provide a simple guide to starting a weightlifting team. More and more interest is developing in weightlifting competition, and the process can seem mysterious to those who have not yet been exposed to it. This article should help get you started.
Administrative Considerations
The process may vary a bit depending on where you live, but it will likely be similar to how it works in the US. USA Weightlifting governs the sport in the US under IWF rules and oversees ......
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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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Bodyweight & Weightlifting Competition
Greg Everett
| October 15 2010 |
Training: Weightlifting
One of the obvious questions in a sport with bodyweight categories is which category to compete in. This will vary among athletes and sports. The scheduling of weigh-ins is probably the biggest determining factor in how dramatically an athlete can play with his or her weight. In sports with weigh-ins 24 hours before competition, huge amounts of weight can be lost through dehydration to make weight, and then subsequently gained back with no detrimental effects. In the sport of weightlifting, on t......
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