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Teaching the Olympic Lifts in the CrossFit Group Setting
Greg Everett
| August 30 2009 |
Training: General
Sometimes your clients are confused. It’s true. Some want to squat to big padded balls instead of just learning where their asses are and squatting like grown-ups all the way to the bottom. Some want to do low-bar back squats. And some aren’t very interested in learning the snatch and clean & jerk. Fortunately, as a trainer or coach, it’s your responsibility to train your clients according to what they need rather than what they want—if they knew what they needed, the......
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Vision of Primal Quest
Cassidy Drake
| July 30 2009 |
Training: General
I have been wanting to write for the Performance Menu for quite some time now. I had individual article ideas that crossed my mind from time to time. However, I wanted to be able to contribute a year-long series in an area that most magazines, TV, or trainers rarely cover. Team Vertical Limit competes in extreme adventure races. Some people known as the “common public” would consider us crazy; we consider it a way to find our true selves, and test the animalistic nature of what we lo......
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CrossFit On-Ramp
Nicki Violetti
| May 31 2009 |
Training: General
Download the Curriculum [PDF]
The way in which new clients are introduced to your Crossfit program can be the deciding factor in whether you retain them for life (and they refer friends, family and co-workers) or they come for one dose and vanish. Perhaps the most common way affiliates bring in n......
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Plandomization: CrossFit, Periodization and Planning
Greg Everett
| April 29 2009 |
Training: General
Periodization has become a bad word in CrossFit Land. My optimistic view on this phenomenon is that it’s due simply to widespread misunderstanding of what exactly periodization is, how variable its implementation can be, and not only its value when used correctly, but its necessity in some form for anyone but the complete beginner. The cynic in me, on the other hand, believes this vehement aversion to periodization of any nature is more a product of frequent bad-mouthing by individuals in ......
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Integrating the Olympic Lifts with CrossFit
Greg Everett
| March 3 2009 |
Training: General
One of the questions I’m asked most frequently is how to integrate Olympic weightlifting with CrossFit training. The lift’s appearance in typical CrossFit programming is often inadequate or unsatisfactory for many athletes. In addition, I’ll be arguing here for learning of the lifts outside standard CrossFit programming until a reasonable level of proficiency is reached.
Greg Glassman once (at least) commented that the Olympic lifts are not remarkably complex movements, maki......
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The Prodigal Chain
Greg Everett
| November 30 2008 |
Training: General
This is a historic issue for the Performance Menu—as far as I can recall, this is its first biblical allusion. This of course has nothing to do with the content of the article itself and knowing this will in no way contribute to the reader’s understanding. But it both entertains me and gives me an easy introduction.
The point is simply that as of late, the posterior chain gets so much attention and credit, and the loyal, reliable anterior chain seems to be regarded with disdain, o......
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Why Dots: The Dot Drill
Josh Everett
| September 30 2008 |
Training: General
My first experience with the dot drill came about in my high school football off-season strength & conditioning program. I remember one day as we went out to the track for conditioning seeing a whole gang of white dots spray-painted on the asphalt leading to the track. The football coach showed us a routine and I was hooked. Of course anything that is turned into a competition or race highly motivates me. In this article I’m going to briefly discuss how and why I use the dot drill as p......
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Interview with Greg Everett: Life & Death Training and More
Jerry Hill
| July 31 2008 |
Training: General
Jerry Hill: Hey, this is Jerry Hill owner of CrossFit Challenge in Oldtown Alexandria Virginia. I am here with Greg Everett, the owner of Catalyst Athletics and publisher of the "Performance Menu Journal". Greg, thanks for being on 'The Call'. Do you want to give us a little bit more about you, a little bio?
Greg Everett: You pretty much covered it there. I guess I can add that I formerly owned one of the very first CrossFit affiliates way back when there were about five......
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A New Way to ME Black Box
Michael Rutherford
| May 29 2008 |
Training: General
Introduction
It was 2004 when I first started integrating M.E. lifts with the CrossFit high intensity randomized protocol. I have since tried some new methods, which have proven successful. They tell me at the Performance Menu that the M.E. articles are the most popular back issues on the shelf. I still receive e-mail each week with questions on the implementation on the template.
The mother ship CrossFit.com with a push from Starting Strength guru Mark Rippetoe now includes a heavy dose ......
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Tumbling Warm-up
Stephane Rochet
| April 30 2008 |
Training: General
During the past six months, the University of San Diego Varsity Weight Room has experienced a modest remodeling. Equipment and power racks were moved in order to clear out a space on one side of the room. This space was then filled with 12’x 42’ of carpet bonded foam tumbling mats. A new warm-up was then introduced to USD student-athletes.
With real estate at such a premium in weight rooms, why did we go to the trouble of moving so much equipment only to fill it with a tumbling ma......
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