FuBarbell

I’m very excited to announce that you can now train with me online! For those who have attended my FuBarbell seminars and want continued learning, or for those of you who have never trained with me in person and want to develop a working Snatch and Clean and Jerk, then listen up!

Hanging out with Rafe from Evolve Move Play learning Parkour basics.

Having body awareness and body control is fundamental before you can start to move and manipulate with an object. Although gymnastics seems like our fundamental “go to” for such practices, activities such as parkour offers certain freedoms in rhythm that it’s more formal counterpart cannot. Want to see improvement in your Olympic lifts? Spend some time honing in on your bio-machine and watch those kilos rise.

2013 has been an exceptional journey in exploring barbell manipulation. I would say the majority of the coaches I had the pleasure of spending time with along with my personal coaching influences in the USA have all taught what we consider a classic “S” pull in weightlifting where the bar trajectory sweeps in and out before looping overhead or onto the shoulders.

Dmitry Klokov (@klokovd) jerk balances. It’s just amazing to witness the amount of base strength these guys have while performing their assistance exercises. Klokov says he spends about 70% of his time strengthening his back and about 30% of the time strengthening his shoulders. These are his “weak” areas; and when improved, improves his classic lifts as well.

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Everyone could use a little support from time to time, and he’s my biggest fan ❤️

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#tbt, remembering the days when it was cold, wet and zero excuses were given. Christmas is over. Time to get back on that barbell!

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Getting some squats in at The Sports Palace before heading out to spend the next few days with family. Run by Coach Jim Schmitz (@jimschmitz), this is the place where I first grew my roots. The walls have history dating back to the 70s and Jim can recount stories of every Olympic, World, National, and PWA local level meets. I’ve been to many wonderful weightlifting gyms and this is by far still my favorite.

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Messing around down at CrossFit Hollywood continuing to explore different styles of barbell movement.

The Russians and Zygmunt Smalcerz (USOTC resident coach) are teaching a straighter pull off the floor with horizontal movement being mitigated by the act of the hips coming in to make contact with the bar.

My technique with this style of pull is far from perfect, but I will continue to explore and report my findings.

by @dancefightlift “”Good weightlifter” *pat pat*”

Had the pleasure of working with Jackie Perez (@jackie585) today dialing in some snatch technique. I’m very excited with the progress we made on our very first session. The first two lifts (53lbs) is what she came in with at the top of the session with and the last lift (123lbs) is after a solid 90min of work. Nailed it!

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