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Bottom position leaving you a little bummed out? Something to consider for my master athletes and/or mobility challenged friends is the underutilized (under appreciated) split snatch/clean. This style of movement was commonly used up until the early 70s until the more efficient squat style came on the scene mesmerizing people with its flashy dance moves. Although the returns can be high, squatting places extreme demand on mobility in key corners of the body while the split can offer up similar returns while keeping your trunk upright like a pillar of strength. Yours, always, for consideration.

Working on cleaning up my clean. Missed 88kg/193lbs for the last 2 weeks, but this week was much closer. Going to try a few strategies on shoring up that receiving position so the bar doesn’t keep melting off my rack.

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Did a podcast with the boys from @barbellshruggedpodcast yesterday. They showed me a cool little warm-up they do with their athletes to teach them the feel of bringing the bar into the power position called the Thacker method — named after Justin Thacker from The Lab in St. Louis, Missouri.

Day 1 of FuBarbell snatch workshop done! Thanks to the community of CrossFit SkyBox for hosting and thanks to all the athletes that attended from near and far. It’s been great meeting and interacting with more of our Bay Area athletes. We’ll be back next month for some clean & jerks!

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FuBarbell team clean & jerk highlight reel from the PWA Fall Classic at Lincoln High School.

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FuBarbell team at the PWA Fall Classic hosted by Lincoln High School today.

Calen Hall went 4/6 with a 197 total at 77kg BW.

Shanna Guzman went 5/6 with a 103 total at 58kg BW.

Christine Carosi went 3/6 with a 143 total at 69kg BW.

Kristin Newman went 5/6 with a 165 total at 75kg BW.

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We’ve been incorporating these Chinese-style high pulls into our programming this past month. The eventual goal is to have this movement help with the timing and tempo from 2nd to 3rd pull, but so far we all just feel kind of silly trying to develop the rhythm of coordinating the elbow drive with the knee release.

For those of you wanting to give this one a whirl, start light at around 80% of your 1RM and practice 3-5 sets of 2-4 reps. Don’t know your 1RM? No problem, go for something that feels like a 7-8/10 effort where 10 is a maximal load and go from there.

Hannah Kang (@hanagrams) has the most efficient jerk here at FuBarbell moving 178lbs/81kg at 130lbs/59kg BW. Not too shabby at all.

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Wanna get to know me more? Thank you @WodNut for putting together this cool little interview.

Find it here: www.wodnut.com/blog

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We’ve all heard the benefits of training with a partner, with a club, watching YouTube videos of high level lifters do their thing.

Part of it is the psychological push of training with someone(s) better than you and sharing the common goal of trying to level up the playing field. But the other part is what we all wished we could do back when we were still in school: learn through osmosis while we slept drooling over our text books.