Workout of Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Written by RolandWorkout of the Day
Clean 2-2-2
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Double alternating tabata:
- Clean @ 50% of 1 RM
- Burpee side jump over bar
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The benefits of Olympic Weightlifting
Not to beat this topic to death, but I am going to bring it up once more to address anyone who is interested why we include Olympic Weightlifting in our classes. Well, for one: Lifting heavy weights overhead is badass, and I guess nobody really minds that. Wayne send me a link to the Olympic Weightlifting Resource, which talks a bit more in detail about some of the benefits of OW:
- Higher Safety and smaller injury rate than other forms of resistance training. Also, Weightlifting training and competition are much safer than football, soccer, basketball, etc.
- Positive effects on body composition: Lower resting heart rate, increased lean body weight, reduced body fat ond blood pressure.
- Improved athletic abilities (including physical skills such as coordination, accuracy, agility and balance).
- Increased bone density.
- It is actually quite enoyable.
Olympic Weightlifters are the most powerful athletes in the world - and it is not like these athletes have been selected to lift weight: They are so powerful because they lift. We use the Olympic Lifts in our program, because we want all these benefits.
Oh, and by the way: Congratulations to Anton, Graham, Daniel and Roland for achieving their first ever muscle up yesterday. Great job! And well done to the rest of the crew who made great improvements on their transition!!!
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010 09:38
posted by Ellie
That is amazing, FOUR people with their first muscle ups on the same day. Congratulations to all of you!!
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