Tuesday 21 April 2009

Simple Simon

The use and movement of the hip is a vital tool to our athletic ability, yet in facilities outside of CrossFit (I won't call them gyms-although they might) this area is almost completely overlooked and training in a this region is limited to crosstrainer machines and step classes, neither of which have the ability to harness the potential of the hip.
I have previously grumbled about my feelings towards facilities that promote stale, unimaginative, isolationist "exercise" so won't go any further into this here-and may have gone too far already!

And so to our WOD
15 thrusters
15 box jumps
15 sumodeadlift hi pulls
x 5

As you can see all of these movements are big, multi-joint efforts which use the area we're discussing to either propel the bar overhead in the thruster(not out in front-clearly overhead), shift the bar up in the initial movement of the sumo, or to propel our mass onto the box for our jumps.


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