Active Stretch
Skill Warm up
10 Inverted Burpees
10 1 pd one handed kettle bell snatches (both arms)
20 Double Unders
WOD
Push Jerk 1-1-1-1-1-1-1 reps
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Therapies for Common Faults During a Squat
Bar Holds: Grab a bar racked higher and closer than your normal reach at bottom of squat, then settle into perfect bottom with chest, head, hands, arms, shoulders, and back higher than usual. Find balance, let go, repeat closer and higher, etc. Lifts squat (raises head, chest, shoulders, and torso) putting more load on heels and glute/hams. This immediately forces a solid bottom posture from which you have the opportunity to feel the forces required to balance in good posture. This is a reasonable shoulder stretch but not as good as the overhead squat. This is a very effective.
Box squatting: Squat to a ten inch box, rest at bottom without altering posture, then squeeze and rise without rocking forward. Keep perfect posture at bottom. This is a classic bit of technology perfected at the Westside Barbell Club.
Bottom to bottoms: Stay at the bottom and come up to full extension and quickly return to bottom spending much more time at bottom than top. For instance sitting in the bottom for five minutes coming up to full extension only once every five seconds, i.e., sixty reps. Many will avoid the bottom like the plague. You want to get down there, stay down there, and learn to like it.
Overhead Squats: Hold broom stick at snatch grip width directly overhead, arms locked. Triangle formed by arms and stick must stay perfectly perpendicular as you squat. Good shoulder stretch and lifts squat. With weight, this exercise demands good balance and posture or loads become wildly unmanageable. The overhead squat is a quick punisher of sloppy technique. If shoulders are too tight this movement will give an instant diagnosis. You can move into a doorway and find where the arms fall and cause the stick to bang into doorway. Lift the arms, head, chest, back, and hip enough to travel up and down without hitting the doorway. Over time, work to move feet closer and closer to doorway without hitting. The broomstick foundation is critical to learning the Snatch – the world’s fastest lift.
String Touch: Hang something on a string, like a tennis ball or shrunken head, at max reach, and touch it at every rep. Alternate hands touching. This is a great Tabata drill. This drill will knock the Tabata Interval score (lowest number of squats in any of eight intervals) down for those people who don’t complete their squats by not fully extending the hip.
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