Wednesday
WOD:
Power Snatch
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Mike Burgener coaching his daughter Sage through a demo of the Power Snatch
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This Week: Be Prepared
How do you prepare for a lift day? It’s not just physical preparation, but mental as well. A good way to physically prepare is with a good warm up. So often on lift days, we see a lot of you doing the CrossFit warm up, but there are warm ups for the lifts as well. At Carolina CrossFit, we are huge fans of the “Burgener Warm Up” before olympic lifts. The Burgener warm up is written on the white board, but if you are unsure of exactly how to execute it properly, you should have a trainer take you through it and watch your technique. As coach Burgener always says, “Practice does not make perfect, PERFECT PRACTICE makes perfect.” So make sure that even if you are only doing the warm up with a PVC, that your technique is flawless. If you’re not sure if you’re moving well, get a trained eye on you, don’t just assume you are doing it correctly and throw weight on the bar.
To prepare mentally, visualize yourself being successful on lift days, and get in to the routine. Do not allow distractions to keep you from focusing on the task at hand. Do not worry about what’s on the bar, just believe that you are strong enough and tough enough to move that weight. Set yourself up for success by believing in your capabilities as an athlete and use that confidence to pull you through the lift session. You have to WANT to do it, to move the weight, to be stronger than you thought you could be. Never give up.
“The human spirit can endure a sick body, but who can bear it if the spirit is crushed?” ~Proverbs 18:14
