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Chasing Excellence

How to Warm-Up More Effectively (2:00 Drill #26)

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

Health, Education, Mindset, Crossfit, Wellness, Self-improvement, Holistic Health, Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

We've got some more great questions on this month's 2:00 Drill. We're talking through low intensity for CrossFitters, constructing a useful warm-up, what to say to an athlete right before a performance, and more!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You can watch an entire Chinese weightlifting,

0:02.5

the Chinese Olympic team weightlifting training session.

0:04.8

And what you'll notice is how much time they spend

0:08.0

with an empty barbell in super light loads

0:10.6

doing specific warmups.

0:12.4

Because that's where you improve your moon patterns.

0:14.6

Once you are then into threshold or above,

0:17.9

it's like you shouldn't be thinking about stuff.

0:20.4

So there's a specific warmup to prime the body

0:24.0

for the actual specific moon patterns you are about to do.

0:26.9

In our world, I love to wrap that up with a practice round.

0:31.1

So literally like a, let's say we're doing Christine,

0:34.9

which is row 512 deadlifts, 21 box jumps.

0:38.7

You should actually do a practice round

0:41.1

working on the movements in that order.

0:43.7

So row 100 to 200 meters, do three to six deadlifts

0:49.2

and do three to six box jumps in order at a game pace intensity.

0:54.8

Then take two, three minutes like your heart

0:56.5

come back down and now we're ready to go.

0:59.8

We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives

1:02.4

are within our control.

1:04.2

That taking absolute ownership of how we eat,

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