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http://youtu.be/IJZpz5C1dAA

This is what CrossFit does to your brain. This movement, toes to bar, was programmed this morning in our WOD. So, of course, now, at 9p, I have finally sat down and rested my body...since 745p or so when my son went to bed, so about and hour and fifteen minutes.  People, I am sooooooooore.  

Which means, yay I made my workout this morning.  Woop woop!  Which also means since I have turned on my CrossFit brain that I'm youtubing movement videos at 9p. I was trying to help some peeps this morning by telling them to pull the bar apart, which will turn on your lats.  I'm not certified (yet) so I didn't press the issue when my instructions didn't seem to make a whole lot of sense (at 545a). 

This video is great. If we nail knees to elbows by putting our body in that rocking motion (scapular pull up -turning the lats on) all we have to do is kick the bar. Right?  Easy as that. (they say. It'll be fun they say). 

Pass the Deep Blue!!!  


*coach is Chris Spealler, a CrossFit Games athlete. 
"2010 CrossFit Games" on @Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_CrossFit_Games?wprov=sfti1

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  1. ckargoApril 20, 2015 at 8:12 PM

    I would give the cue of trying to "break" the bar to turn on the lats :)

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