{"id":1151,"date":"2010-03-20T12:09:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T12:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2010-03-20T12:09:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T12:09:05","slug":"why-crossfit-coaching-sessions-are-priceless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/20\/why-crossfit-coaching-sessions-are-priceless\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Crossfit Coaching Sessions are Priceless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many people have noted from my earlier post, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/18\/build-up-to-the-british-masters-olympic-weightlifting-competition-%E2%80%93-2-weeks-to-go\/\">snatch practice<\/a> for the British Masters has not been going well.  Dropping six 70kg (154lb) snatches in a row, 2 weeks before competition day, is never a good sign.<\/p>\n<p>So this weekend, with 2 sessions back at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/13\/list-and-map-of-crossfit-affiliates-in-the-uk\/\">Crossfit Manchester<\/a>, I desperately needed <strong>the experienced eye of my Crossfit Coach Mark Beck <\/strong>to sort out what on earth was going wrong.  First the result:<\/p>\n<p>Friday: 2 out of 3 snatches at 70kg successful.<br \/>\nSaturday: <strong>3 out of 3 snatches at 70kg<\/strong> successful!<br \/>\n(Plus I did the daily Crossfit Manchester WODs to follow, of course.)<\/p>\n<p>To say I&#8217;m pleased and relieved is an understatement.  In fact, I&#8217;m looking forward to the possibility of having a good crack at a new PB come competition day.  Current PB is 77kg, so opening at 70 looks achievable, giving 2nd and 3rd lifts of 75 and 78 if all goes well.<\/p>\n<p>What was the magic ingredient?  <strong>Simply finishing the pull. <\/strong> It&#8217;s probably one of the hardest things to get right in the snatch: when to stop pulling up on the bar and when to start dropping your body under the bar.  Clearly I&#8217;ve been dropping down too soon and Mark&#8217;s guidance to make sure I properly come up on the balls of my feet, actually feeling the weight there, definitely made the difference.  <\/p>\n<p>Simple huh?  The point is, that even if you workout on your own, it&#8217;s worth making the effort to <strong>get to your closest Crossfit Affiliate<\/strong>, at least once a month say, just to get that bit of expert coaching that can work wonders to your form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many people have noted from my earlier post, snatch practice for the British Masters has not been going well. Dropping six 70kg (154lb) snatches in a row, 2 weeks before competition day, is never a good sign. So this weekend, with 2 sessions back at Crossfit Manchester, I desperately needed the experienced eye of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,115],"tags":[122,31,152,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-1151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-crossfit","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"category-olympic-weightlifting","9":"tag-crossfit-workouts-exercises","10":"tag-manchester","11":"tag-mark-beck","12":"tag-snatch"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}