{"id":2211,"date":"2011-07-04T12:30:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T11:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2011-07-04T12:30:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T11:30:34","slug":"crossfit-olympic-weightlifting-cert-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/04\/crossfit-olympic-weightlifting-cert-review\/","title":{"rendered":"CrossFit Olympic Weightlifting Cert Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Given my rotator cuff tear of the supraspinatus<\/a> I very nearly cancelled going on this weekend’s CrossFit Olympic Weightlifting certification. Boy am I glad I didn’t! I of course had heard that Coach Mike Burgener was, apart from being quite a character, a great Olympic weight lifting coach, but that doesn’t do the man justice.<\/p>\n

To be honest I’m rather struggling for the right words to describe him, without sounding like I’ve been caught in the cult of Burgener! That would be wrong though because Coach B certainly doesn’t have the ego for it<\/strong>. In fact one of the first things he said was that what he teaches isn’t the only way, it’s just his way. Frequently throughout the 2 days he reiterated that many things he was saying were not cast in stone (my words) but would be right for 90% of athletes. This was backed up with videos showing world class weightlifters using differing techniques. It’s all too easy for experts in any field to tout the line: “It’s my way, or the high way!” <\/em> which is not something Mike Burgener does and you can only respect him more for it.<\/p>\n

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When the arms bend, the power ends.<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

One thing that surprised me was the amount of work that was done with just a PVC pipe. But this is a reflection of Mike Burgener’s focus on fundamentals approach. After all, what’s the point of practising the wrong thing? As he said: only perfect practice makes perfect. So the entirety of day 1 was spent on snatch drills with the PVC pipe. Don’t make the mistake of thinking this a bad thing however, it’s a very good thing, and there was plenty of opportunity for people to lift weights under Coach’s expert<\/strong> eye over lunch. Indeed many people pulled off impressive jumps in their personal best lifts, and yes, I’m very jealous I wasn’t able to be one of them!<\/p>\n

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Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Day 2 saw a review of the snatch work from day 1, then clean and jerk drills, this time with an oly bar, though the most I saw being used was 50kg. Sadly I couldn’t participate in about half of the jerk drills due to my torn supraspinatus<\/a> but that’s no bad thing either, as I was able to focus on my coaching skills<\/strong>, which was the main point of the cert after all. It is frustrating to know that there are so many mistakes in my own form now that I can not only identify, but know how to correct, and yet it may be a year or more before I can work on them. That’s life though.<\/p>\n

\"\"I’m not going to go on too much, other than to say, if you have any interesting in Olympic weightlifting, as either a weightlifter yourself or as a coach, you can’t go wrong attending one of Coach Burgener’s CrossFit weightlifting certs. Well worth the cash.<\/strong> And of course you come away with a shiny certificate like this one, which is always nice! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Yay Burpees!<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Given my rotator cuff tear of the supraspinatus I very nearly cancelled going on this weekend’s CrossFit Olympic Weightlifting certification. Boy am I glad I didn’t! I of course had heard that Coach Mike Burgener was, apart from being quite a character, a great Olympic weight lifting coach, but that doesn’t do the man justice. […]<\/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":[94,244,230,272],"class_list":{"0":"post-2211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-crossfit","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"category-olympic-weightlifting","9":"tag-certification","10":"tag-colin-mcnulty","11":"tag-crossfit-workout-exercises","12":"tag-mike-burgener"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211","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=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}