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Olympic weightlifting Masterclass 19th April : the afternoon experiment

by Andrew April 19, 2012 CFL News
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Crossfit London  had  a great start to its first  1st daytime Olympic weightlifting masterclass ( they are normally on the weekends) We had a small  mixed group of trainers and “normal people” who worked really well over the 3  hours. We got through the material promptly and so were able to get some extra practise [...]

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Snatch Surprise.

by Andrew March 30, 2012 CrossFit London workouts
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Todays Crossfit London Uk session was based around the concept of the “snatch surprise”. The surprise? You guessed it! An hour devoted to nothing but snatches (the much loved Olympic lift): power ,squat. split, you name it, it was snatched: Did we do pull ups? Hell yes, Snatch grip pull ups! So what was the [...]

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Get Olympic Weightlifting: with patient, funny and kind people

by Andrew March 29, 2012 Articles
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The Olympic Lifts ( the snatch and and the clean and jerk) are easy peezy to learn. However,  its still quite a difficult  skill to access quality tuition. Crossfit london is one of the few olympic weightlifting clubs that actively accepts non-lifters and teaches them to snatch from  Scratch (and clean and jerk). However, even [...]

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Women’s Virtuosity: Snatch-tastic

by Kate June 6, 2011 CrossFit London workouts
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The call came in; “My snatch needs improving. If you get to do it in the Women’s class, can you let me know?” Well, just call me DJ Kate: I do take requests from the floor. But be careful what you wish for… So tonight’s ladies’ class was devoted to all things Snatch. It’s so [...]

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WOD 26 Feb: Snatch & Pull Up night

by Andrew February 26, 2011 CrossFit London workouts

A great day of watching peoples snatch form develop and their pull ups get better and better.   Friday night is olympic lifting night, followed by a nasty 10 minute WOD. Tonight it was 100 pull ups, or a practise to develop your pull up strength. Phil  opted for 20kg weighted ones, and katrina played [...]

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