Announcement: Starting August 1st, we will have classes at 6:30pm AND 7:30pm Monday-Thursday.
Why do we do Olympic lifting?
Oh, so many reasons…let’s share a few:
1. When you move that bar from the ground to overhead, you use a lot of muscles…in fact all of them. Moving the weight through this entire range of motion is extremely effective at burning fat and building muscle. In an 8 week Olympic weightlifting program study, participants lowered their resting heart rate by 8%, lean body weight increased by 4%, fat dropped 6%, and systolic blood pressure decreased by 4%. (Stone, M.H., et al. Cardiovascular Responses to Short-Term Olympic Style Weight-Training in Young Men. Can. J. Appl. Sport Sci. 8(3): 134-9. )
2. Olympic weightlifting has the ability to develop strong healthy bones that are resistant to fractures and prevent osteoporosis. Studies have shows that Olympic weightlifting have a major influence on BMD = STRONG BONES!
3. It will make you a better athlete- all around. Sports and athleticism is about coordination and explosive power. The Oly lifts teach the body to become more efficient in the explosive movements. This forces the body to fire all the muscle fibers at once; to explode with power. By training in Olympic lifting, you learn to engage more of your muscle fibers more rapidly than athletes who have not trained to do so.
5. It’s pretty frickin’ cool to pick up heavy shit and throw it over your head!
WOD:
Every minute on the minute: 3 power cleans.
Remainder of the minute → air squats
Your workout is over when you have completed a total of 150 air squats