Your three pillars of practice are doing, watching, and visualizing. Fact of the matter is, you get better at what you do. Practice the Olympic-style lifts and muscle-ups and you’ll get better at Olympic-style lifts and muscle-ups. And that’s where most people stop. However, research has shown that watching someone do an activity activates the same parts of your brain that control the body in doing that same movement. So watching someone do clean & jerks or muscle-ups will make your brain do clean & jerks and muscle-ups. This has virtually the same affect on learning as self visualization, which has also been shown to improve a person’s ability to perform a particular activity or task. The challenge is putting it into your already too busy schedule. Start today by choosing one thing you want to be better at and commit to spending 10-minutes a day for thirty days, either watching a video or visualizing you performing that movement or exercise. Record these practice sessions in your training journal along with the results of your physical training. Then come back and let us know what happens.
Workout of the Day
For max load:
Sumo-deadlift, 1×5
For anyone who’s curious, here’s how CrossFit Missoula structures our rep-max days. All lifts are calculated off your current 1RM (one rep max).
Warm-up sets:
50% x 5 reps
60% x 3 reps
70% x 2 reps
Work sets:
1- 80% x 1 rep
2- 85% x 1 rep
3- 90% x 1 rep
4- 95% x 1 rep
5- 105% x 1 rep
Drop sets:
80% x 1 rep x 3 sets
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