Cross Fit Gripping the Bar with Mike Burgener ( Journal Preview)

CrossFit Journal Preview For more information on CrossFit Specialty Courses, visit: Active shoulders, weight over the base of the feet and, yes, the hook grip. In this snippet from an Olympic Weightlifting Trainer Course, Mike Burgener first talks about keeping the shoulders externally rotated to keep the bar in a strong position overhead. If that bar s up here over your head and you re shrugging your shoulders. .. where does the bar go It goes forward automatically because it becomes an internal rotation, he says. The next point he makes is about keeping the bar over the base of supportthe feet while showing the And, finally, the hook grip. The grip will always beand there is no debate about this either, by the waywhen you re snatching and when you re cleaning, the grip will always be a hook grip, Burgener