June 2020

The handstand push up can be one of the most intimidating movements in the gym – not only are you upside down, but we are asking you to balance on your hands and at the same time press your entire body weight. It’s pretty awesome once you crack the handstand push up though. Just like everything we do at CrossFit Central Wellington, the set up (and where you put your hands) is going to be super important in getting your HSPUs cranking. This is absolutely something that we can all be working on while we are locked away in our houses

Shoulder to Overhead – the motion of taking something from your shoulders, and putting it over your head… Today we deep dive into the wonderful world of barbell cycling, and focus on the Shoulder to Overhead. The idea – quicker and more efficient transitions between reps, while maintaining quality technique. You’ve probably already guessed, but this content isn’t really going to apply to heavy weights and low reps. Sure, it can, but if it does – that ‘heavy’ weight you’re lifting, ain’t that heavy. You shouldn’t be able to do this with your 1RM Jerk. This is addressing those workouts

Todays deep dive will focus on two specific topics around running, firstly we’ll look at stride length and how you can focus on increasing yours and secondly cadence. As you can probably figure out, your running speed depends on the length of each stride and the rate at which you turn strides over (cadence). If you want to go faster, you have to increase either stride length or stride turnover… or both. Most untrained runners have both a short stride length and slow cadence, this deep dive looks at how we can increase both of these making our running more efficient.

Back Squat: Form focus Ok let’s get deep into some squat stance, femur length, torso angle chat…please contain your excitement! There are a few things that everyone can do to help find a better squat position (I will talk about a couple soon) but there is one thing that is going to dictate the mechanics of your squat that no amount of mobility, new shoes or Russian squat programmes is going to change and that’s your femur length! Like it or not its going to be harder for a person with long femurs to keep a nice upright instagram perfect’