CrossFit Journal Articles

• Medicine Ball Cleans
  The clean and jerk and the snatch, the Olympic lifts, present the toughest learning challenge in all of weight training.
• The Clean
  In its finest expression the clean is a process by which the hips and legs launch a weight upward from the ground to about bellybutton height and then retreat under the weight with blinding speed to catch it before it has had the time to become a runaway
• Weight, Velocity & Volume in Medicine Ball Training
  With medicine ball training, velocity or a combination of velocity and weight should always be the overload mechanism of choice. This is the mechanism of the Olympic lifts and their variations. Olympic weightlifting’s generation of horsepower through th
• Teaching the Clean to Kids
  At a Level 1 Cert, trainers break the med-ball clean down into five easily digestible steps. When training kids, you have to break things down even further. With a complicated movement like the clean, it’s not practical to go through a host of progre
• Spanish Med-Ball Clean
  Maggie Dabe from CrossFit Fairfax is one of CrossFit HQ’s traveling seminar trainers. Originally from Ecuador, she explains our standard cues and faults for the med-ball clean entirely in Spanish.