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Clean and jerk. Pure, simple, and functional. Beautiful to watch, and incredibly fun to perform and practice. When things are on, they're on. You feel it. This was a gooood day at CFSF.

Clean & jerk 1-1-1-1-1-1-1

Russell- 195
Todd McK- 100
Derrick- 210
Eric- 195
Allie- 105
Casey- 205
Erin- 150
Matt- 165
Kathryn- 120*
Byron- 205
Juan- 185
Holley- 82
Candice- 100*
Britt- 145
Dave- 145
Abby- 115*
Richard- 200
Delaina- 100
Teresa- 130*
Anna- 65
Heather- 110*
T- 180

F*ckin' A bubba! Great workout everybody! Lots of *PR's, and some heavy, heavy lifts. More importantly, everyone is getting dialed in. Patience, timing, and speed are all looking good. Your practice is paying off.

Unless otherwise specified, we allow either a Power clean, or full Clean, a Push jerk, or Split jerk. We saw it all. A few guys pulled off some heavy full Cleans; Casey, Eric, and Russell checked in with a cool 195 pound full Clean. Hooyah guys.

One interesting fact about Olympic weightlifters is that they have been found to have higher vertical leaps and quicker 25 meter sprint times than any other athletes including Olympic high-jumpers and sprinters.

The technical explanation for this is that the weightlifters have better "speed strength" than any other athletes. Speed strength is defined as a combination of starting-strength (the ability to fire as many muscle units instantaneously) and explosive strength (the ability to keep these motor units firing once turned on).

The more useful explanation as to why they can out sprint and out leap all others is quite simply, because they weightlift. Weightlifting is the sport of Olympic lifting, the Clean and jerk, and the Snatch.

This is why we weightlift at CFSF. Olympic weightlifting is unsurpassed in developing lightning quick athletic movement and has enormous carryover to all explosive sport. CFJ, Jan. 2006

Thanks for another great day at CFSF. Thanks for all the hard work, monster efforts, and good times.

Better, stronger, faster.
CFSF