Workshops/Vids

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The summer is open for doing workshops around the country and potentially the world. There are now two different kinds of workshops that 70’s Big presents:

1. Programming workshops
These workshops have a focus on learning the fundamentals of programming strength, conditioning, and then a combination thereof. These workshops also include a “lift around” where attendees can get form checks, learn a new movement, or practice coaching.

2. Lifting workshops
This type of workshop is more focused on the lifting. After a brief fundamentals lecture on equipment (especially belt use), mechanics, and prehab/rehab/mobility for lifters, the day is focused on lifting. All lifts are fair game: squat, press, bench, deadlift, snatch, and clean and jerk. The gym owner and/or attendees will dictate what lifts are included, but the stock plan is to get work on the strength lifts.

It’s also possible to combine these workshops for a two day weekend event. If you are interested in hosting a workshop, e-mail Justin@70sbig.com. If you want to attend a workshop and want to campaign for 70’s Big to come to your city, shoot an e-mail (it will help if you have a place in mind or know someone who is interested in hosting). Please note that tank-tops, facial hair, aviator sunglasses, beer, and meat will be a constant presence in these workshops.

Denver, June 8
There will be a Lifting Workshop in Denver, CO at CrossFit LoDo on Saturday, June 8th, 2011. A full schedule with details will be released soon.

Australia
I’ve been working with my mate on getting a workshop in Sydney, Australia. We are going to tentatively plan a date in July, but need to gauge interest before spending money on travel. We will have a “registration” (with no payment) process until June. If we don’t get enough people by then, we’ll call it off. If we do, then we’ll finalize the schedule for the workshop a month later. E-mail Justin@70sbig.com if you are an Aussie who is interested.

Videos You Should See

Most of these vids are old, but impressive. Weightlifting doesn’t get enough attention on this site.
World record snatch in training, 202.5kg:


Listen to the fucking music they are jamming to (from bsmith9):


Berestov presses 150kg for an easy single:


Koklyaev push-pressing fucking 200kg for a triple:


This happened yesterday. 220kg for 10 reps.


AC and I were laughing about this chick’s vids. Feel free to pick it apart. We aren’t just assholes, so tell me what is wrong with her teaching, the lift, and the mechanics. Then go back to being an asshole.

47 thoughts on “Workshops/Vids”

  1. As the honorary first commenter, I’d like to say that her fake tits are pretty nice. That said, I facepalmed during the remaining 2:38 of the video.

  3. I’d love to come to the Aussie workshop, but Sydney is just too far away. I’d love to see you in Perth but I can’t imagine you’d get enough people

    We will get drunk and yell in the rugby stadium without you, then.

    –Justin

  4. Keep in mind, guys, that this is not a high rep exercise–3 or 4 sets of 8 sounds about right.

    Also, her elbows are not locked out–but her arms are STRONG.

  5. I think her grip is far too narrow. Her arms are “strong” but her shoulders are not active and her elbows aren’t locked. I guess her bar path is fine considering she doesn’t break parallel or go into the hole. It’s hard to tell where her knees are going from the angle so no comment there. I could watch it again to see, but I could also squirt Sriracha in my eyes.

    She is however wearing the only acceptable form of footwear. IOC standard if I recall.

  6. Is that Kendrick? And he’s not seriously training for the CrossFit games? Dude sounds more like a troll and not a real CrossFitter. I’ve been around enough of them to know that they don’t call it the CrossFit Games, but simply “The Games”. As if there hasn’t been any other type of games in existence for the past over the past 100 years.

  9. @SeanR re: Kendrick.

    commentator trolling. Kendrick (and Jared Fleming) have occasional 10rep weeks, dubbed “Endurance Intensity Cycle”.

    Basically hit a 10rm, then do two more sets of 10 at 95% and 90% of the 10rm. Brutally hard.

  12. Her depth (maybe an issue with her flexibility?) reminded me of something I was thinking about the other day. Those who don’t lift are fond of telling me how gaining a significant amount of muscle means that you lose all your flexibility and conditioning and that you’re slow and rigid, yet I am twice as flexible and three times as conditioned as any of the people who say this to me. Odd.

  14. I can’t wait to showcase my snatch at my next ‘powerlifting meet.’ Why doesn’t she just stick to teaching people how to enter/exit the machines, and placing the pin in and out of the stack.

  15. So good to see Kendrick back and strong as hell after dropping his jerk at the Arnold!

    I feel bad for Misha’s squat rack

    No better way to keep a “rock solid core” then inhale on the way down and exhale on the way up.

  16. I super love Kendrick.

    And, yes, thank you for that powerlifting overhead squat video. I’m glad that she can’t even manage to jerk that empty bar from behind the neck in order to OHS it. Because it is super heavy. However, I do support her belief that OHS are “not a high rep exercise.” Perhaps she can discuss that with Glassman for me.

    BTW, I overhead squatted 148 lbs on Monday. Not for high reps.

  20. this is becky. too lazy to log saul out. just wanna say that PR friday can’t come soon enough. and the strongman in minneapolis is this saturday. so fucking stoked. maybe i’ll have some nice videos to share.

    @Tbone—nice OHS. pretty sweet. i’ve only done them twice now in my training, and if i remember correctly i did something like 120 last time. super fun to mix it up.

  21. Her knees seem to drift toward each other in the bottom of the squat. But I see this happen ALL THE TIME to lady lifters, even the ones who actually train with heavier weights.

    What gives? Is this a common occurrence with women, and is there a remedy for this phenomenon?

  23. @MKingW–
    It’s probably related to Q angle, which has been linked to the higher incidence of ACL tears, PFPS, etc. in female athletes, particularly in sports like soccer and basketball.

    Long story short, wider hips (in women as compared to men) tend to push knees in where they’re more likely to buckle and get injured. It can be overcome with mobility work and focus on correct movement.

    She’s also not shoving her knees out, so her femur is probably impinging on her ASIS.

    You guys should watch the other vids. I took a vote on whether or not we should have used the deadlift or OHS vid.

    –Justin

  24. Right–I wasn’t suggesting that Q angle could be used as an excuse for crappy form, especially because I’ve seen plenty of women who definitely can get their knees out if they want to. Just that it is a factor, particularly for someone who hasn’t learned the right way to do things.

    I was just adding to what you said, not making it irrelevant.

    –Justin

  27. wait. holdup. antigen and Becky are in mpls? I have a rugby tournament all day Saturday, but where is the Strongman thing? also, where do you two lift, if that isn’t too stalkerish? just curious, because I can’t find a gym like the press that isn’t the press. any tips?

  28. @ SEANR re: Kendrick

    Of course the camera guy is trolling… do you really thing Kendrick would waste his time with the Crossfit Games?

  33. There is so much stupid shit occuring in that video I have nothing smart to say. That video is a prime example why the fitness industry is a freakin’ circus act these days.

    That is all. Carry on.

  35. @x156

    I’m actually one of those shitty trainers at the burnsville La Fitness… I’m in the process of moving, but I’ll be in Bloomington/richfield as of June. north loop would be a hike.

    don’t hate me. I’m just trying to help those poor souls at the globo-gym. and the director backs real lifts and is anti machine training. as soon as it gets goddamn nice out she’ll let me teach outdoor Strongman style classes. kinda rad.

  37. @ last video, what a bro-ette (referring to the above parallel SQ)

    LoL, “not a high rep exercise, I’d suggest 3 to 4 sets of 8 reps”.

    Anything over 5 reps is high reps.

    Oh yeah, and she broke Gold’s policy on barbell exercises – she didn’t have a belt or a spotter.

  38. @jsprudhom—

    yeah, the press is the shit. seriously. strong dudes there.

    the movement (it’s a box) is also the shit. that’s where we did the TSC.

    we lift at augsburg college, which is in the cedar-riverside neighborhood of mpls. it’s just south of the U of M. we live a couple miles away, so we bike there most days. don’t bother visiting the U of M gym, it’s totally worthless…and a poor excuse for a “fitness center”.

    the only gyms i would recommend in the area are movement, press, and augsburg. i really can’t think of anywhere else that’s worth your time to hike to….as in, a place that has bumpers, platforms, and real racks.

    i know there is some sort of fitness place in calhoun square, right on the corner of hennepin and lagoon, but everyone there is a 90s small buffoon. i was able to squat there once…but it was not a good atmosphere.

    hope that helps.

  41. this is becky again. yes, lukewarm hip hop fan. yes, familiar with rhymesayers! brother ali is probs the most incredible hip hop artist i can think of at the moment. also can’t forget about doomtree, especially dessa.

  42. @Eric & Justin

    Thanks for the feedback. I constantly see girls at my gym with knees that collapse inward when squatting, even air squats, and a couple of ladies whose knees do that when they walk.

    ACL tears are exactly what I worry about, especially with the ones whose knees overlap when they walk. I’d like to offer them advice on how to correct it but I don’t know what to say.

    I mean, I’m just a troll. Not a certified personal trainer.

    I’ve never heard of an ACL injury occurring when squatting. That doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened, but if anyone is fucking their knees up on a full depth squat, they are doing something majorly wrong (like getting hit by Ray Lewis while doing it).

    –Justin

  43. @Becky – Thanks. I haven’t had any OHS in my programming since last year, and they just got added back in mainly from a mobility standpoint. I like them because I am fairly good at a heavy single, but more than one rep at a time totally wrecks my wrists.

    120 lbs is solid. You could have done CF Open 11.4 at the men’s Rx’d weight and then laughed at all the guys who couldn’t hit that for a single rep. Not that I would ever do something like that.

  44. antigen, I break into the hamline gym pretty often in St Paul. its a good one. you should check that out.

    I have nothing against the press but the location. I’d love to train there, aside from being pathetically weak by press standards..

    BTW, I hear the St Paul campus of the u of m is much better. few guys on my rugby team lift there.

    speaking of which, come play rugby.

  46. @MKingW (if you’re still checking this)–

    As Justin said I’ve never heard of an ACL injury from squatting either, but squatting correctly can definitely help minimize the risk of ACL injuries in female athletes. There was a NY Times article awhile back talking about trying to fix that epidemic in women’s soccer through strength work to strengthen the knee’s supporting structures and through teaching women to run and jog with better and stronger form. I’ll see if I can dig it up.

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