Monday, January 5, 2009

Weighted overhead squats

Balance,accuracy, strength, flexibility, and core strength are just some of the benefits of the overhead squat. Yes the load is much, much smaller than the front or back squat but moving the weight through the full range of motion locked over head builds strength throughout the body in essence as Dan John wrote "It makes the body one piece." . It is unforgiven of form mistakes and there is no cheating with the movement. The gold standard is 15 straight reps with the athletes body weight loaded onto the bar.

Training:
Overhead squat practice then work sets weighted

What Favre did:
Hang power-clean 7x1






Thanks to Crossfit and Ironmind

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