From elite athletes to weekend warriors and Crossfit mums, these tips will help you to improve your technique, stay safe, have fun with every single one of these Crossfit exercises.
Simply choose the exercise that you want to work on below then click on that page using the list or the numbers at the bottom. Have fun and keep training hard!
SNATCH
Learning the Snatch technique is one of the hardest skills to master. It contrasts with the clean and jerk, in that it favours the athleticism attributed to a gymnastic body-type over the ‘gym-bro’, who may be struggling to learn the snatch after years spent believing that parallel squats were the lowest one could possibly go, and the overhead squat was a mere fairytale.
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Sara Sigmundsdottir in action
CLEAN
The Clean is a lift that requires power, posture, skill and strength. Here is how to do it properly, break through plateaus, and raise your lifts to the next level.
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Cleaning time!
FRONT SQUAT
The Front Squat has always been a staple exercise in Olympic weightlifting programs, as it serves as the base for the catch position in the clean. But since people tend to lift more weight with Back Squats and may find keeping the rack position of the bar difficult, front squats are often neglected.
When done correctly, Front Squats will:
- Increase the depth of the movement
- Improve core strength
- Activate glutes
- Improve related exercises such as Thrusters or Squat Cleans
- Build Strength
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Stay strong!
OVERHEAD SQUAT
The overhead squat is the ultimate core exercise, the heart of the snatch, and peerless in developing effective athletic movement. This demanding exercise reveals every lack of mobility without mercy.
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The overhead Squat is highly useful for developing your snatch
OVERHEAD PRESS
The Overhead Press (also known as the Strict Press or Shoulder Press) is a compound exercise that involves lifting a weighted barbell overhead to a fully locked out position with the strict use of the shoulders and arms.
Pressing the bar overhead is still one of the most useful upper body exercises you can do. This highly effective exercise involves the entire body. Your feet, legs, glutes, core, abs, hips, ankles and wrists help to stabilise the body whilst your shoulders, upper chest, back and arms press the bar overhead.
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move well and get strong!
BENCH PRESS
The bench press is not a common exercise in Crossfit, yet it can be a great way to build power and improve lock out strength and overhead press movements for other lifts.
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Develop your chest
PUSH PRESS
The Push Press isn’t just another shoulder exercise, it’s a move that builds strength and power throughout the entire body and core. If you want strong, healthy shoulders you should be working the press hard at least once a week. That alone will make a huge difference to your performances.
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train hard!
BACK SQUAT
The right breathing, bracing setup, and technique throughout the movement will help you stay tight and lift BIG in the squat: The KING of strength exercises.
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The king of strength exercises
DEADLIFT
“There is no reason to be alive if you can’t do DEADLIFT”
John Pall Sigmarsson: 4x winner of the World’s Strongest Man Competition.
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A powerful full body strength exercise
SQUAT JERK
The Squat Jerk is an impressive and technically difficult lift, but if you aren’t scared to challenge yourself and love to learn new things, then read on.
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Squat Jerk in competition
SPLIT JERK
The Split Jerk is a movement that requires immense amounts of power and technique and in contrast with the push or power jerk, is used to lift the most weight. If you want to push your Clean and Jerk PR through the roof, perfect this technique.
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The Split Jerk in action
BARBELL ROW
The Barbell Row is one of the most effective assistance exercises you can do to increase your Squat, Bench Press and Deadlift. It will improve the strength of your back, hips and grip and even be useful for improving the power of your Pull Ups and Muscle Ups.
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Technique for the exercise
THRUSTER
A combined front squat and push press, this punishing exercise can be a real killer!
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Thrusters will set your legs on fire
PULL UP
The Pull Up is one of the classic physical tests of functional strength. Improve your ability today!
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Timeless and highly effective
RING MUSCLE UP
This tricky gymnastic exercise takes a great deal of effort to get right. With the right progressions and accessory exercises, you will have it mastered in no time!
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Annie Thorisdottir on the rings
BAR MUSCLE UP
The Bar Muscle Up is a tough exercise to get right! Use these technique tips and watch out for these common problems to avoid and you will get there in no time.
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Brooke on the bar
RING HANDSTAND PUSH UP
The Ring Handstand Push Up was first seen at the 2010 Games, but made a comeback earlier this year in the Carson sunshine at the 2016 CrossFit Games®. The crowds watched in awe as athletes such as Josh Bridges, Camille Leblanc-Bazinet and Annie Thorisdottir completed a tough workout that contained Ring Handstand Push Ups – aptly named the separator – in style.
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Ring Handstand Push Ups. Dave Castro decides to bring a new exercise into the Games
HANDSTAND PUSH UP
Handstand push ups are a great way to build strength, balance and improve your gymnastic skills. Try these tips to help you improve.
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Tricky to master, but these will make you strong!
HANDSTAND WALK
Handstand Walks are fun to do but frustrating to master! Use this 5-step progression to get yours sorted now!
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gymnastic skills are vital for crossfit!
DOUBLE UNDERS
We all know how difficult double unders can be! Timing is more important than speed, and precision is absolutely vital for successfully mastering this common exercise in Crossfit workouts. Check out more tips here:
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keep pushing forwards
WALL BALLS
Wall Balls hurt. They are one of those exercises that really test you deep down, making your legs and arms scream out for you to stop. Here are 5 tips to help you get much, much better at them.
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The daughter of Thor
BOX JUMPS
This deceptively simple exercise quickly leads to fatigue in workouts. With the combination of explosive movements and high rep ranges, small tips can make big differences to avoiding getting too tired too quickly. Pick up a few tips to help you out here:
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Train hard and train smart
BURPEES
There are so many fun, exciting exercises with barbells or challenging gymnastics skills, and then there are burpees…
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Burpee time
ROPE CLIMBING
The truth behind Rope Climbs is that they require only a reasonable level of upper body and grip strength. Great technique will allow you to generate force with your legs and propel you up the rope in a highly efficient way!
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scale the heights
CROSSFIT EXERCISES: KETTLEBELL SWING
The perfect exercise to train the complete posterior chain, strengthen your posture and work on your overall strength and conditioning.
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