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The most efficient way to perform a snatch if you are trying to lift the most weight possible is different to the most efficient way to perform a snatch if you are doing them for time.
Fortunately for people trying to increase their strength (rather than their metcon), the most efficient way to lift the most weight usually (but not always) correlates with the safest way to perform the exercise. If you have truly excellent technique, you will lift more weight than you could if you have any technical errors.
Unfortunately for CrossFit, which puts at the centrepiece of its methodology performing complex full body movements (like Olympic lifts) for AMRAP within a specific period of time, is that the most efficient way to do an exercie AMRAP is often the least safest way to perform the exercise. This is not real efficiency - it's cheating.
You will find that performing a kipping pullup correctly actually puts you in a position extremely vulnerable to labral tears which you wouldn't otherwise put yourself in if you were doing a normal dead hang pullup. There is actually no safe way to perform this exercise. Plenty in the CF community itself have commented on this - just look at their forums. Many have complained about the lack of CF HQ maintaining injury statistics and the fact that no one has investigated whether the exercise is worthwhile staying in their WODs in light of the risk vs benefit.
It's definitely not the same as injuries resulting from poor deadlift or squat form.
Fortunately for people trying to increase their strength (rather than their metcon), the most efficient way to lift the most weight usually (but not always) correlates with the safest way to perform the exercise. If you have truly excellent technique, you will lift more weight than you could if you have any technical errors.
Unfortunately for CrossFit, which puts at the centrepiece of its methodology performing complex full body movements (like Olympic lifts) for AMRAP within a specific period of time, is that the most efficient way to do an exercie AMRAP is often the least safest way to perform the exercise. This is not real efficiency - it's cheating.
You will find that performing a kipping pullup correctly actually puts you in a position extremely vulnerable to labral tears which you wouldn't otherwise put yourself in if you were doing a normal dead hang pullup. There is actually no safe way to perform this exercise. Plenty in the CF community itself have commented on this - just look at their forums. Many have complained about the lack of CF HQ maintaining injury statistics and the fact that no one has investigated whether the exercise is worthwhile staying in their WODs in light of the risk vs benefit.
It's definitely not the same as injuries resulting from poor deadlift or squat form.
