Unless you're in the 1% of athletes using their training as part of their profession, forget the weight belt and train without it.

Pulls are necessary in any Olympic lifting programming. Clean pulls are so great in the fact that they allow us to go through all the positions of the clean and reach full triple extension at the top.

As crossfitters we spend a lot of time within the sagittal plane in our wods and training. What we mean by that is when you walk into the CrossFit gym you can just about count on the fact that you will be doing most of the exercises for the day in a 10x10 square in which your legs and arms typically only travel in one direction (up and down or forward and backward).

Got Mobility? Here is a great test for you: try to do an overhead squat with your clean grip. If you struggle to get even halfway with the clean grip this exercise could be a key factor in increasing your shoulder mobility.

Are you RX'ing your workouts or even going 110% in your workouts but still feeling great? Coach Sean from the Active life talks sleeping for performance and why you should not be sacrificing your hours of sleep for more training.

Sotts press is a great exercise for building stability in the bottom position of the snatch and for building mobility.