Integrating the Olympic Lifts with CrossFit*

This article is very interesting to me because I only started to learn OLY lifting in CrossFit. Then I attended to OLY cert and realized I had a lot of work to do. It's all about technique and powering through a WOD with bad technique is not going to make you better. What do you think about this topic? Greg Everett writes:

I have no objections to the use of the Olympic lifts in high-rep, fatigued-state, metabolic conditioning as seen in the typical CrossFit WOD. I do believe, however, that CrossFit athletes will be capable of far greater progress in the long term if the lifts are trained exclusively in isolation during an initial development stage. Granted, CrossFit is predicated on great variety, but the temporary elimination of the Olympic lifts from WOD training will not have any significant limiting effect considering the depth of the CrossFit movement pool. Understand as well that I’m specifying the barbell lifts—this does not include dumbbell, kettlebell, medicine ball, or other implement Olympic lifts. I encourage dumbbell snatches and cleans emphatically at any stage of learning—the movements are different enough to not compete with or disrupt each other.

Some have argued—while defending some heinous technique—that performance of the lifts in the WODs is their practice. It is indeed practice, and very effective—the problem is that it’s practice of poor technique made even poorer by fatigue and limited focus. Performing a movement incorrectly a million times will not magically teach you to perform it correctly; in fact, you’ll find the more time you spend performing it incorrectly, the more trouble you’ll have relearning it correctly.

Greg Everett

FULL ARTICLE HERE:
http://www.cathletics.com/articles/index.php?show=shorty&shortyID=34