Practice Makes Permanent
It’s an old spin on the even older saying, but like a lot of old sayings there’s something to it. Sure enough, you can ingrain a bad habit just as easy (maybe easier?) as a good habit. So there’s merit to paying attention to form even in the warmup – because what you do there is likely to carry forward to working under load. Practice makes permanent; perfect practice makes perfect.
With that said, Training is not the same thing as Practice (regardless of what Coach Beard says). When we’re Training there are way more factors than just your sheer movement quality that go into making athletic progress – and the neuroendocrine response of lifting heavy shit is a hugely important part of that. It just cannot be replicated in any other way.
What that means is that effective Training of oly lifts is very different than Practice – because while in Practice we want the form perfect, in Training I want to see the lifts go to the point where the form starts to crack. Working out at the margins is where the big gains live.
So feel free to push those weights in our Strength time – and make it look perfect for as heavy as you can. Even if it no longer looks perfect in the last set, you’ll still benefit from striving for more. (Also, your coaches are here to tell you when you’ve gone past “effectively heavy” and veering into “dangerous”.)
STRENGTH:
Squat Clean
5 reps @70%
5 reps @75%
5 reps @80%
5 reps @85%
WOD:
6 Rounds for Time
12 DB Deadlift (50s/35s)
9 DB Front Rack Lunges
200m Run
* Time Cap 15 mins