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CrossFit Seminar Staff member Julie Foucher demonstrates the Dumbbell Overhead Walking Lunge - here we are adding two elements of instabiility - first holding the weight overhead and second, using dumbells instead of barbells. Barbells do create more stability and allow one arm to compensate for the other, while dumbells force each arm to hold...

Moving on from the Dumbell Push Jerk, CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart demonstrates the Dumbbell Split Jerk, which builds on our Dumbell Push Jerk by dropping into a lunge rather than a semi-dip. This allows us to drop to a greater depth and thus lift a heavier weight. Points Of Performance Stand on feet...

CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart demonstrates the Dumbbell Push Jerk. Very similarly to the barbell Push Jerk, we are aiming to drop under the dumbells as we press them up (but only after the hips are fully extended). This makes it easier to lift more weight, as the arms don't need to work as...

CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart demonstrates the Dumbbell Thruster, which is really just a combination of the Dumbell Front Rack Squat and the Dumbell Push Press. Initially squatting, with the dumbells racked on the shoulders, you drive through the heels to create an explosive upward movement once the hips fully extend, at which point...

Following on from the Dumbell Overhead Press last week, today CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart demonstrates the Dumbbell Push Press, where we dip and drive from the heels in order to generate momentum with the hip extension, thereby making it easier to press up with the arms. As well as providing more instability, using...

CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart demonstrates the Dumbbell Press. Using dumbells for any overhead movement creates an element of instability and forces each arm to work independently. With the barbell, the stronger arm can sometimes compensate for the weaker arm and so varying your style of weights can help to address this. In this...

Dumbells haven't featured heavily in CrossFit, at least not as much as Barbells, but all that changed at the 2017 CrossFit Open. In 2017, not a single barbell was featured at either the CrossFit Open or the CrossFit Regionals - Dumbells, and to some extent kettlebells, were used instead. Since it looks like dumbells are...

The Kettlebell Snatch, as demonstrated here by CrossFit Seminar Staff member James Hobart, is a great single arm exercise for developing all the similar strength and movement technique as the barbell Snatch, but with a few extra benefits: - strengthens the stabiliser muscles in the shoulders - addresses any left-right imbalances that may compensate for...

CrossFit has defined 9 Foundational Movements, which provide a greatly rounded starting point for anybody starting out with CrossFit. These are niely combined in this video, which covers: Air Squat Front Squat Overhead Squat Shoulder Press Push Press Push Jerk Deadlift Sumo Deadlift High Pull Medicine Ball Clean

CrossFit Seminar Staff member Julie Foucher demonstrates the dumbbell swing, a movement that isn't seen very much as it is not as favoured as the kettlebell swing. The Dumbell doesn't lend itself to the swing in quite the way the ketttlebell does, but as you can see from the demonstration, it makes a perfectly good...