Israel Costa jumped into a local Crossfit Competition and it exposed some holes in his fitness game. He struggled during the toes to bar and handstand push-ups and had issues with the olympic lifts. Israel knew he needed to improve his strength and gymnastics, but it wasn’t until we sat down and assessed his biggest limiter (upper body mobility) that we knew what direction we needed to go. We progressed the conventional compound lifts (squat, deadlift, and press) from simple to complex and integrated specific mobility exercises into his program to address his front rack and shoulder extension. He has been seeing great improvement and the proof is his very first strict muscle this past week:
Israel will be testing his fitness once again this coming weekend at the Black Sheep Games at Black Sheep Athletics (formerly Crossfit Boynton Beach). Good luck Israel!
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