TRAVIS HOLLEY: STRICTLY STRENGTH - Session 2

It's FINALLY time!!!

I've received all final CrossFit Total results and the gains were, yet again, awesome! Everyone worked extremely hard for their successes and I enjoyed every single session. This was a group of rockstars!!! Some athletes made small poundage gains, but found that their knowledge and confidence was boosted to new levels!!! Here are a couple testimonials that say it all.

Going into Strictly Strength (SS) I was excited and eager to learn and lift. I have lifted weight for years, but the weights I lifted before and what I learned and performed in SS are two completely different things. Although I think my ending numbers at the end of session 2 could have been better, I walked away from SS with great confidence in my form and my lifting. It has provided me the opportunity to go into a WOD knowing what I can lift really well and what is challenge for me, and to know that I can do my lifts comfortably, not hurt myself and to be strong and confident with it.

I have also learned why a lift has not gone right when it hasn't. I feel it. Either my knees are not open, shoulders not back, body not tight, I now know what I have done wrong, when I have done it and how to correct it.

Also, I appreciate you as a Coach, and taking the time to create and devote to the classes, myself and my lifting mates. The individual attention and encouragement speak volumes. I continue to tell everyone to sign up for SS and I intend to take another class mid 2011 to see if I can get those numbers a bit higher.

Thanks again!

Mary de'Scacchi

Travis,

You asked for feedback from my experience from taking your Strictly Strength program over the past 16 weeks.

Well, I can definitely say that I made significant improvements in my strength especially in the first session. I got stronger in my back squat, dead lift and shoulder press. Yet as awesome as that is, I don’t think it tells the whole story. In Cross Fit we learn, in every class, the right way to perform an exercise by repetition of movement. But during WODs where we move quickly from one movement to the other, form can quickly diminish. In Strictly Strength proper form is reinforced as well, but doing the movements with less repetitions and heavier weight has really reinforced what proper form feels like. Now I know when I’m not performing an exercise correctly before a coach has to tell me. I am much more confident when I perform exercises to push my limits.

Strictly Strength also helped motivate me to dial in my nutrition. Consequently I have seen tremendous improvements in my body, in my ability to perform WODs in class, and how I feel during workouts.

Strictly Strength provided a real boost to my overall performance as a Cross Fitter!

Thanks for your patience, for being a great coach, and for putting up with my stupid jokes!

Sheila de'Scacchi