Daniel is a former elite athlete and now high level coach.
Daniel Camargo, U.S. International Coach (USAW)
USA Weightlifting Coaching Certification Instructor
Crossfit Level 1 Trainer
Owner, Altamonte CrossFit
Owner, Camargo Oly Concepts
President, Florida Weightlifting Federation
Though the drive was long I´m so happy I decided to go. What an awesome day it was! :) As a Finnish girl you once again could experience the warm and welcoming atmosphere you get from people here in The States. Crossfit is specially known about the community and family. This was proven here again. The owners of the box, Neil Kanterman and Andrea Laxer Kanterman made us feel at home right away :). The group was intimate, with only 15 attendees. There were already certified crossfit coaches but also non certified people who wanted to learn more about the technique. Because of the small group we all could feel comfortable around each other. We already had that small family thing going on where everyone was cheering and being happy for the others success :).
Crossfit Hardcore- The Park
Finally having Daniel in the building, made the day even better. What an awesome person and incredible coach! That man really knew his stuff :). Not just that, but the way he approached people. He made everyone of us feel important.
Daniel started olympic weightlifting when he was 12 years old. At 21 years old, which was his final competitive year, and weighted 83 kg (182.6 lbs), Daniel lifted a 152.5 kg (334 lbs) snatch and 180 kg (396 lbs) in the clean & jerk. This was a Jr. American record. A year after that he started coaching. He has now been coaching for 17 years. So we knew we were in good hands :).
The day started off with the snatch. Daniel had us warm up in 5 min. and made us do snatches with 75% of our 1RM. At this time he and his intern walked around filming everyone. When we were ready with that we went through everyones videos looking at technique and form. WAU! That is all I can say!:) When we thought that peoples forms were quite good he just pointed out small things from here and there to fix. And BOOM! What happens? We go back and fix those small pointers and hit new personal records time after time :). It´s all about the small things, I guess.
We learned not to "hump" the bar, as many coaches use. We don´t "f#%&" the bar either. We hear coaches say, "open that hip". Yes, true. But the hip will open with that explosive jump. We need the triple extension, ankle-knee-hip. I myself had to work on speed. Once the bar leaves the floor it´s moving. I also had to remember to land with my feet flat at the same time my arms extended and trying to take my time in the jump. Not being in a hurry to drop too fast down under the bar. It just takes a lot of practice, patience and experience to learn all of this. But it´s super fun. Even I who really am not that big of a fan of lifting heavy, got inspired now even more :).
It´s all about the face too ;).
Tony had a quite good technique from the beginning. Here he´s warming up for his 1RM.
Here I´m doing a 75 lbs snatch. Later I got up to 95 lbs, which was my new personal record.
Tony´s snatch. He got a new Pr, 165 lbs. Good job my friend! Happy for you!
He even tried 175 lbs. Got it up but could´t keep it. It was so close though, next time.
These faces tell it all! So excited! We both PR:ed our snatches! :)
After the lunch break we moved on to the clean & jerk. Daniel had us work on a heavy clean & split jerk while he was filming us one by one again. After he gave us his feedback we continued on working up to our 1RM.
I learned again a lot about my own technique. With the split jerk I noticed that I have been putting the wrong foot in front. Yes, I´ve heard about the pushing method coaches use when they are trying to find out which foot the athlete should put in front. But I have not thought about it that much more. Daniel sometimes uses this method but he likes more to ask the athlete to go in that position where he or she would go when starting a track and field run. The foot which goes in the back is the more dominate one. That is the more stronger foot, the leading foot in a split jerk. The one which keeps it stable and corrects the balance.
Of course! What have I been thinking? When I snowboard, my right foot is in the back. So why have I been putting it in the front went I do my split jerk? Here we go again, small things :).
When we´re standing up tall from that full clean, before we push it overhead, we have to remember to have that bar in a straight line with our hip, knee and ankle. To get that we put our weight on our heels by lifting our toes in our shoes. This does´t mean that we are lifting the foot from the floor. When coming up you also have time to adjust your hands if you need to. Here Daniel told me to have my elbows more in the front to have more contact with the bar. Before you drive the bar overhead you have to remember to lift your chin to have it out of the way. People were asking if the dip under have to be fast. No, the dip under doesn´t have to be fast but the drive overhead does. From here the bar has to move in a straight line up while you are jumping down in a split, staying in that same line with the bar. Meaning, when the bar travels up you should drop your hip down in that same line.
My split was quite good from the beginning, so I was happy with that :). But of course you get better time by time. You just have to keep on working.
Here I´m having my clean&jerk Pr, 140 lbs. Did the split jerk with my new foot in the front. Later I even tried 145 lbs. Pr:ed my clean with that but could´t get it overhead. Will leave it for next time.
Over all, the day couldn´t have been more perfect! People were getting new Pr´s which of course made Daniel happy. It was nice to see how a person can be so excited and genuinely happy for others. You could really see how much Daniel loves his job. And that reflected on us too. We were excited to learn and practice more! :)
I want to thank Neil and Andrea for the great hospitality and the man of the day, Daniel Camargo! THIS WAS AWESOME!! :) :) THANK YOU!!
-Hanna-
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