Diane Fu's "Footwork for Olympic-Style Lifting" Online Video Workouts on ALO Wellness Club
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Difficulty & Intensity Guide

This comprehensive guide will help you find which series is right for you

Difficulty Levels

Difficulty refers to the level of skill and technique called for in a class.

Introductory

Introductory classes are designed for those who have never taken a yoga or fitness class before.

As a step below the beginner level, introductory classes move at a slow pace, take time to break down each pose and exercise, and are shorter in length to help you build endurance as you create a new movement routine. These classes are generally bodyweight only and contain modifications to help you feel safe and supported.

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Beginner

Beginner classes are geared toward those who have very little exposure to yoga or fitness.

These classes offer many modifications and detailed instructions on fundamental poses and exercises. Beginner classes are perfect for someone who is looking to start a regular yoga practice or fitness routine, though they’re also suitable for all levels to practice and brush up on the basics with alignment and form. You can also find mindfulness and wellness in this category.

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Moderate

As the next step up from beginner classes, moderate classes include higher-level modifications and less detailed instruction than you would find in a beginner class.

Moderate classes are well-suited for those who have previous yoga and fitness experience and a basic understanding of poses, exercises, and class structure. This is an excellent choice if you’re trying to maintain consistency in your routine and increase your strength, skills, and flexibility with a class geared toward all levels.

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Intermediate

Looking for a challenge? Intermediate classes tend to weave in more challenging poses and high-intensity exercises at a faster pace.

These classes will help build your strength, deepen your flexibility, and enhance your body awareness. For yoga classes, you can expect creative transitions, options for arm balances and inversions, and workout-inspired flows. For fitness classes, expect heavier weights, a higher sweat factor, and a quick pace that challenges your strength and cardio endurance.

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Advanced

These classes offer the perfect opportunity to explore your potential beyond what you’ll find in typical all-levels studio classes.

Advanced classes are designed for those with a strong and consistent yoga and fitness routine. Expect advanced-level inversions, arm balances, and backbends; challenging peak pose variations; deep flexibility; strength work; and tricky transitions. You’ll find your edge while exploring a greater level of strength, control, and skill work.

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Introductory

Introductory classes are designed for those who have never taken a yoga or fitness class before.

As a step below the beginner level, introductory classes move at a slow pace, take time to break down each pose and exercise, and are shorter in length to help you build endurance as you create a new movement routine. These classes are generally bodyweight only and contain modifications to help you feel safe and supported.

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Beginner

Beginner classes are geared toward those who have very little exposure to yoga or fitness.

These classes offer many modifications and detailed instructions on fundamental poses and exercises. Beginner classes are perfect for someone who is looking to start a regular yoga practice or fitness routine, though they’re also suitable for all levels to practice and brush up on the basics with alignment and form. You can also find mindfulness and wellness in this category.

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Moderate

As the next step up from beginner classes, moderate classes include higher-level modifications and less detailed instruction than you would find in a beginner class.

Moderate classes are well-suited for those who have previous yoga and fitness experience and a basic understanding of poses, exercises, and class structure. This is an excellent choice if you’re trying to maintain consistency in your routine and increase your strength, skills, and flexibility with a class geared toward all levels.

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Intermediate

Looking for a challenge? Intermediate classes tend to weave in more challenging poses and high-intensity exercises at a faster pace.

These classes will help build your strength, deepen your flexibility, and enhance your body awareness. For yoga classes, you can expect creative transitions, options for arm balances and inversions, and workout-inspired flows. For fitness classes, expect heavier weights, a higher sweat factor, and a quick pace that challenges your strength and cardio endurance.

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Advanced

These classes offer the perfect opportunity to explore your potential beyond what you’ll find in typical all-levels studio classes.

Advanced classes are designed for those with a strong and consistent yoga and fitness routine. Expect advanced-level inversions, arm balances, and backbends; challenging peak pose variations; deep flexibility; strength work; and tricky transitions. You’ll find your edge while exploring a greater level of strength, control, and skill work.

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Intensity Levels

Intensity is not the same as difficulty; it refers to the amount of exertion that a workout requires.

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Level 1
Ideal for those looking for a slower-paced, chill, or more restorative style of class. You’ll leave feeling calm, relaxed, and at ease.
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Level 2
Great for those who want to move at a slow to moderate pace. Classes within this level vary from feel-good flows to entry-level strength training. You’ll feel comfortably challenged and explore a more dynamic range of movement.
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Level 3
This is the best option for those looking to amp up the sweat factor. You’ll get your heart rate up, test your endurance, and challenge your limits with faster-paced movement and exercises.
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Level 4
These classes are designed to test your limits to the max. You’ll move at a fast pace to push yourself to your peak, increase your heart rate, and accelerate your breathing. Prepare to discover untapped levels of strength and endurance.
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Level 1
Ideal for those looking for a slower-paced, chill, or more restorative style of class. You’ll leave feeling calm, relaxed, and at ease.
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Level 2
Great for those who want to move at a slow to moderate pace. Classes within this level vary from feel-good flows to entry-level strength training. You’ll feel comfortably challenged and explore a more dynamic range of movement.
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Level 3
This is the best option for those looking to amp up the sweat factor. You’ll get your heart rate up, test your endurance, and challenge your limits with faster-paced movement and exercises.
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Level 4
These classes are designed to test your limits to the max. You’ll move at a fast pace to push yourself to your peak, increase your heart rate, and accelerate your breathing. Prepare to discover untapped levels of strength and endurance.
Intensity Levels

Intensity is not the same as difficulty; it refers to the amount of exertion that a workout requires.

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Level 1
Ideal for those looking for a slower-paced, chill, or more restorative style of class. You’ll leave feeling calm, relaxed, and at ease.
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Level 2
Great for those who want to move at a slow to moderate pace. Classes within this level vary from feel-good flows to entry-level strength training. You’ll feel comfortably challenged and explore a more dynamic range of movement.
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Level 3
This is the best option for those looking to amp up the sweat factor. You’ll get your heart rate up, test your endurance, and challenge your limits with faster-paced movement and exercises.
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Level 4
These classes are designed to test your limits to the max. You’ll move at a fast pace to push yourself to your peak, increase your heart rate, and accelerate your breathing. Prepare to discover untapped levels of strength and endurance.
Intensity 1—Outlined Copy Created with Sketch.
Level 1
Ideal for those looking for a slower-paced, chill, or more restorative style of class. You’ll leave feeling calm, relaxed, and at ease.
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Level 2
Great for those who want to move at a slow to moderate pace. Classes within this level vary from feel-good flows to entry-level strength training. You’ll feel comfortably challenged and explore a more dynamic range of movement.
Intensity 3—Outlined Copy Created with Sketch.
Level 3
This is the best option for those looking to amp up the sweat factor. You’ll get your heart rate up, test your endurance, and challenge your limits with faster-paced movement and exercises.
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Level 4
These classes are designed to test your limits to the max. You’ll move at a fast pace to push yourself to your peak, increase your heart rate, and accelerate your breathing. Prepare to discover untapped levels of strength and endurance.

Series

Footwork for Olympic-Style Lifting
Instructor: Diane Fu

What you get

  • Free 14 Day Trial
  • iPhone & Android
  • Download For Offline Use

Description

If you are practicing Olympic-style weightlifting and need more instruction to make improvements, this plan was designed for you! This plan is the start of a new series to help you identify common faults, demonstrate progressive drills and assistance exercises, and discusses strategies to implement these drills. This series is a must-have for athletes of any level who is looking to continue to improve their efficiency, clean up their technique, and building a stronger base.

In this plan, Coach Diane Fu of FuBarbell will help you identify and address common foot faults. Regardless of how strong you are, poor footwork will be the biggest compromise to your speed, balance, power, and the overall success of your lifts. Watch and practice with Coach Fu as she demonstrates and coaches you to identify, address, and train through a series of progressions to establish best practices while eliminating bad footwork patterns.

Prior experience with the Snatch and Clean and Jerk is preferred, as this plan will place emphasis on developing good positions, speed, and technique for those lifts. We recommend completing the Olympic-Style Lifting Starter plan to become familiar with the relevant positions and movements.

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Diane Fu

Diane Fu is a rising star coach in the world of strength & conditioning and CrossFit. As an Olympic-style weightlifting specialist and in a field that’s been dominated by men, Diane has been on a mission to introduce the sport of Olympic-style Weightlifting to athletes of ages, levels, and abilities.

Coaching is a passion for Diane, and it has become an expression of her knowledge and experience she uses to enable others to perform better. Just like her lifting style, Diane's talent for coaching has a masterful sense of order and precision. Diane is the consummate teacher who brings everything she has to give in helping her athletes meet their potential. As with any sport, Diane is constantly learning about everything she can about weightlifting styles, theories, and methods locally and abroad to improve and perfect her body of knowledge and her work.

Diane currently works as a Strength & Conditioning Coach at San Francisco CrosSFit and is also the founder of FuBarbell -- a concept and lifting club established in 2011 to create an environment to bridge the gap between the Olympic-style weightlifting world and anyone interested in exploring this sport recreationally and competitively.

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5 Classes

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Alex Aflatooni
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I began CrossFit about a year ago, and I started this plan to get a more in d...

I began CrossFit about a year ago, and I started this plan to get a more in depth approach at the Olympic lifts and especially the fundamentals.

The reason I chose to purchase Diane's plan on @codyapp over following someone's online blog for oly lifting is that it includes an video for every workout that covers every movement you will be doing in detail. I also know what to do every day of the week and can watch other people doing the the same workouts and learn from their posts. I feel it provides a sense of online community that you can learn a lot from.

The first thing I've noticed is how poorly my shoulder strength is in my jerk. It has also really helped with my understanding of the bar path from the floor to the second pull. I am very excited to see how the rest of the plan turns out and would be stoked for any future plans! Thanks Diane fu and team!

Krista Everson
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I've been lifting for 3 years. after a 5 month hiatus I was ready & focused t...

I've been lifting for 3 years. after a 5 month hiatus I was ready & focused to get back under the barbell. I bought your plan to do so. The videos are fantastic. Nice, slow, precise. Pointing out key elements in the lifts are great for newcomers and experienced lifters back that are getting back on the platform. the movement practice is great! It allows me to work on key elements of the lifts, slow things down and I can sense where my weaknesses are which is hugely useful.

Hassane Mahfouz
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I joined the Cody community few weeks ago and I was delighted to see that my ...

I joined the Cody community few weeks ago and I was delighted to see that my favourite Olympic weightlifting coach Diane Fu, has an Oly lift starter program. I was always a big fan of Olympic lifts, used them years before my CrossFit journey but I never had any official training until I got my Level 1 Trainer Certificate; before that all I had was Diane's and Mike Burgner's videos, going back to basics was something on my mind for a while now.

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instructor Instructor profile

Diane Fu

Diane Fu is a rising star coach in the world of strength & conditioning and CrossFit. As an Olympic-style weightlifting specialist and in a field that’s been dominated by men, Diane has been on a mission to introduce the sport of Olympic-style Weightlifting to athletes of ages, levels, and abilities.

Coaching is a passion for Diane, and it has become an expression of her knowledge and experience she uses to enable others to perform better. Just like her lifting style, Diane's talent for coaching has a masterful sense of order and precision. Diane is the consummate teacher who brings everything she has to give in helping her athletes meet their potential. As with any sport, Diane is constantly learning about everything she can about weightlifting styles, theories, and methods locally and abroad to improve and perfect her body of knowledge and her work.

Diane currently works as a Strength & Conditioning Coach at San Francisco CrosSFit and is also the founder of FuBarbell -- a concept and lifting club established in 2011 to create an environment to bridge the gap between the Olympic-style weightlifting world and anyone interested in exploring this sport recreationally and competitively.