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Beast Mode: Mr. Van

Of all the recent string of New Kids we got in December, the VanDoorn parents have been the most consistent. Mrs. Van has already been permanently banned from scaling down running distance and is making steady improvements with the elbow/shoulder thing she came in here with.

Mr. Van is someone I kind of wrote off as high-maintenance in terms of form and technique, but I am starting to regret that. Earlier this week he didn't round his back once on deadlifts during Linda and today he ended up doing 105-lbs. on his max effort thruster while hitting all the points of performance I was looking for. Check it out: