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Monthly Archives: August 2009

Three Wolf Moon

WOD

14 Squats
14 Push-Ups
14 Sit-Ups
14 Pull-Ups

7 Rounds

Find a chin-up bar and get too it. A shout out to Giu-D, who will love the squats & sit-ups, push herself through the push-ups, and may need to scale the pull-ups. (You can do this by finding a box, and using it to jump up into your pull-up, like...

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Old Man Time

WOD

15 KB Swings
30 M Med Ball Throw & Chase
15 Push-Ups
30 M Med Ball Throw & Chase

5 rounds

Though it may not be quite as easy as the picture would have you believe, turning back the clock is possible. It takes a bit of work and blissiplin’, but it can happen. Having proper nutrition is one of...

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Bail Out

WOD

One Minute Each of:

Med Ball Throw & Chase
Push-Ups
Sit-Ups
Burpees
Pull-Ups
Lunges

Rest One Minute, repeat (12 minutes of work total)

Knowing when to bail out of a lift is key to going heavy. If we are indeed pushing ourselves, the only way to do this safely is to know how to get out of the way when a weight isn’t...

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Go Heavy!

Beach WOD

10 PVC Overhead Squats
30 m Med Ball Throw & Chase
10 Push-Ups
30 m Med Ball Throw & Chase

10 rounds for time

Don’t forget to go heavy!

Some people (ahem, ladies) dislike the idea of going heavy. They think it’ll make them “big.” Surprisingly, that’s not necessarily true. Your diet, more than anything else will make you big....

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Lookin’ Good

WOD (From CFSB “Burrito”)

For Time

50 Sit-Ups
50 Double Unders
50 Sit-ups
50 Walking Lunges
50 Sit-Ups
50 Burpess
50 Sit-Ups

However you look. Own it.

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Does Slow & Steady Win the Race?

WOD

40 m Medicine Ball Throw & Chase
1 Trip up & down Ave C Stairs
10 Push-Ups

5 rounds for time

What if it wasn’t slow & steady that won the race, but efficient & fast? Efficiency of movement is something that we consciously choose to explore with our workouts. Many people would acknowledge that even though they may...

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Use your head

WOD

21-15-9 reps for time of

Cleans
Sit-Ups
Wall-Ball
Push-Ups

Our body tells our brain that we’re experience pain. It is up to us to discern whether this pain is something we should push through, or if it’s time to take a break. Sometimes, even us CrossFit types can push it too far. That doesn’t mean that we don’t stop, there...

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Turn Around!

WOD “1K both ways”

10 Rounds for Time of:

25m Sprint
25m Backward Sprint
25 Sit-Ups
25m Bear Crawl
25m Backward Crawl
25 Sit-Ups

We live in the world in front of us. There is, however, a whole world behind us. Our muscles work in two directions, both forward & backwards. We should train in two directions. It’s great for the mind...

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Blame your Parents!

WOD

5 rounds

20 Lunges
10 Pushups
20 SitUps

There are a lot of things we can’t blame on our parents, and some things we can. We are gifted, for better or worse, with the genetic code of our parents getting it on some lucky night many years ago. There are some great things, no doubt, you’ve received from them....

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Eat it!

WOD

Find your 1 rep max Clean, then…

100 Burpees

If you wanna be fancy, you can take a nod from CrossFit Hollister and do Medicine Ball Burpees. (just hold a med ball for the entire movement)

Went to a really great Zone lecture & Q&A with the man Dr. Barry Sears yesterday. It reinvigorated my mind to...

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