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Fight Gone Bad

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Fight Gone Bad (F.G.B.) was originally designed about a decade ago for local boy, LW UFC Champ BJ Penn! When BJ Penn did F.G.B. for the first time, he was put flat on his back when it was over! When he was asked about to compare the workout to a fight, he said it was [...]

Benchmark: Grace

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Excerpt from “The Clean” in the CF Journal The clean builds immense strength and power but this is only the more obvious part of the clean’s story. (This complex movement actually contains within itself two princely exercises – the deadlift and squat.) The clean is unique among weight training exercises in that it demands extraordinary [...]

Pose for Rose

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An astounding 65% of runners will experience an injury which will interfere with their training. Running is the most technical advanced body-weight movement. Unfortunately, most people think that all you have to do in running is increasing their walking speed. That couldn’t be further from the truth. To minimize this behavior Pose Running was created [...]

Baseline Check-in

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The “Baseline” is used to establish a sample of your fitness level across a sample of the thousands who have done the same. This is not a test of Elite Fitness rather a starting point for everyone who comes into our gym. The concept is simple. Once we establish a “Baseline” for you we can [...]

What the bar took

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Bring-A-Friend Day Thursday, January 26, 2012 Paleo Challenge Blog (Day 18) Post yanked from CrossFit Lisbeth. It started as a way to calm the angry voice inside.The part in your head that was so damn pissed that life wasn’t perfect and did not seem like it ever would be. That’s how you came to CrossFit. [...]

“GI Jane”

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Paleo Challenge Blog (Day 10) We are the “Sport of Fitness”. Defining fitness, measuring fitness, and competing against the clock enabled fitness to become a sport.  Reebok made a 10 year commitment to CrossFit, and ESPN received high ratings for televising the CrossFit games.  Fitness is now a rapidly growing legitimate [...]

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Stamina as defined in the 10 General Physical Skill of Crossfit states that stamina is the ability of the body to process, store, deliver, and utilize energy. When that system is compromised so is stamina via muscle contraction. Ironically the only way to improve stamina is to push the envelop during training. Today is your [...]

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Part 1 A1. Push Press 3-2-1;0 sec rest A2. Rope Climb x1; rest 3min Part 2 Conditioning 5min DB Deadlift 4min BB Push Jerk Rest 1 minute 3min Hand Stand Push Up 2min Ball Slams (video) 1min Sprints                     One element of crossfit which is frequently [...]