Friends of Ours

A Hidden Gem and Erik tests Paleo

I wanted to talk up one of the hidden gems of your CrossFit Affiliate. Some of you are in on the secret because you attend the 9am classes exclusively, but many of you have never been in at that time of day. Most of you have realized that there are occasional firefighters hanging [...]

Plenty to Celebrate and Olympic Lifting Class

Details first:

This Friday, October 9, at 5:30-6:30 (or maybe 7:00) Dave will host an Olympic Lifting Class.  You must sign up for it in advance because it is limited to six people. Sign-up sheet on the counter or call the gym.   I urge you all to arm wrestle to get a spot in this [...]

Preparing for the 2010 CrossFit Games-Who you?

It is time.  Are you interested in preparing to participate in the 2010 CrossFit Games?  Qualifying for the Individual Games competition is serious business.  In 2009 there were Regional Qualifying Competitions from which the top finishers went on to the CF Games.  This year there will be Sectionals prior to the Regional Qualifiers and only [...]

Half Marathon Complete and a long workout…

Theresa and Lorna ran the Disney Half Marathon on Sunday in 2hrs and 8minutes!!  Congratulations Ladies.

Yesterday, we did a spectacularly long and perhaps unpleasant workout here of the sort that we don’t frequently undertake.  I received plenty of feedback about it, mostly stuff like, “I’ve never felt like I was going to be sick before. [...]

Help Sticking With It, and in one case, “Making a better Mama”

Jeez Louize CrossFit is hard work.  There are the days when the moment of my workout is what I am most looking forward to on the day’s to-do list.  I can’t wait for it.  But there are a lot of other days when I get out on the rubber mats and poke around and sigh [...]

CLOSED LABOR DAY

Hey everyone,

Labor Day is supposed to be celebrated with no working, so we’re not!  Take a little extra rest yourselves.  Some of you have been training pretty hard lately and with high frequency.  It is sometimes a good thing to take an extra rest day or two.  Extra rest + extra fish oil = a [...]

Super Star performances

“special props to the ladies in my class last night, they wrecked it! there is some serious female domination going down these days.” -Dave

There is a group of daring souls who have accepted an invitation to train twice per week with Dave Smith.  These are people who were consistently the top finishers in all workouts, [...]

Two First Muscle-Ups!

Don’t Jenna’s arms make her look dangerously strong in this picture?  And doesn’t John look like he is about to slide right into his muscle up?  Isn’t photography great?  They are both working on the muscle-up progression.

However, we did get two first muscle ups tonight!!!!  Chauncey got his, and Daniel said, “If Chauncey does one, [...]

No excuses, because yours will sound lame. Meet Sarah.

Today is Sarah’s 28th birthday.  Through an excellent grapevine she heard about our 2 week Paleo-Zone Challenge and she got started with that, came to a couple free Sat workouts and then signed up for her Fundamentals.  She is now, a few weeks later in her first week of group workouts.  Today she did the [...]

Weight Loss, or not.

Brenda tells me she has gained 7lbs in the last few weeks.  What kind of trainer/nutrition educator am I?You all should fire me.  Oh, but she can pull her jeans off without unbuttoning them now.  OK, don’t fire me, yet.  Put me on probation.  A few weeks ago I watched Brenda struggle to get through [...]

First Pullups and Sit Up-induced Road Rash with Heather

Hey, hey.  Heather got her first kipping pull up the other day.  That certainly is a huge milestone for a CrossFitter.  Congratulations on that sister!  Heather is going to be one of these quiet, unobtrusive, suddenly top finishing people in your workouts.  Watch and wait.  The other thing that Heather got recently, and perhaps no [...]

Matt Muscles Up!!!!

This is Matt and congratulations on your first Muscle Up!  I love seeing Matt work out.  Fast, flexible, graceful, pretty strong.  He is very understated when it comes to this whole CrossFit thing.  Like some people would’ve been telling everyone who came in the door, “Hey, guess what?  I did my first muscle up tonight!” [...]

Go Ryan!! Congrats on your Hard Work

“This probably isn’t the best place to post this, but I PASSED MY PHYSICAL FITNESS TEST FOR THE US BORDER PATROL!”

Oh, yes.  This is the best place to post this because then we get to put our 2cents in.  This is Ryan’s before picture.  I know lots of you already know how different he looks, [...]

Overhead Squat ALL THE WAY!!!

I am so excited!  Today was a long day for me, started early and ended late, but something so cool happened that after waking up at 4:30am and not getting home ’til 8:30pm I am still smiling.  Ralph did a whole bunch of overhead squats to below parallel keeping the bar in the right place. [...]