Bare Bones Barbell Club
Barebones Barbell Club of Tucson: strength training, power lifting, Olympic Lifting, private weight lifting facility
Crossfit Works, Inc., Fitness Centers,
Tucson, AZ

Practice Olympic Lifting Meet and Competition Meeting

It hasn’t taken long for the lull of the Tucson summer to wear off and be replaced by an upcoming flurry of events!  Lazing around in a heat-induced daze is done.

I sincerely hope will be seeing these two on the evening of August 29th!!

This Saturday August 20th at [...]

Open Sectional #3 and ALL GYM CHALLENGE

Hey everyone,

Don’t forget to come on in and support the athletes and your hopeful Affiliate Team as they perform the third 2011 CrossFit Games Open Sectional workout.  This Thur night at 6pm.

We have some very nice, and some slightly ferocious rivalries going on for the ALL GYM Team Challenge.  I’ve [...]

ALL GYM TEAM CHALLENGE DETAILS and HIGH STANDARDS

Those of you participating in the ALL GYM Team Challenge this Saturday…we will meet at 8:30am on Saturday at the southwest corner of Reid Park (22nd and Country Club).  We should easily be finished by 10:00am if we can get started on time!

These are some pictures from our Open Sectional workout [...]

“Franxiety” or “Frantastic”

Linda is Frantastically not Franxious.

Or a little of both??  There were so many good “Fran” moments this time around.  JSchae got it done in 4:24 I think, Summer was a hair under 5minutes.  We had a bunch of people take a minute or two off their previous times like Crandall and [...]

The Mental Game

I had the opportunity to spend some time with the folks in your Affiliate who are preparing for the CrossFit Games Open Sectionals.  In the next few weeks, beginning on March 15, there is a small group of your fellow crossfitters who will perform the qualifying sectional workouts.  They are already training twice per [...]

2011 Winter Open Registration Open, Don’t Waste Time

Yo Yo Yo, the 2011 Winter Open is already half-full after only having registration open for one hour.  Check www.winteropen.com for registration details.  Don’t miss your chance to compete for $1000.  It will fill up very soon!

From unsponsored, regular old, hard-working boxing crossfitters to…

nutritionally-supplemented hard working, boxing [...]

Wednesday Life at CrossFit Works

A few of Wednesday’s gym highlights!

Check out Jennifer S. with her morning Ladies’ CrossFit Bootcamp Crew! This six week program emphasizes quick, focused body composition changes and fun workouts.  These brave women already have been through Tabata squats and they had Bryon measure body fat percentage with the calipers.  We currently have [...]

Training for the 2011 CF Games…

In this video you can see some super creative strong guys from Texas getting ready for the CF Games.   They have their diet dialed in too.  I like their approach quite a lot and I feel good about my rowing technique after watching this…  The guy on the rower is the guy who [...]

Oh WOW!! CrossFit Games are underway

Chris Spealler dominates the first event.

Last night was the first event of the 2010 CrossFit Games.  It was 9-7-5 muscle ups and squat snatch (135/95).  Muscleups had to be fully extended and turned out.  The battle amongst the women was amazingly unpredictable with the possible exception of the winner-the awesome Kristin [...]

Announcements

Using the Superman (legs only) to feel the lower back engagement for the squat.  You want lower lumbar extension not flexion.

OK-announcements:

Tonight at 5:30/6:00 Frog and Firkin we will be getting together to say “Adios” to Diane from the 6am class who is moving [...]

Get Behind Your Affiliate Team!!

Bright and early on their Saturday morning Andres, Mateo, Paul, Kate, Summer and Jenny came in to train together as a team.  Liz and I counted and judged reps and in the truest spirit of CrossFit Works, it turned out that the men and the women of the team accomplished the exact same [...]

The Sectionals Begin

CrossFit Games Winners 2009

The midwest sectionals took place this week.  Not all of you are aware of the CrossFit Games shenanigans.  Otherwise known as a contest to find the Fittest Man and Woman in the world.  The Games take place in Aromas, CA in July.  Leading up to the Games are [...]

Winter Open WODs and Instructions (3 SPOTS left for Get-Some Challenge)

Workouts for the Winter Open.

Athletes must arrive in time for registration which opens at 7:00am.  The first heat for WOD #1 will begin promptly at 8:00am.

WOD #1

3 rnounds:

8 ground-to-overhead (M-155/W-95)

Sprint with Med Ball (approx 200M) (M-20/W-14)

15 Pullups

12min cut-off

WOD #1 Scaled A

3 rounds:

8 ground-to-overhead (M-115/W-75)

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