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Training vs Practicing

Tonight those of you attending the “Organize Your Training Seminar” will have a chance to dig in and wrap your head around the difference between training a movement or athletic skill and practicing it. We will talk about which skills and techniques can be left to your practices and which you need to [...]

Effort Based Skill Work

Yikes! What’s that? Effort -based-skill-work is the crossfit equivalent of soccer drills or batting practise. There are things that just need your undivided attention. Your slow, loving, caring, hyper-focused attention. The difficult thing about effort-based skill work is that sometimes it turns into skill work without much effort. Or, most horribly, effort without much [...]

The ring dip

Nice job on the dip work everyone. I think it always makes sense to see what the experts say on their movements. Makes sense to ask Olympic Lifters how to Snatch and gymnasts how to do ring work. We’ve discussed before that as crossfitters we tend to include a fair amount of slop in [...]

It’s all about gymnastics my comrades

The following is a little excerpt on the role of gymnastics conditioning in strength and conditioning training. This is from the guys at DragonDoor. They are kettlebell experts and commonly refer to their readers as “comrades” which makes me feel…funny. I appreciated their little description of why including gymnastics as part of their [...]

Highlights

There is a lot happening in here every week!

We have royalty in the 5:30pm class.

Possibly the most epic event was that Andrea got her kipping pullups during Jenny’s 9am class this week!!!

From Jenny:

“For as long as Andrea can remember she’s [...]

Life with Parallettes

A HUGE SHOUT OUT to Danny from my 6pm class who is in the process of making many many new sets of parallettes for us. Monday night’s classes gave Danny a little helping hand as part of our warm up. Last year the CrossFit Games included hammering a spike into the ground so [...]

Gymnastics Progressions for your Mid-Section

So, how about those abs? Can they hold up your own legs? One of the geniuses of CrossFit of course, is that the methodology is real life movements, compound movements that do not isolate muscle groups. It is always important to take stock of your strengths and weaknesses. Are your handstand pushups nonexistent [...]