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Yoga Across America’s Yoga for Athletes on the schedule, 6pm Wednesday

I hope some of you made it to the remembrance events around town this weekend. Congratulations to Mac, who finished very well at the CrossFit competition on Saturday up at CrossFit Now. 4th place I believe?

Such beautiful overhead position at 5:30am!!

As promised, you have a special guest coming to [...]

Two Gems: Part II “Efforting”

“Efforting” is the most fantastic word recently invented. I heard it in a yoga class taught by Sally Webber at Tucson Yoga. I don’t know if this is a common yoga term or if it is original to Sally. Either way it is awesome. Those darn clever yoginis…Let me tell you how to [...]

Schaenanigans and Mobility

You all have a new resource for training information and source for inspiration, community and personal connection with training crossfit. You can find it at http://jschae.blogspot.com/. In case you can’t infer from the name of the blogspot, JSchae has her blog up and going. She is also the source of the Wednesday night, [...]

The Rhomboids: Part I

Your rhomboids are an extremely important, frequently abused set of muscles that we all might want to think more about. They connect your thoracic spine to your shoulder blades. When you hear the cue “squeeze your shoulder blades together” you need to recruit your rhomboids. They stabilize your shoulders and move your scapulae. [...]

Raw Strength Series

Ask someone how they feel about lifting heavy weights and chances are you’ll get one of two answers: “I love it” or “I hate it!” As we all know, the basis of wellness and performance is possession of lean muscle and strength. Lifting is kind of like brushing your teeth…even if [...]

Overhead squat...write your own rap

Shoulder and thoracic mobility are critical to overhead squats and the Snatch. And look at you guys working on just such things!

Overhead squats are not a lot of fun for many of you. We’ll start slowly with the snatch push press and overhead squats from this week, so be patient [...]

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 [...]

Oh dear, your posture…

In the last couple of days it has become alarmingly clear that we have posture problems in the house. In my classes we’ve been using a couple of stretches where the goal is to tip the pelvis and lean forward without rounding the lumbar or thoracic regions. The results are in. The news is [...]

Team Event for Border Patrol Agent

Next Saturday, Nov 6 will be a CrossFit Team workout held to raise money for the family of a southern Arizona Border Patrol Agent who was killed by a drunk driver while on duty. You can read about him here: http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?S=13122001. The event is appropriate FOR ALL FITNESS LEVELS according to the host gym.

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Serious inspiration and the DFL

First, some inspiration from your fellow crossfitters right here at CrossFit Works. These photos are of Breck and Mark from my 6am class. Between the two of them they have experience in wrestling, cycling, motocross and I don’t know what else. These guys are also becoming great crossfitters. Their attention to the health and [...]

EXCELLENT NEW RESOURCE for Mobility

This is like an enormous, wonderful, free gift to your CrossFitting. CrossFit’s Ph. D. mobility specialist and owner of San Francisco CrossFit, Kelly Starett, has begun a mobility blog with the most fantastic videos, homework and exercises for all you crossfitters out there. Try this: read a couple posts, watch a couple of [...]

Who are your trainers outside the gym? Who are you on vacation?

This video was made in Belgium in the Meerdael Forest. I’m pretty sure anything done in a forest by that name would be fantastic. Lots of you have gone on vacation this summer or are still on vacation. Many of you have requested workouts. It is pretty easy to give you guys a [...]

Mobility Work-No Yoga Involved!

April 28 at 6pm and May 5 at 6pm all of you are invited to Mateo’s 6pm class.

There are some of you who just aren’t ever going to do Yoga are you? It might be against your inner nature which is totally fine (even though I know Briar can help you). For [...]

Farewell Dave…Welcome Mateo

Mateo taking Dave through some mobility work

The team here at CrossFit Works wants to wish Dave Smith all the best in his journey back home to Colorado. Dave is on his way to Fort Collins for a job with an engineering company. Back to the peace and quiet of calculations and [...]