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

Creating a Framework for Understanding Supplements

Incorporating lateral movement and change-of-direction into the training

As health-conscious, performance-oriented people I think we all wonder about supplements.  Should we take them?  Which ones?  How much?  Which brand?  Why?  Why not?  It would be simply wonderful if there were a simple answer to any of these questions.  If only there [...]

The Seasonality of Eggs

I’ve had some questions about why we don’t have as many eggs for sale as we have in the past.  There is sometimes a little undertone that someone (or some chicken!) is not doing their job properly.

Even us nutrition-conscious CrossFitters sometimes lose touch with the fact that a food so ubiquitous as [...]

Food Journals

This week you should be seeing some random pieces of paper hanging on the gym walls.  Closer inspection should reveal that these pieces of paper are food journals.  The competitive crossfitters at CrossFit Works will be hanging their food journals.  Why would they do this you might ask?

Performance CrossFit with a [...]

Reminders

The Women-Only CrossFit class busted out the weight vests yesterday and finished up with some picture perfect Deadlift complexes.  Very very inspired by this group of women who said they want a class of all women, but they don’t want an easier workout.  Grab onto your bootstraps…

Tonight at 6pm is the second in [...]

Why the Epsom Salts?

What’s the first place to stop after two days of studying with the CrossFit Football crew?  How about after the Tough Mudder?  What about The OC Throwdown?  First stop is the pharmacy for a couple giant bags of Epsom Salts, chemical composition Magnesium Sulfate.

Magnesium is an sadly neglected mineral.  Lots [...]

Primal Plan 8 hr Nutrition Learning Lab

At last.  An opportunity to spend many hours talking about food, nutrition, health and wellness!  My friend Ryan Koch and I are going to lead/teach an eight hour “class” on the evolutionary approach to food, eating and wellness.  Ryan and I share a belief in the wisdom of the diets of our long-ago [...]

Focus on Food: Hepatorenal toxicity from GMO corn vs your Latina ancestors

Don’t forget, regular schedule Tue, Wed and Thur of this week.  Keep checking for updates to the class schedules that will begin on Tuesday January 3rd.

While we are taking this scheduled break from our strength and conditioning training we may as well use this opportunity to focus on our food.  It is [...]

High Five Max – a story of a Gift.

Carl, Chris G., Mark L. and Ben T. and I want to wish our entire community a very wonderful, peaceful, joyful holiday season.  Below you will find a description of our holiday gift to the CrossFit Works community.  Before we tell you about your present, I want to take a moment to share with [...]

Gluten-free because gluten makes you miss things!!

“What is gluten-free?”

“Why does everyone want to be gluten-free now?”

I hear these questions quite often.  My usual answer is an abbreviated explanation [...]

Sundays are the foundation for the Super Woman Training Program

The 5:30am class with their secret pre-dawn gymnastics skill work.

This afternoon I am contemplating what it means to live the “CrossFit lifestyle”.  I’m not at the gym.  I haven’t worn anything that says “CrossFit” on it.  I haven’t discussed a workout.  I’m not even sore.  I haven’t been on Facebook or [...]

Egg Winner is Ellie

The 6pm Mob (Flash?).  Midori and Leslie, the only Sister members of the Mob.  As a head’s up, we are taking names right now.  As in attendance.  Some of our classes are full.  We will be addressing this soon!  Hang in there.

I had to give Ellie the winning spot for [...]

Egg Contest

We have a plethora, an abundance, and a mountain of delicious, properly raised, local eggs.  To get you all excited about eggs I’m going to throw out a little challenge.  Who-so-ever (Midori is that a word?) offers up the most delicious and uncommon egg recipe by Friday at noon will receive some free [...]

“Dad have water”

If you need some ideas for Saturday’s potluck, try Everyday Paleo.

JSchae in the post-workout game analysis with the Ladies-Only CrossFit Class.  Ladies, next time you see Mona tell her BIG THUMBS UP on her 190lb squat last night!!  She is comin’ for you Ellie.

“Look at his [...]

Required Reading for CrossFit Works Community

Sometimes there is something written so well that I feel like if I have caused a couple other people to read it, my daily good deed is done. I believe this recent blog post written by Robb Wolf, author of The Paleo Solution, is the type of read that could make the world a [...]

“Helen” Meets “Grace” and other upcoming events

This morning we bid adieu to Dr. Stephen Haessler  and his coach, the lovely and talented Chris Gartrell, as they head to The Home Depot Center in California to the 2011 Reebok CrossFit Games.  We don’t want Prof Steve to be embarrassed by his coach so we marshaled all our beauty experts and [...]