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

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 [...]

The Sonoran Salmon is Snake

Yes.  Of course.  Snake.

If you didn’t check the comments from yesterday’s blog post you will see that our own desert wiseman, Bryon L., has weighed in from his present location on an Oregon farm, on the Sonoran Desert equivalent of salmon and blueberries.  Snake and wolfberries.  Shockingly, I didn’t find any of [...]

Blueberries

Wild blueberry barrens as well as my childhood home town!

Hopefully you all had a lovely holiday weekend.  I spent mine being homesick.  Ummm, 115degrees or something on Saturday?  That just isn’t right.  While in Arizona the desert sun is hell bent on scorching us crisp (and don’t try to pacify me [...]

Paleo Baby Steps…

What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon than watching Nic’s MMA conditioning crew do some rope pullups and then talk a little nutrition?

Here are a few reminders about how to approach your Paleo transition.  Remember that if you are a performance athlete you might do some of this a little [...]

Nutrition Basics Lecture-Sunday

Green Fish salad: shredded napa cabbage, diced zucchini, grilled fish with lime and cumin, avocado, tomatillo salsa and cilantro.

This Sunday, June 12 at 2:00pm will be the CrossFit Works Introduction to Excellent Eating lecture.  Otherwise known as Paleo Basics.  During this lecture we cover some of the reasons why a hunter-gatherer [...]

How important are your goals?

The 4 week Olympic Lifting Class is already FULL!!

Some people can do dips, some people can do 60lb weighted dips!!!  Nice job Jeremy.

“If you have to write down your goals it means they aren’t important enough to you”.

I recently had the opportunity to [...]