I thought it would be super quiet and lonely in the gym this week while you were all taking a vacation, but not so! Welcome to Colleena who joined the 5:30 am class. 19 people did our 1-mile/”Cindy” or “Mary” this morning at 6am. The newer folks coming out of the On-Ramp are [...]
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I like that this article brings to light the difference between “training” and performing. The same issue that is discussed in this article (using a more challenging pullup grip during regular workouts) applies to grip and deadlifting. If you always use a mixed grip when you deadlift you are not improving your grip strength [...] The 70s Big July Challenge has been completed. It was max rounds in 20min of 3 Press (0.625xbodyweight/0.5xbodyweight) and 3 strict pullups. All the people listed rounded up for the Press weight. For example, if the calculation showed that 62.5% of bodyweight was 91lbs the athlete Pressed with 95lbs. Here are the [...] It was a good morning!! There is a rockstar chica in the 6am class by the name of Jen C. Check out her pull up ladder from this morning. She also did Version B of our WOD today with good clean ring push ups and double unders. Your progress is awesome Jen. It is [...] Happy Birthday Karen B.!!!
Today, many of the CrossFit Works women completed the final bench mark workout of the Women’s Challenge. I admit to feeling a lump in my throat watching the pushups. Betty Fournier got 60 pushups-which just happens to be 2 more than her age!! Ellie did [...] |
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