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

Using the Bench Press to get Stronger

Here we have our good friend Mark Rippetoe, author of Starting Strength.  I like this little clip because in it Rip mentions some of the variations in approach to the bench press.  Those of you who are fans of watching weightlifting videos might have seen some of the crossfit weightlifting instructional videos from [...]

That was really exciting!

If you haven’t checked out the work of FullSquared Productions, do it!  We were fortunate enough to have them at the 2011 Winter Open and they have some beautiful pictures and cool videos of the day.  Check this one out:

If this doesn’t remind you how exciting competition is I don’t know what will! [...]

New Year’s Eggs

Don’t be alarmed.  It isn’t that I’ve already had too much champagne to drink and got my holidays confused.  I know that eggs usually go with Easter.  But in our crossfitting nutrition world we take eggs whenever we can get them, especially free range, weed-eating, bug-munching, sun-bathing, keeping-it-in-the-family, raised chickens.  Make one of [...]

Working on the little stuff

Witnessing people figure something out that they’ve been struggling with for weeks or months never gets old.  Watching people try something new and a little intimidating is also always inspiring.

These girls got on gloves for the first time and worked with Ruben on some punching!

Nice [...]

Paleo Pancakes

The 6am class has undertaken a little Paleo focus for the summer weeks and this morning we were talking about Paleo-weekend eating which somehow led to the subject of pancakes.  You can easily find lots of recipes for gluten-free pancakes on-line, but many of them use potato starch or rice flour or other stuff [...]

New Year's Soup and new blogspots for you

For many years I have made a giant pot of soup on New Year’s Day.  When I was a vegetarian (yup, true) I made this delicious black-eyed pea, spicy, many-ingredient thing.  In my current Paleo life black eyed peas don’t figure so prominently (unless you count our limited !pod playlist).  For some reason, [...]