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

Crones, Grey Beards, Elders, Silvers, Masters, Whatever Dude.

I like all the words for people who are all grown up (chronologically that is).  There is some serious weight in those terms.  Knowledge, experience and perspective.  Not to mention beauty, grace, power and sexiness of course.  Practise does make perfect and with a certain amount of age, hopefully came plenty of practise!! [...]

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 [...]

Foam roller trick and fish recipe

Multiple important things today:

1.  Don’t forget Aaron will be here at Open Gym tomorrow.  He will be with a client until 10:30, but then he will be available to teach you guys what you need to know to participate in the August 14th Grip Strength Competition…you know, the CrossFit-Friendly Strong Man event. [...]

Foam Rolling for Recovery and Pain reduction

Raymond here has found one legit use for our foam rollers.  I believe perched on the top of the stack is an Orca named Willy.  There is another more Crossfit-related use for these things however.  A lot of times we look at training hard, doing CrossFit, as the magic pill to make us [...]

What do you suggest for recovery?

Hey, hey.  You all have been working so hard lately!  Nothing makes you sore and functionally useless for a few days like being new at CrossFit.  Don’t worry though, a few days of uselessness will be traded in for giant gains in your usefulness! Many of you have been asking how to best [...]