Sometimes the middle of class, or while you are enjoying Eminem, or the fascinating person next to you, is not the best time to try to explain anatomy and hip drive. We talked about hip drive last night in the 6pm class and I saw some very nice changes in back squat technique. I [...]
It was pretty cool that Renee came in costume, I mean triathalon gear, yesterday because now she looks official in her pictures of a 100lb power snatch! This lift wasn’t even close to her final ability, so we’re looking forward to big things soon. Really nice lift Renee and all the legit pushups [...]
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 [...]
Good luck back in your senior year Colby
Check out these photos of Colby on his final day of a summer’s Starting Strength programming with me. Colby came in unable to deadlift more than 85lb for 5 rep and yesterday he did 175lb for a single! He benched 115 which is only [...]
CrossFit is unusual as a sport and as a training method. In all other training systems you train for a while and then you race or compete. Your day-to-day training is the “homework” and then on race/game day you go and take your “test” to see how you stack up. For example, in [...]
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 [...]
In the last few years I have been to A LOT of seminars and courses and certifications in nutrition and training. I can say with certainty that I have NEVER seen the beverage of choice for attendees be a gallon of milk. Starbucks and bottled water for sure, but gallons of room temperature [...]