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Still a Salt ‘n’ Pepa girl, but now an athlete

SUBTITLE: DOES YOUR FITNESS PROGRAM TREAT YOU LIKE AN ATHLETE?

My girls.

In our CrossFit gym each and every client is considered an athlete. This is a radical difference from the way that clients are dealt with in other gyms and fitness programs. Being identified as an athlete is indicative [...]

Taking Ownership of your Effort with the RPE scale

I realize it might feel a little differently not being on the beach…

There are many different systems designed to help an athlete communicate with their coach (and yes, CrossFit considers every single person who does CrossFit to be an athlete). One of the systems we use to facilitate communication between [...]

Women of Perfection

Well, I know, no one is perfect, but there are moments when we achieve something with a movement that near perfection. I have had the great pleasure to coach the intrepid 5:30am class this week and witnessed some true moments of greatness. On Thursday during the Coach’s-Choice workout (a special feature [...]

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 [...]

“Annie” and couplets

Don’t forget to sign up for the Running Series that begins on November 7th! Cost is $25 if you are a CrossFit Works member registered for the Tough Mudder, $45 if you are a CrossFit Works member who is not signed up for the Tough Mudder and $65 if you are not a CrossFit [...]

Good night of Over Head Squats

Shout out to Leslie on her 115lb Over Head Squat and Ayanna for her 95lbs. Nice work by the currently, spectacularly flexible Chris Lees on his 155lb PR and to Allegra, Joli and Josie for finding the elusive overhead squat groove for the first time.

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Get a little bit intimidated and test your Strength

This Wednesday at 6:30pm we are going to have the Strength Test night. This is the test night for people finishing Raw Strength and it is open to anyone who has a desire to test their lifts. If you think you might be interested in the next Raw Strength Series this is a good [...]

Crying in the Gym

As you all know I am a fan of the author of the 70sBig website. This post of his is so timely for us. We have a crew of super hardworking women preparing for the 2012 CrossFit Open Sectionals (as well as women who have been and are preparing to compete in Olympic [...]

The “Filthy Fifty” Battle is ON!!!!

Carl and Chris had a huge crew gettin’ their starting score for The CrossFit Works October “Filthy Fifty” on Saturday. We had over 15 pairs get things kicked off Saturday and already by noon on Monday Mary Lou was in for her homework. The entire CrossFit Works crew welcomes the new folks into [...]

Ladies Only CrossFit prepares for the ALL Women’s Strength Challenge!!

Ladies-Only posse gets a special guest on Monday Oct 3rd. We have been relentlessly talking you all into registering for the All Women’s Strength Challenge on Saturday November 12th. I know we have Toby, Audrey, Mona, hopefully Lucy, Ellie, Jessica, I’m gonna work on Taarna. I’ve heard a little bit of worry about [...]

Saturday’s Free Community Workout

Nice work to the ladies above! You are looking at the two winning duos from the Death by 10m/Wall Sit throw down. The Saturday Community workouts are such a good time because the situation is always different. We’ve been enjoying some of the women from the Tucson Lightning Women’s Rugby Club as well as [...]

Where is your plank?

Ask yourself…if someone were to take a whole bunch of pictures of you doing clapping pushups (or any other type of pushup for that matter) would they capture these perfect plank shots? A pushup that is not well supported by a strong, tight mid-section is a pushup that will wreck your shoulders and [...]

Keeping Up With the Happenings

Saturday’s Free Community Workout was a great full house. Special thanks to Cody, Eddie, Josh and Glenn of the Tucson Magpies who came out and gave us a hand. Nothing says “intro to CrossFit Works” like a little Hoover Ball. It was also a special honor to have Sam Chavez and his Mom [...]

Family-style and preparing to Lift

We had a packed house recently as Mark L. and the CrossFit Kids did some very fun looking stuff in their territory and JSchae and the Ladies-Only CrossFit did some “fun” looking stuff in their territory and a few of the rest of us did our work in between occasionally tossing back a [...]

Raw Strength Testing

This end-of-the-week workout was your send-off for a nice long holiday weekend. Very nice work everyone. It was especially cool to see everyone’s burpee pullups, especially Kelly’s who left behind her usual 6pm class to kick it with the 6am class today!

Reminder about next Saturday’s Raw Strength testing. Saturday July 9th from [...]