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

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 [...]

July 23 Phoenix-area Competition. Sign up.

Ladies Only Class gettin’ their Summer Strength on!!

Nothing like getting out there in the bigger world, meeting other athletes and giving it your best.  You have a chance to do that with our neighbors up in Mesa, Performance One: Advanced Sports Training.  This is Joe Micela’s gym, a senior USA Weightlifting [...]

Reminders

Register soon for the Tough Mudder.  Registration cost increases astronomically in a couple weeks.  Look for our team and use “success1″ as the password.  We will prepare you…

The next Raw Strength Series begins on Wed July 20th.  It is weeks away, but filling quickly.  If you’d like a spot, don’t dally. [...]

Upcoming Raw Strength and Olympic Lifting Series

CrossFit Works’ and Steve’s Club Tucson would like to welcome the young men and women of the 2011 Tucson Police Department Gang Prevention Program.  Very nice work this morning.

Mark these dates on your calendars por favor!!  The next 3 hour Mini-Olympic Lifting course will be held Saturday June 25th.  I encourage absolutely everyone [...]

Training vs Practicing

Tonight those of you attending the “Organize Your Training Seminar” will have a chance to dig in and wrap your head around the difference between training a movement or athletic skill and practicing it.  We will talk about which skills and techniques can be left to your practices and which you need to [...]

Weighted pushups and Prowlers

Master’s WOD is Saturday morning at 10:30!!!

Rhomboids Part II can wait til tomorrow!  What a cool set of challenges that you guys took on at the end of the week.  Weighted pushups.  Mark L, Jerry and Greg of early morning fame did 71lbs, 72.5lbs and 72.5lbs respectively.  Mark, I’m pretty sure I [...]

Face of Determination and Preparing for Memorial Day Murph

The Rams football team got a little competitive with their conditioning the other day.  We had some serious battle rope contests.  Interestingly, when asked to go “as long as they possibly can stand it”, the whole team went around a minute and then…they gradually began trying to beat each other.  The same kids who [...]

How important are your goals?

The 4 week Olympic Lifting Class is already FULL!!

Some people can do dips, some people can do 60lb weighted dips!!!  Nice job Jeremy.

“If you have to write down your goals it means they aren’t important enough to you”.

I recently had the opportunity to [...]

Snatch Grip Deadlift

Very fun to see you guys tackle the snatch grip deadlift.  In the morning classes we talked about how this lift is clearly beneficial in improving the pull off the floor for the Snatch, but what if you don’t care about the Snatch?  Is there any reason to do this movement? [...]

Take care with symmetry and barbells

In a mixed grip deadlift, like Mac is doing, it is actually annoyingly easy to be asymmetrical.  Try this trick to test yourself: chalk only your middle finger.  Grip the bar in a double overhand grip.  Note where the chalk marks are.  Now take a mixed grip and notice that the chalk line [...]

Working together

The Rams have been doing some great stuff these past few weeks.  They’ve been putting weight on the bar, pressing, deadlifting,and  powercleaning.  Working on their footwork, agility and speed.  Most importantly they have been working together to move some significant obstacles (although he may be a burden on the prowler, this [...]

Carrying weight

Sometimes we carry things while we move in crossfit workouts like kettlebells, weight vests, med balls, or bumperplates.  We might do a gym-length shuttle run or a 400m run while carrying something heavy.  We’ve done team workouts where we carry each other or carry a bigger item like the heavy bag. [...]

Check yourself!

I love to start my day laughing.  First I was laughing at how awesome the video Jenny sent to me was…a nine year old GIRL weighing in at 88lbs. back squatting 187lbs in a raw powerlifting meet.  I can appreciate that despite the uncomfortable proximity to my own 1RM back squat at…more than [...]