January 2011
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December 2010
24 posts
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Muscle Tone Debunked by CrossFit Impulse
Lies, Damned Lies, and Muscle Tone
The idea of “toning your muscles” is one of the biggest lies to become firmly cemented in conventional wisdom. There is no such thing as “toning your muscles.” Sorry, it doesn’t exist. The concept that conventional wisdom has come to regard as “toning” is a combination of two very real things: muscle mass and reduced excess body fat. But if the problem stopped...
Great testimony from our friends at CrossFit...
My CrossFit Story
By Lucy McKee
I have been given horrible training and dietary advice from coaches for the past eight years. Low-fat, whole-grain diets designed to “improve performance on the track,” combined with high-mileage workouts and minimal weightlifting, have resulted in nothing more than seemingly endless injuries. While I was a Division-1 Track athlete at one of the nation’s...
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12/28/10
Row the Plank
-teams of two, one row while one planks. Switch when plank gives out. 3k
30 descending HSPU or handstand work
WOD
40*30*20*10*
Dead lift
K2E
*Run with a 25 lb weight plate between sets
100m
200m
300m
400m
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12/27/10
10 min double-under work
Burgener Warm-up
Clean & Jerk werk
then
“Grace”
30 clean and jerks for time (135/95)
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Christmas Weekend Schedule
We will be closed Friday night through Monday morning. Classes will resume Monday evening at 5:30.
I LOVE BURPEES!!
Here is a great article from CrossFit Trident explaining the science behind our favorite exercise.
Burpees
You love ‘em or you hate ‘em. Lets face it unless you are really demented they mostly suck – but why. From a physiology stand point it is damn near the most work you can do using your body weight. You full body weight goes all the way to the floor, back up in a plyometric move then a...
Erika Vs. The World: Damn it feels good to be a... →
erikavstheworld:
I consider myself pretty lucky/spoiled that CrossFit Modesto is all I’ve really ever known when it comes to gyms. I’ve actually never stepped foot inside a “globo gym” before. That is… until yesterday.
The only reason I was at any other gym than a CrossFit gym yesterday was to use their pool with…
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12/14/10 Re-WOD from 8/9/10
AMRAP 20 MIN
7 back squat
10 overhead lunges left hand
7 burpees
10 overhead lunges right hand
Check out my little bro's review on the CrossFit... →
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I think we have found Paleo Pat’s FGB outfit for next year!
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WOD 12/8/10
Chelsea
Every minute on the minute
5 pull-ups
10 push-ups
15 squats
When you can no longer keep up with the clock, it turns into an AMRAP through the 30 min.
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WOD 12/6/10
3x400m row. Rest as needed between sets to give max effort each time. Record best time for PR board
-then-
Team work out
20 cleans
40 burpees
20 thrusters
40 box jump
20 hspu
40 wall ball
12/1/10 WOD
1600m row
3min rest
1200m
2 min
800m
1min
400m
11/30/10 WOD
5 rounds for time:
20 ground to overhead (95/65)
20 box jump (24/20)