I love Overhead Squat day, and a quick search of the past 13 years of blog posts here is full of me waxing rhapsodic about the virtues of the overhead squat. But instead of dwelling on that, I want to say something about the WOD’s challenge today. Getting to the pullup rack is the challenge […]
The CrossFit Open is coming up soon! That’s a global opportunity that lets you get a taste of competition programming and standards, hosted right here at your home box. We’ll be posting more details about the Open Season as we get a bit closer, but as part of our continuing prep for Open Season we’ll […]
You’ll see Turkish Get Ups in our programming here more often than at many other boxes, just because of how much I love the darn thing as a whole-body training tool. But that said, we don’t often put it into the metcon. Today, the good old Turkish Get Up is part of our high-speed portion […]
Just like using the good old-fashioned back squat to get stronger yesterday, sometimes it’s useful to keep it simple when it comes to metabolic conditioning. Today’s WOD (much like Open 12.1 that we did a few weeks ago) ain’t fancy, but it will tax your basic work capacity and – if you can force yourself […]
It’s not uncommon for CrossFitters to get a bit too fond of the lungburnt exhaustion after a WOD and perhaps neglect the less obviously high-intensity benefits of lifting heavy for the sake of getting stronger. That’s not to say that the usual metcon won’t help you get stronger! It absolutely will, especially early in your […]
Just a reminder to y’all – especially the 630am crowd – that it’s important to cancel out of your class reservation if you’re not going to be able to make it to class because it’s real likely that someone else wants that class slot! We know shit happens from time to time, but let’s all […]
