You probably hear all of us coaches harping on “midline stability” or “core engagement”. We (rightly) are invested in having athletes cultivate core strength because (a) it is real handy for protecting your spine, and (b) it is necessary for effective force transmission through your body. Midline Stabilization is absolutely crucial. In some ways it’s […]
Drop sets are a classic feature of traditional strength cycles, but it’s not something we do very often at all. Or do we? After all, a Wallball is just a lightweight (and explosive) front squat. As we get heavy here toward the end of our cycle, you’ll notice more days like this one. We start […]
Dumbbells, y’all. Dumbbells. And “complex” in the sense of having multiple different movements with the same weight/apparatus performed sequentially without a break, not as in “has a complex” or “too complex to follow”. Though you may find it to be complicated to remember in the middle of a WOD… that’s why god invented whiteboards STRENGTH:Press5-5-5-5-5 […]
If you’ve ever been in my classes you know that I love crawling. Basically every warmup has some kind of crawling in it. It’s underrated and highly functional! If you’re ever looking for something awful to do in a Travel WOD when you’re on the road, I highly recommend reverse bear crawls up a hill […]
Just as a peek behind the curtain: we program the strength and WODs in cycles that go 10 to 16 weeks, usually, with a particular emphasis that is usually obvious from the Test/Retest format that starts and ends each cycle. For example, this one is all about that Squat Clean. But we also get together […]
Increasing (or even infinitely incrementing) WOD rep schemes are sometimes called “climbing a ladder” – you’re trying to see how high you can go in the time allotted. Infinitely incrementing the number of rope climbs in our workout today certainly borders on putting too fine a point on it, but here we are. Now get […]
