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Xtreme Eating Awards

3 rounds:Row 20 cals20m handstand walk Xtreme Eating Awards The Center for Science in the Public Interest recently released it’s Xtreme Eating Awards for 2014.  It’s their list of the top food bombs available throughout chain restaurants across America. “When French toast is ‘Bruléed,’ fries are ‘bottomless,’ and steaks are now garnished with not just […]

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Are You an Abstainer or a Moderator?

Complete as many rounds as possible in 20 minutes of:185-lb. hang power cleans, 3 reps6 strict ring dips9 box jumps, 30-inch27 double-unders Are You an Abstainer or a Moderator? Seven years ago I found CrossFit and shortly after CrossFit I found the Zone and Paleo Diets – and the combination changed my life for the […]

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Helen!

Helen3 rounds for time: 400 meter run 21 kettlebell swings (1.5 pood) 12 pull-ups Helen Please join us in congratulating Lindsay Whitcher on the birth of her third baby!  Grant David Whitcher was born today at 3:44 pm weighing in at a whopping 10 pounds 13 oz! Mom and baby are doing great!

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The Fittest

Deadlift 3-3-3-3-3 The Fittest Congratulations to Rich Fronning and Camille Leblanc-Bazinet on claiming their title of the Fittest on Earth.  Rich, The Champ, claims his 4th consecutive title and Camille takes the podium’s top spot for the first time. Rich has been at the top for awhile and fought hard to keep his title, but Camille’s […]

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Last day of the 2014 CrossFit Games

For time:3-minute handstand hold100 squats50-meter handstand walk100 squats30 handstand push-ups Perform handstand hold against a wall (with only the feet touching) and accumulate at total of 3 minutes before moving on to the squats.   Last day of the 2014 CrossFit Games Exciting stuff going on on the leaderboards at The Games. We’ll be watching […]

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Teams of Two

Run 1 mile for time. (individual)Then,In teams of 2: 2 rounds of:2 min DUs2 min wallball2 min pull-ups2 min burpeesRest 2 min, repeatOnly one partner working at a time.  Teams of Two  

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The 2014 CrossFit Games are ON

AMRAP in 15 minutes:15 DB squat cleans50 Double-unders  The 2014 CrossFit Games are ON Check out the live stream on ESPN 3. No Cable? No Problem, we’ll have it on at the shop. You can find archives of all of the Masters events at games.crossfit.com  

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Keeping it Simple

15-ft. rope climbs, 10 ascents100-meter walking lunge50 dips100-meter walking lunge10 muscle-ups Keeping it Simple Among the many great aspects of eating real foods is the freedom to ignore the latest, often ridiculous scientific study. The original CrossFit prescription is straightforward and following it a realistic endeavor: “Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, […]

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Pushing Yourself in the Shop

Front Squat10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 Pushing Yourself in the Shop It’s 8pm and you pull up the blog to check out the workout – one of two reactions probably race through your head – “SWEET” or “UHHH.” In CrossFit, there are a ton of different types of the workout of the day, or the WOD – and they […]

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Sunday Scramble

50 pull-ups50 push-ups50 GHD sit-ups50 back extensions50 wall-ball shots, 20-lb. ball50 box jumps, 24-inch Sunday Scramble It’s 8:00pm on a Sunday evening.  You headed out of town all weekend, played hard, relaxed well, caught a nap, and now you’re headed home on the Sunday evening let down – Monday morning approaching and no idea what […]

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