080731

30 Muscle-ups for time

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If you cannot do the muscle-ups do 120 pull-ups and 120 dips.

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30 Muscle-ups for Time (Pat Sherwood)...[wmv]

080730

Rest Day

Strict vs Kipping Pullup Demo...[wmv]

080729

Overhead Squat 3-3-3-3-3-3-3 reps

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Handstand Development, Roger Harrell...[wmv]

080728

"Diane"

21-15-9 reps of:
225 pound Deadlift
Handstand push-ups

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Deadlift Anatomy, Mark Rippetoe...[wmv]

080727

Shoulder press 1-1-1-1-1 reps
Push press 3-3-3-3-3 reps
Push Jerk 5-5-5-5-5 reps

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Shoulder Press Intro...[wmv]

080726

Rest Day

Stroke Rating (C2), Angela Hart...[wmv]

080725

Four rounds, each for time of:
800 meter run

Rest as needed between efforts.

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Uphill/Downhill Techniques, Brian MacKenzie ...[wmv]

080724

For time:
50 Burpees
Jump one foot above reach each rep.

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Burpee Demo...[wmv]

080723

"Murph"

For time:
1 mile Run
100 Pull-ups
200 Push-ups
300 Squats
1 mile Run

In memory of Navy Lieutenant Michael Murphy, 29, of Patchogue, N.Y., who was killed in Afghanistan June 28th, 2005.

Partition the pull-ups, push-ups, and squats as needed. Start and finish with a mile run. If you've got a twenty pound vest or body armor, wear it.

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Greg Amundson's Warmup...[wmv]

080722

Complete as many rounds in twenty minutes as you can of:
65 Pound Thruster, 10 reps
10 Pull-ups

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Spotting the Bench Press, Part I, Mark Rippetoe...[wmv]
Spotting the Bench Press, Part II, Mark Rippetoe...[wmv]


"The Land Before CrossFit"

Imagine we had to go back. Back to the Land Before CrossFit. Before wall-ball and thrusters and burning lung metcons like Fran and Helen. Back to a place without our friend Pukie or Uncle Rhabdo or the legendary Nasty Girls. To a time when the only language spoken was "Is it Legs or Chest day?" Back before we realized there was a madman in the tower, dreaming up workouts that combined both, and, in the ultimate piece of twisted depravity, adding a stopwatch to the whole mix. Back before we knew the madman's name was Greg Glassman.

Can you still remember those times? Can you recall accepting inane garbage fed to us by supposed "experts" who said that if we squatted deeper than parallel, our knees would explode, our reproductive organs would fail, and the breweries would stop making beer? (Oh, all right, they never said all of that but you get the point.)

It was all so sterile, so boring, and so futile. On those upper-body and lower-body and separate cardio days, we built some pretty muscles but we never really used them. Or, when we did, like when we toted a heavy bag of sand at Home Depot, or lifted an overloaded suitcase off the airport luggage carousel, we often injured ourselves, because pampered pretty muscles are like the Ice Queen at the Prom: she looks great but you can't really take her home and **** her. Better you should have some real muscles to do real work. Power units that will, quite simply, help you to lift heavy stuff off the ground. Functional muscles for a functional life. Like what you earn in CrossFit.

But also realize, unless you're very lucky, that your friends and loved ones still live in the Land Before CrossFit. They still toil away on ellipticals and "butt-blasters" and horrible weight machines because they have been told, "This is the way." And they still believe it, even though it takes them nowhere. They are like newborn baby birds, sitting in the nest, their beaks open but their eyes still covered, waiting and crying for someone to feed them. But they still don't see. They hear the rumblings of CrossFit in the distance, but they don't understand yet. The noise, to them, is perhaps the shifting of some seismic plates. They do not understand that those are the footsteps of thousands of CrossFitters, pounding across the arid desert of bullsh** "fitness", sprinting past the lies and the half-truths, coming to throw open the gates and set them free.

So, what to do? Tell the baby birds. Better yet, show them. Live the CrossFit life. Be a walking testament to the power of the properly executed below-parallel squat, Olympic lifting, and metcon. Shock them by doing heavy deadlifts with good form, without breaking your back or having your uterus drop out on the floor. Become a living, breathing example of the results the naysayers only promise to deliver. And then wait . . .

There is a line in the Tao Te Ching that reads, "Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity."

So, do your work: CrossFit. Then step back. Eyes will open and the baby birds will see. Let's just hope they don't fall out of the nest and break their necks before they even get to wall-ball.

(Text by Lisbeth Darsh. Special thanks to Allison Bojarskion of CF NYC for the inspiration behind The Land Before CrossFit.)

080721

Rest Day



"Popeye had Spinach, I have CrossFit"

Balance of Metabolic Pathways...[wmv]

080720

Thruster 1-1-1-1-1-1-1 reps

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Push-up Standards...[wmv]

080719

Five rounds for time of:
95 pound Hang Power Snatch, 15 reps
Run 400 meters

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Workout demo - video [wmv]

080718

Deadlift 3-3-3-3-3 reps.

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Training the Pistol with Adrian Bozeman Part 1, CrossFit Journal Preview - video [wmv]

080717

"Angie"

For time:
100 Pull-ups
100 Push-ups
100 Sit-ups
100 Squats

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Knees to Elbows Demo...[wmv]

080716

Rest day



Double-Unders, Buddy Lee...[wmv]

080715

"Fran"

Three rounds, 21-15- and 9 reps, for time of:

95 pound Thruster

Pull-ups

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Fran - Speal, 2:05 ...[wmv]

080714

Back Squat 5-5-5-5-5

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Rip on Breath ...[wmv]

080713

"Elizabeth"

21-15-9 reps of:
Clean 135 pounds
Ring dips

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Ring Dips... [wmv]

080712

Rest Day



Bench Press Body Position, Mark Rippetoe...[wmv]

080711

"Nancy"

Five rounds for time of:
400 meter run
95 pound Overhead squat, 15 reps

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Overhead Squatting Safely...[wmv]

080710

Hang power clean 1-1-1-1-1-1-1 reps

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Annie Cleans Heavy...[wmv][
Clean Catch Heights tri-panel... [wmv]

080709

"Quarter Gone Bad"

Five rounds for total reps of:
135 pound Thruster, 15 seconds
Rest 45 Seconds
50 pound Weighted pull-up, 15 seconds
Rest 45 Seconds
Burpees, 15 seconds
Rest 45 seconds

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Quarter Gone Bad - video [wmv]

080708

Rest Day



Learning the Medicine Ball Clean, Rob Miller...[wmv]

080707

Deadlift 1-1-1-1-1-1-1 reps

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Deadlift Setup, Mark Rippetoe ...[wmv]

080706

Five rounds for time of:
Row 500 meters
24 Box jumps, 30 inch box
30 Wall ball shots, 20 pound ball

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Box Jump Variations...[ wmv]

080705

Shoulder press 1-1-1-1-1 reps
Push press 3-3-3-3-3 reps
Push Jerk 5-5-5-5-5 reps

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Push Press... [wmv]
Push Press (behind the head)...[wmv]

080704

Rest Day



Adaptations, Part II...[wmv]

080703

With a continuously running clock do one pull-up the first minute, two pull-ups the second minute, three pull-ups the third minute... continuing as long as you are able.

Use as many sets each minute as needed.

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Pull-ups, pregnant...[wmv]

080702

"CrossFit Total"

Back squat, 1 rep
Shoulder Press, 1 rep
Deadlift, 1 rep

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Press Instruction, Part I, Mark Rippetoe...[wmv]
Press Instruction Part 2, Mark Rippetoe...[wmv]
Press Instruction Part 3, Mark Rippetoe...[wmv]

080701

"Gwen"

Clean & Jerk 15-12- and 9 reps

Touch and go at floor only. Even a re-grip off the floor is a foul. No dumping. Use same load for each set. Rest as needed between sets.

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Learning the Push Jerk, Rob Miller...[wmv]