September 2008

Construction Update

September 29, 2008

More great progress on the new gym… I’m starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel with us moving workouts to the new place.  Most of the major painting will be done in one more session.  We’ve got a rough design for a pullup structure that won’t take long to build.  And [...]

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World’s Fittest Athlete

September 29, 2008

There’s a somewhat heated debate on the CrossFit Games website regarding the 2009 games.  The underlying theme is that CrossFit is trying to determine the World’s Fittest Athlete.  If you follow the main site, you’ll regularly see Dave Castro commenting on the mainstream definition of fitness and his frustration with the notion that low-intensity, long [...]

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Technique or Results?

September 27, 2008

Which is more important in our workouts: good technique or good results (fast time, many reps, etc.)?  As CrossFit founder Greg Glassman has said many times: both! These two things may seem at odds to you, but they’re not.  We demand proper technique not just for the sake of safety — that is only the [...]

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CrossFit Games 2009

September 27, 2008

CrossFit is already gearing up for the 2009 CrossFit Games.  There appears to be some significant changes in store and I can’t say that I’m happy about it.  Allow me to explain. As it stands now, next years games will have no scaled workouts.  Everyone competing will be doing the same workout.  I’m not sure [...]

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Personal Records

September 25, 2008

Four athletes.  Four personal records. That’s what we had at the Thursday evening workout this week.  Justin, Nehal, and Scott all bested their previous max lifts for overhead squat by a wide margin.  Andrew worked on his front squats today, made tremendous progress, and was lifting significant weights by the end of the workout. Have [...]

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