5.17.2012 Thursday

SWOD:
HSPU work 5min

WOD:
3 Rounds for time of:
800 Meter Run
20 Sumo Dead lift high pulls KB 53#/35#
20 Med Ball Cleans 20#/14#


"My dad doing Diane in twenty minutes, and me in two.
Well, my dad is more on his ass than me after it, so he won that one.  He gave it more."

-Camille Leblanc Bazinet

5.16.2012 Wednesday

 

SWOD:
Double-unders 1 min for advanced & 2 min for beginners

WOD:
12min AMRAP
10 Box Jumps 24’/20’
8 Push Press 95#/65#
8 T2B

39 Way to Not be Like Everyone Else

By:  Jason Ferruggis


The problem with being like everyone else is that everyone else sucks.

My advice is not to do it...

How do you start your day each morning?

Do you angrily smash the alarm clock and roll out of bed exhausted, dreading another day doing what you hate?

Or do you spring up fresh and well rested because you went to sleep before 11pm like you know you should, and get excited to tackle another day doing what you love?

After hitting the bathroom do you stagger into the kitchen and get a pot of coffee brewing as fast as humanly possible?

Is that what it takes for you to wake up in the morning and actually feel alive?

If you eat, sleep and train properly the last thing you should ever need is caffeine to wake up.

What about your workout regimen?

Do you do focus on big compound lifts, advanced bodyweight exercises, strongman training and avoid machines and isolation movements like the plague?

Do you keep a detailed log book and track your progress week after week, year after year?

Do you stick with a program for longer than a week? It takes at least four to even have a clue what’s going and what’s working.

When it comes time for cardio do you hop on the elliptical or stair climber or do you go find a hill and sprint up it until your heart beat is visible through your hooded sweatshirt?

There’s always an easy way out. You can always live a life of mediocrity and unhappiness and do what everyone else does. Or you can choose to not be like everyone else. You can choose the road less traveled.

How do you do that?

Continue reading:  http://jasonferruggia.com/39-ways-to-not-be-like-everyone-else/

 

5.15.2012 Tuesday

 

SOWD:
5x3 Snatch @ 75%
Note:  These are NOT touch & go reps.  Reset before each rep.

WOD:
3 rounds for time of:
Row 500m or run 400m
20 Wall-balls 20#/14#
20 KBS 53#/35# (ABSOLUTELY VERTICAL)

Jason Hoggan:  Making His Games Debut
By:  Eddie Malone

After stepping off the podium at the South Central Regional, Jason Hoggan was a tired, but happy CrossFitter. He’d just won Event 6 in convincing fashion, and in the process secured a 2nd-place finish in the competition, earning him a coveted spot at the 2012 CrossFit Games in Carson, Calif.

“Dream come true,” he says. “It’s been a lot of hard work, a lot of volume and smart programming. I’m just happy it all paid off.”

It wasn’t an easy road getting there. Hoggan started CrossFit in 2008 while a law school student and also an active duty member of the Air Force. Recently, he became a father. To put it mildly, his schedule was already full.

“I realized I couldn’t afford the two or more hours I used to spend daily at the gym, so I started looking for alternatives,” he says. “Realizing CrossFit was all about shorter duration workouts, I walked into Outlaw CrossFit [CrossFit Alexandria at the time], which had just moved to a new location down the street. I was skeptical, but was almost immediately hooked.”

It just so happened the workout that first day was Fran. He did so well he caught the eye of Rudy Nielsen, head coach at Outlaw CrossFit, who casually informed Hoggan that he would be competing at the 2009 Sectionals a few months later.

“His mentality is to compete as much as possible, which is great for me, as I found out quickly that I had a tendency to choke under pressure,” Hoggan says. “I don’t do that anymore.”

Continue reading: http://games.crossfit.com/article/jason-hoggan-making-his-games-debut

 

5.14.2012 Monday

SWOD

Low Bar Back Squat

Front Squat

(Week 6 Day 1)


WOD

"Jackie"

Row 1000m

50 Thrusters 45#

30 Pull-ups


PWOD

Mobility

 



5.11.2012 Friday

SWOD:
5x3 Snatch (full squat) @ 70%--rest 60 sec.

WOD:
4 Rounds for time of:
3 min AMRAP
30 OHS 65#/45#
30 Double-unders
Rest 2 min after each round

Mobility after WOD

5.10.2012 Thursday

 

SWOD:
Mobility

WOD:
4 Rounds for time of:
Run 400m
20 Wall balls 20#/14#
15 KBS 53#/35#
10 HSPU

anywherefit

If you're not on the edge, you're just taking up space

Fitness is...

Doubt.

Slinking, creeping, unraveling doubt.  It's a burden you know too well.  That point half way through a workout when the voice inside your head starts pounding against your eardrums, telling you you're too tired, too sick, or too weak to go on. Or out in the world when you convince yourself  you're too fat to wear that dress, too old to play that sport, or too green to do that job.  It's a sensation so overwhelming that you find yourself practically submerged in it, like a liquid skepticism, viscous and disgusting.  You rationalize, "Hey, it's alright... it's just the way things are.  Those dresses are for skinny minnies, those sports are for the young bucks, and that job...well, I'll bide my time and get there eventually."  But deep down you're hating yourself, resenting your size, your age, your inexperience, or whatever relative weakness you have.  You wish you were more fearless, more driven, and more secure, but life has taught you well your incapacities and it's not your place to argue.

Fitness is...

The truth is we'd much rather assume defeat than face our weaknesses head on---far better to avoid the mirror than risk a humiliating sidelong glimpse.  In essence, doubt is a mechanism designed to protect our ego from this very confrontation.  Years of experience and pain have honed our instincts to sidestep landmines of embarrassment, and grief, conditioning us to be chronic under-estimators.  On the whole we have grown habitually and pathetically risk-averse.

Continue reading:  http://crossfitmobile.blogspot.com/2010/11/fitness-is.html



 

5.9.2012 Wednesday

SWOD:

DU work for 5 minutes


WOD

For time:

30 Back squats 135#/85#

30 Pull-ups

20 Shoulder-to-overhead 135#/85#

30 Front squats 85#/55#

30 Pull-ups

20 Shoulder-to-overhead 85#/55#

20 Overhead squats 65#/45#

30 Pull-ups

20 Shoulder-to-overhead 65#/45#


Mobility after WOD


Obesity fight must shift from personal blame-U.S. panel

Reuters

By Sharon BegleyReuters


NEW YORK (Reuters) - America's obesity epidemic is so deeply rooted that it will take dramatic and systemic measures - from overhauling farm policies and zoning laws to, possibly, introducing a soda tax - to fix it, the influential Institute of Medicine said on Tuesday.

In an ambitious 478-page report, the IOM refutes the idea thatobesity is largely the result of a lack of willpower on the part of individuals. Instead, it embraces policy proposals that have met with stiff resistance from the food industry and lawmakers, arguing that multiple strategies will be needed to make the U.S. environment less "obesogenic."

The IOM, part of the Washington-based National Academies, offers advice to the government and others on health issues. Its report was released at the Weight of the Nation conference, a three-day meeting hosted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cable channel HBO will air a documentary of the same name next week.

"People have heard the advice to eat less and move more for years, and during that time a large number of Americans have become obese," IOM committee member Shiriki Kumanyika of theUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Medicine told Reuters. "That advice will never be out of date. But when you see the increase in obesity you ask, what changed? And the answer is, the environment. The average person cannot maintain a healthy weight in this obesity-promoting environment."

 

5.8.2012 Tuesday

 

SWOD:

10 minute snatch work...no more than 80% of max


WOD:

Four round for time of:

10 KB Snatch 53#/35#

Row 500m or Run 400m


Mobility after the WOD



Colleen Maher...17 years old and wins 1st place at the South West Regionals

 

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5.7.2012 Monday

 

SWOD:
Low bar back squat
Front squat
(Week 5 Day 2)

WOD:
Max rounds in 3 minutes of:
3 Power cleans 135#/95#
6 Push-ups
9 Squats
Rest 1 minute then repeat for a total of 5 rounds

Check out this incredible video of the South West region men doing "DIANE".
Spealler is amazing!!!!
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5.4.2012 Friday

Burgener Warm-up

WOD:
9 Hang squat snatch 135#/95#
50 Double-unders
7 Hang squat snatch
50 Double-unders
5 Hang squat snatch
50 Double-unders
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