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It was "Tires Galore" early at the garage.

WoD:
Weight Box Step Ups

Turkish Get Ups

Rest 5 minutes then

4 Rounds for time
1 Rope Climb
5 Cleans (Men use 155#/Women use 103#)

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New Punishment

If anyone else complains about Burpees and this will be their norm on Burpees for life.

WoD:

Sots Presses and Indian Club practice

5 Rounds for time

50 Double Unders

50 Squats

10 Tire Flips

Run 400m

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Tori Allen, The Monkey Girl

WoD:

One Leg Box Jumps

Handstand Push Ups

8x2 On the minute

Rest 5 minutes then

4 Rounds For Time

10 Ring Push Ups

10 Pistols

10 Chest-to-Bar Pull Ups

Finisher: Sled Pulls

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"Palmus Autem Habet Quattuor Digitos"

The Vitruvian Man is a world-renowned drawing created by Leonardo da Vinci around the year 1487.^[1] It is accompanied by notes based on the work of the famed architect, Vitruvius Pollio. The drawing, which is in pen and ink on paper, depicts a male figure in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and simultaneously inscribed in a circle and square. The drawing and text are sometimes called the Canon of Proportions or, less often, Proportions of Man. It is stored in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, Italy, and, like most works on paper, is displayed only occasionally.^[2][3]

The drawing is based on the correlations of ideal human proportions with geometry described^[4] by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius in Book III of his treatise De Architectura. Vitruvius described the human figure as being the principal source of proportion among the Classical orders of architecture. Other artists had attempted to depict this concept, with less success. Leonardo's drawing is traditionally named in honor of the architect.

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WoD:
Practice One Legged Deadlifts and One Arm Push Ups

Koji Squats
3x5 2x2

3 Rounds
15 Hang Power Cleans (Men use 135#/Women use 88#)
15 Burpees

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Gone To Colorado

Below are 4 workouts that can be done while I am away. I hope everyone has a good weekend and I'll see you all next week!

Hand to hand swings are great for hand eye coordination.

3 Rounds for time

50 Push Ups

50 Sit Ups

50 Squats

Cummulative L Sit for total of 5:00. Use bar, rings, or floor.

Stop timer when you drop out of position. Record total time it takes to get 5:00.

50-40-30-20-10

Squat Jumps (Just Bodyweight)

Push Ups

10x100m Sprints Rest 2 minutes between each sprint

Joel knee jumping with 28#, using techniques like these we added 30# to Joel's Clean without even Cleaning a bar!

Marcus Luttrell

An interview of Marcus Luttrell, author of Lone Survivor. It is an unbelievable account of what 4 men did on a mountainside in Afghanistan. A book about Medal of Honor recipient Micheal Murphy will be released on May 5th.

WoD:

Knee Jumps and Practice Cleaning

4 Rounds for time

2 Rope Climbs

30 Box Jumps (Men use 24"/Women use 18")

20 Hand to Hand Swings (Men use 24kg/Women use 16kg)

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Improving Shoulder Stability Through Clubs

The shoulder girdle is by far one of the most movable areas of the body but it is also one of the most fragile. For serious and recreational athletes alike, the pain and instability that results from shoulder injuries can jeopardize careers and alter lifestyles. As with many injuries, this number could be greatly reduced with the proper care and training. Strength of the shoulder should be complemented by flexibility, yet many Americans never fully develop their natural shoulder girdle mobility and muscular balance. When the ball-and-socket joint of the shoulder is made strong, aligned and mobile, other joints like the wrist and elbow also benefit. Club swinging can be described as circular weight training but can exercise the shoulder, wrist and elbow in ways not possible with traditional linear weight training. Club swinging will not only strengthen muscles and ligaments, maintain joint flexibility and improve range of motion but will greatly reduce risk of injury. You will also notice improved grace, rhythm and eye-hand coordination due to the concentration and neural demands necessary to perform the movements. The benefits of Indian Club Exercises are enormous and can greatly enhance the performance of any athlete.

Taken from IndianClubs.com


It's either a week and a half of being sick, the 150m of Prowler Pushes through dirt and grass or a combination of the two that brought about this effect.

WoD:
Hurdles

Thrusters
10x2 at 75%

Rest 5 minutes then
5 Rounds for time
15 Overhead Squats (Men use 65#/Women use 43#)
5 Handstand Push Ups

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"Wasting Your Time..."

A good friend of mine said Saturday night, "You're wasting your time if you're not squatting with chains."

This is why I want an Airdyne.

WoD:

Tabata Conditioning Rope

Muscle Ups

5x3

Reverse Hypers

3x8

Rest 5 minutes then

3 Rounds for time

2 Prowler Pushes (Men load with 110#/Women load with 70#)

10 Deadlifts (Men use 275#/Women use 183#)

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Laws of Motion

"If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." ~ Sir Isaac Newton



Most people don't realize that Newton's Laws of Motion also apply outside of the classroom environment and are just as relevant in the gym environment.

"Lifting weights is mathematics, physics, and biomechanics. That's all it is. It's not chalk, dumbbell, or Muscle and Fitness." ~ Louie Simmons

WoD:
Farmer's Walk

Max Box Squat

Rest 5 minutes then

21-15-9
Power Cleans (Men use 155#/Women use 103#)
Ring Dips

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The Love Affair With Bacon

Thin, thick, smoky, salty, hearty, meaty, maple, chewy or crispy. Different strokes, as they say. Nonetheless, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone – especially a Primal type – who doesn’t sing bacon’s praises. (Too bad so manyCW followers eschew this fine delicacy.) Nonetheless, I wanted to address some questions dangling out there in the MDA comments and forum. Is bacon an indulgence or an acceptable stock ingredient in Primal eating? Do we need to shell out for nitrite-free? What about organic? Is there really such a thing as grass-fed pork?

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We love our Prowler

WoD:

Depth Jumps

Rack Jerks

5x3

Curls

2x4

Rest 5 minutes then

5 Rounds

10 Hindu Push Ups

50 Squats

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Istvan Javorek Teaches Proper Technique

Spring in Florida is no reason not to use a snow sled

WoD:
Sled Drag

Rest 5 minutes then
21 Shoulder Presses
Run 800m
21 Push Presses
Run 800m
21 Push Jerks
Run 800m

Men use 95#/Women use

Law Of Accomodation

Taken from the CrossFit Journal Article "CrossFit Westside?"

Law of accommodation—Accommodation is the
decrease in response of a biological object to a
stimulus. In other words, if we train the same
movements under similar training loads over a long
period of time, performance gains will decrease.
It is our objective, then, to avoid accommodation.
We avoid accommodation by modifying training
programs either quantitatively or qualitatively:
• Quantitative: changing training loads
(total amount of weight lifted).
• Qualitative: replacing the exercises.


40# Box Jumps for explosive power

WoD:
200m Overhead Walk

Dips
12x2 at 70%

Rest minutes then
4 Rounds for time
1 "Snow Sled"
15 Kettlebell Swings (Men use 2 pood/Women use 1.5 pood)

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Nova Uniao of Central Florida

Check out our good friends at Nova Uniao of Central Florida located off of Canoe Creek next to the Subway

Coach "Sak-ers"! Don't make him mad, he taught me everything I know.

WoD:

Weighted Box Jumps

Pistols

3x5 3x1

Rest 5 minutes then

10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1

Front Squats (Men use 135#/Women use 88#)

Pull Ups

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Michelle getting some on the Man Makers

Calculus Lesson

Accepting that numbers can do strange, new things is one of the toughest parts of math:

• There’s numbers between the numbers we count with? (Yes — decimals)
• There’s a number for nothing at all? (Sure — zero)
• The number line is two dimensional? (You bet — imaginary numbers)

Calculus is a beautiful subject, but challenges some long-held assumptions:

• Numbers don’t have to be perfectly accurate?
• Numbers aren’t all the same size (i.e. 1 times some number)?

Today’s post introduces a new way to think about accuracy and infinitely small numbers. This is not a rigorous course on analysis — it’s my way of grappling with the ideas behind Calculus.

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Bottoms Up Press with 24 kilos. Just look at that focus!

WoD:

400m Med Ball Run and Bar Jumps

Squat Clean

Rest 5 minutes then

3 Rounds for time

10 Man Makers (Men use 24kg/Women use 16kg)

15 Tire Flips

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Soviets vs Americans

If it skips, just click ahead a little bit.

Reverse Hypers can be trained every day

WoD:

Band Assisted Jumps

Bottoms Up Presses

Rest 5 minutes then

5 Rounds

15 Chest Slap Push Ups

Litvinov Sprints

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Cracking Open The Bones

If you’re truly interested in consuming the original Primal brain food, look no further than bone marrow: perhaps the first reliable source of large, fatty animal products our scrappy ancestors were able to procure. Yes, before we became spear-using cunning tacticians surrounding, stalking, and out-maneuvering large prehistoric ungulates, we feasted on the bones of fallen prey. Or, more accurately, we feasted onwhat lurked inside the bones (and the skulls, for that matter). Animal fat and protein improved the quality of our diet by making digestion less energy intensive. Bone marrow, especially, was highly caloric and nutrient dense, allowing early human ancestors to divert metabolic resources away from the costly digestion of roughage and toward bigger, costlier brains. This spurred the increase in hominid brain size that we still enjoy today.


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It's a bird! It's a plane!

WoD:
Prowler Pushes

Squat Jumps & Reverse Hypers

Rest 5 minutes then

Double Alternating Tabatas
1 Arm Snatches
Burpee Deadlifts
Men use 24kg/Women use 26kg
Score is total reps completed

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Ross Training

WoD:
Hand Jumps

Push Press
3x5

Rest 5 minutes then
50-40-30-20-10
Double Unders
Sit Ups

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Elbow Flexion, "Curl", It's Au Naturale

After years of discounting the practice, I’m about to do something I didn’t think I’d ever do. I’m going to do a public about-face and not only endorse but encourage direct biceps work as an integral component of your training, irrespective of your goal. And no, I haven’t been hanging around the Jersey Shore.

But first, a preamble…I’ve been very fortunate. I’ve called John Berardi a brother, mentor, best friend, and business partner for the last ten years. I work in a market segment that’s growing in number and girth, and I’ve grown up and now practice during a period of robust exercise study, theory, and application.

It’s a painful irony that the world continues to get fatter, sicker, and less fit as we get better at what we do, but our grasp on creating whole body transformations has never been more effective. And I fortunately fell in love with the field just as the grip tightened.

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Speed-Strength development

WoD:

Sled Drags and Conditioning Rope

HandStand Push Ups

2x3

Rest 5 Minutes then

Row 500m for time

Atlas Stones

So, while the buckets are fun, they did not turn out exactly the way I predicted. They will still serve a purpose. I was lucky enough to have a friend send me a link on how to make my own molds for Atlas Stones and over the next few months will work on making those and then the stones. Not to mention we need to find space for them.

WoD:

Box Hurdles

Overhead Squats

30 Muscle Ups for time

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Reverse Hyper

Now that we have a Reverse Hyper, make this a staple in your warm up. A set of 20 everyday. Watch these videos and links on the Reverse Hyper to understand the ROM and use, as well as what is happening to the spine.

Adrian Bozman on the Reverse Hyper

20# vest adds a new dimension to Jump Roping

WoD:

Max Height Box Jump

Rest 5 minutes then

3 Rounds for time

Run 400m

50m Bear Crawl

30 Tire Jumps

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