Deadly Double

Strength focus:
Deadlift
3×3
(3 rounds of 3 Reps max weight deadlift)
 
Immediately after complete the following WOD.

3 Rounds for time of:
10 Deadlifts (225#/135#)
50 Double-Unders
Results
Deadlift practice was good today. Everyone did their best angry gorilla interpretation (a cue that we borrowed from Kurtis at Rainier CF) at the set up to force staying on the heels, driving the knees back, and setting the back angle prior to the pull off the floor.
 
Double-Under practice was a nice exercise in frustration for many. Keep at it and focus on alternating with those singles and that speed and coordination will improve. In the two pictures below, Sherry is doing double-unders. Jeremy is doing single-unders. Note their jumps are the same, and both their wrists should both be lower and closer to the hips (to reduce catching the feet), but the difference between the two is the wrist speed to pass the rope under the feet twice. 

Sherry DU Jeremy DU

Notes:
Grace results are final. Our winners are Jim and Jorge who split the pot! Both had the largest improvement in two categories. Jim was the only person in the competition who in the re-test completed Grace as RX’d. He also did it in a faster time than his first attempt with 20 less pounds. His RX’d  time was a very impressive 4:27. Jorge had the largest overall time improvement from his initial go to his retest. He halved his first time in the re-test. Any disputes need to be brought to the attention of the “Sorry About Your Luck Panel”. 

Fight Gone Bad IV

One Day. One Brutal Workout. One Purpose. 

3 Rounds of Max Effort for 1 Minute each of the following exercises:
WallBall (20#/14#)
Sumo Deadlift High Pull (75#/55#)
Box Jump (20″)
Push Press (75#/55#)
Row (for Cal)
Continuous running clock with 1 minute rest between rounds.  Score total reps completed and calories rowed.

Results

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This was it! CrossFit affiliates across the country participated today in the fourth annual FGB fundraiser benefiting Athletes for a Cure and The Wounded Warrior Project. Overall the fundraiser raised close to a million dollars. As a collective group SnoRidge CrossFit, CF Redmond, and Team Schneider raised over $1500! Not counting matching funds!

We were proud to have 29 athletes of all levels and ages hit this WOD with max effort and max support from their fellow CrossFitters in our box. Today was motivating and inspiring on a number of levels for us. Thanks to all who came, participated, scored, cheered, and kept that energy level high with each wave. We hope we can do this again next year. Take a nice rest day tomorrow, you all earned it!

CF Redmond, Team Schneider, SnoRidge CF

View the photo album here:

         

"This Will Make a Man (or Woman) Out of You"

5 Rounds for Time of:

200m Run
20 Jumping Lunges
10 Man Makers (25#/15#)

Results
Jumping Lunges or Man-Makers? Which was tougher? Survey says… Both! Pretty much an even split among everyone polled for what was harder. Both worked some of the areas commonly neglected in typical gym training: balance, coordination, speed and explosiveness, and functional movement using one half of your body. 

         

Notes:
The “Grace” Challenge is now OFFICIALLY OVER! Neil made his up tonight. Will finalize the results and announce tomorrow.

Congrats to Steph, Pat, and Jeremy who all completed Elements today and will be joining classes starting tomorrow! All three are fired up! Welcome to Solveig who started Elements. She came, saw, and pretty much conquered the “Intro WOD”. 

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FIGHT GONE BAD: Our workout fundraiser event is Saturday morning from 10AM until 2pm or so. We expect a busy day and have over 30 folks coming from our box, Dan is bringing some athletes from CF Redmond, and a large group from Dupont. Feel free to come join us as we all workout for two great causes: Athletes for a Cure and The Wounded Warrior Project. Or come watch! A great way to get some exposure to CrossFit, meet great people, and get motivated. (Dan made the incredibly cool graphic on the right.)

As a gym SnoRidge CrossFit has raised over $1234 in donations. That is just some outstanding stuff. And I need to submit this to my company for a matching grant tomorrow. Everyone should be proud for garnering support for this. Seeya on Saturday!

Taste of Tabata

Tabata Intervals:
Perform 8 rounds of each of the following exercises with alternating intervals of 20 seconds work/10 sec rest:

Wall Jumps (or box jumps)
Push-ups
Air Squats

Rest 1 minute between exercises.

We gave everyone a taste of Tabata intervals today for our third park WOD for lululemon athletica in Bellevue Square. Even the sun cooperated with 20 second intervals of sun followed by 10 seconds of clouds. Amanda, Lyndi and Eli all came out to represent and get their WOD in. Join us next Sunday for our last WOD in Belle Square Park!

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Tabata Push ups lululemon WOD

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CrossFit in the park!

We will be holding free CrossFit workouts this Sunday and next (9/20 and 9/27 only) for the Bellevue Square lululemon athletica location!

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WOD will be at 9:25am every Sunday for September only. We are halfway through and have just two workouts left. Come work out with us! (Meet Michelle in the store inside the mall). More details here.

Grace the Re-Test

For Time:

30 Clean and Jerks (135#/95#)

Results

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Last time we did this WOD was on August 4th. We initiated the Grace Challenge. 

These were the rules:
“Everyone who wants to participate can throw in $5 to the pot, do this WOD (if you didn’t today) and set their baseline. One month from now we will do it again and most improved wins the pot (either by time or by advancing the farthest from scaled to RX’d, coaches excluded).”

Here were the results for everyone who did Grace on 8/4 and for those who missed it that week:

Once everyone who threw into the pot does it this week we will tally the results and according to the above rules figure out for those that threw into the pot who the winners are. Stay tuned. I fully expect there to be a raging controversy and declarations of elections fraud and favoritism. I will put it out there that the only rule not mentioned above that we are sticking to is the Canadian exchange rate is in effect for Curtis for his time and weight (per Michelle).

Our next challenge will be called “The Math Testosterone Challenge”. It will be a timed event in which the men with the most testosterone will be given a complex math equation and then must solve it on the whiteboard faster than the other men while arguing why their solution is better and they should win the pot of money. It will be limited to Jim, Travis and Curtis only. If you were at the late class tonight you would have witnessed this post Grace.

Clean and Jerk Instruction video by CrossFit Boston at Again Faster:

        

Teaching the Power Clean and Push Jerk from Patrick Cummings on Vimeo.

Swingers

4 Rounds for time of:

400m Run
25 Kettlebell Swings (53#/35#)

Results

Welcome Bonnie (shown completing Elements), Tom, Bruce and Richard who all are joining us:
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September seems like a month of events, challenges and birthdays. Everything from opening the new gym, holding Sunday park workouts for lululemon athletica in Bellevue Square park, celebrating several upcoming birthdays [WARNING! WOD Alert!], having the follow-up WOD for the “Grace Challenge”, and the Fight Gone Bad workout fundraiser on 9/26 we will be a bunch of busy CrossFitters!

If that isn’t enough for you then October will be equally chock full of nuts. Of the paleo variety. We are putting a few things out there to gauge interest levels. See below and post to comments if interested.

One: Nutrition Session – We would host a Saturday morning set aside for a session geared around crash diets vs. lifestyle change, paleo and zone eating and the effect on you as an athlete, types of foods to eat and avoid, eating pre and post WOD, sugar and high glycemic foods and their effect on you, and other topics. Who knows maybe even a light paleo snack bar afterwards! A few of you planted this “seed” in our heads (paleo terminology – eat nuts and seeds).

Two: Salmon Days Rotary Run 5k run – Lyndi, Amanda, Lucy and Lorri all talked about running this race. It’s on Sunday 10/4 at 9am. There is also a 10k. For those who want to run we could create a SRCF Team for you to register as part of.

Three: Halloween WOD! We will be having a “trick or treat” WOD on Hallows’ Eve (10/31) in the morning. Costumes required (we aren’t kidding)! Plenty of time to get a workout in and then gorge yourself on sweets. Oh wait, never mind that part because after the nutrition session you won’t eat candy anymore.

Fight Gone Bad fundraiser status: We have raised $854 as a gym for two great causes (Athletes for a Cure and The Wounded Warrior Project)! Donations on behalf of our gym can be made here.

Fight Gone Bad

The dry run. Today was our first official WOD in the new box! As I sit here typing (and Michelle steals my wine) I cannot believe what I just typed. The NEW BOX. Weird, but very cool.

3 Rounds of Max Effort for 1 Minute each of the following exercises:

WallBall (20#/14#)
Sumo Deadlift High Pull (75#/55#)
Box Jump (20″)
Push Press (75#/55#)
Row (for Cal)

Continuous clock with 1 minute rest between rounds.  Score total reps.

Results:

Movement Prep before the WOD:
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It was a great turnout and and even more fun for the gang that went to Zoka for coffee afterwards. We look forward to the re-match with the “Fight” on 9/26 for the fundraiser (link to the right). We want to thank all of you for coming out over your holiday weekend for our first day at the new gym. We especially want to thank everyone for their help this weekend as well as Deb for helping as a scorer.
View this slideshow of the WOD and the new box:

  

Burpees in the rain!

Today the weather was lulu. Crazy. Wet. Gray. Cool. Seattle-ish. All in all it was normal for here. Perfect for an outdoor workout. We held a free WOD in the Bellevue Square Park with lululemon athletica today. Despite the downpour, we had a good crowd and Amanda came out to show us some love and do some burpees. Thanks Amanda!

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Sunday WOD Gathering
The Fight Gone Bad Fundraiser is right around the corner. It will be 9/26 and we will be participating. Create your own fundraising page (link over on the right) or donate any amount to our page for two important causes. We will be getting acquainted with this WOD soon so that everyone is ready. 
Watch here for a good video on why we are supporting this. 
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See you all tomorrow morning at 10am for our only WOD of the day. Make sure you go to our new address at 8016 Bracken Place, Snoqualmie.

King Plank and our Friends at King CF

Alternate the following for time:

10, 9, 8, 7, 6… down to 1 of Overhead Squat (95#/65#)
200m Run (every round)

Results

Curtis is the king of planks (from yesterday). He held his for 3:32 the other day outlasting all others (including Sherry who was hanging in there at 3 min.).

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Speaking of King’s, we attended King CrossFit’s pre-Grand opening get together tonight. We had a great time meeting up with other affiliate owners and seeing their new box. If anyone is interested go to their open house tomorrow which is from 10-4 in Renton. Address is on their website.
Group picture:
King CF, Foundation CF, and SnoRidge CF
Pictured (L to R) Us, Ron, Arvin, Glen, Allen (all King CF), and Andrew (Foundation CF)
The Box:
King CF