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"Karabel"

10 Rounds for time:
3 Snatch (135#/95#)
15 Wall Balls (20#/14#)

* Power or Split snatch recommended

Results

Full Squat Depth and Perfectly Coiffed:

“Karabel” is a mash-up benchmark WOD of Karen (150 Wall Balls at 20# men/14# women) combined with Isabel (30 Snatches at 135#/95#). It’s a brutal combo and fitting for what was supposed to be the end of the world. Why not do a couple benchmarks in one day if it’s going to be your last CrossFit workout ever?

Power Snatch with Christa and Sean:

Keep the barbell close to the legs/body as you rise off the floor
Sweep it back towards your thighs/hips as you rise over the knees
Arms are long straps and you should shrug hard at the top of the pull over the knees (don’t bend the arms early)
Explosively jump, turn your hands over and pull yourself around the bar
Land partially in a squat with knees bent and out
Don’t jump wider just pull under faster and land lower as the weight gets heavier or you fatigue

Mobility:

“Avoid A-Rod’s Hip Injury” by Men’s Health

Good to see “mainstream” fitness outlets getting smarter. It’s only taken how many years for Men’s Health to figure out that squatting below parallel is good for you?! They also do a half decent video demo (he doesn’t reach full depth but it’s close).

“The Exercise That Boosts Your Vertical Jump” by Men’s Health

Mobility Class Tonight Cancelled!

Due to the impact of 12/12/12 and the impending end of the world as we know it, tonight’s mobility class is cancelled. Couch Rona (intentionally Rona-typed) is prepping for the apocalypse. Feel free to stretch and mobilize on your own for one last time.

Bunch of Jerks

Strength WOD:

Every Minute On the Minute (EMOM) for 10 minutes complete:
3 Push Jerks

* Clean from floor, post load.

Conditioning WOD:

2 Rounds for time:
750m Max Effort Row
Rest 4 Minutes between efforts

Results

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Rona posted this Push Jerk coaching cue below she found on the Facebooks. The efficient push jerk demands an agressive jump and land under the bar with a powerful lockout overhead. Keeping the chest angle vertical and the knees out is key to not tipping forward which can result in a miss.

CrossFit Cue of the Day:

“Miss LOW”: Use this for jerks, especially when the weight is heavy and they’ve already missed a rep. I’ll tell them the only acceptable miss is to get too far under the bar. Don’t miss being tall. It’s not about them lifting the bar any higher, they just have to pop the bar 1″ off their shoulders and the rest is a dive to get low and tight.

This helps with people who seem stuck push pressing everything and don’t trust the jerk. I’ll also clap twice [clap, CLAP] so they get the quick acceleration DOWN. You can also say “trap DOOR”, meaning the instant you float the bar, you drop through the floor and catch it locked out. ~ Justin Bergh, CrossFit Level 1 Seminar Staff

Nutrition:

Beat the stress of the Holidays. You can control it. Whole9’s Holiday Simplicity Guide

Do you like artificial sweeteners? Or maybe just every now and then? Read on. Now you have another reason(s) to follow the paleo diet or eat real food.

“Mmm…May I Have Some Poison With That?” by The Lifestyle Leprechaun

It's Your Birthday

For time:

40 Double-Unders

40 Air Squats

40 Toes-to-Bar

40 Air Squats

40 Handstand Push-ups

40 Air Squats

40 Toes-to-Bar

40 Air Squats

40 Double-Unders

Results

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Happy birthday Teri!

The birthday WOD. It can be brutal or just tough, but either way is a good, challenging workout. It usually has something you love or are good at and something you hate or is a goat. For those who are new here’s some guidelines. We will program a birthday workout for you as long as you request one in advance. When you do I need the following: days you are in the gym for the week around your birthday, age and/or birthday (for numbers to help with rep schemes), and exercises you both like and dislike. From that we will make a workout or pick a known workout that fits.

Events:

Sunday 12/16: We have two teams of four men and women each competing at the Gorilla Games at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue. Cost is $10 for spectators and kids are free. The Games will run from 7am-4pm (at least). Come join me to help cheer on your fellow SRCF peeps!

Monday 12/24: SRCF Christmas Eve workout “12 WOD’s of Christmas”. Sign-ups will be posted for a few waves. Stay tuned for the Holiday week class schedule.

Notes:

Congrats to Deb and son Zach who tackled the Cystic Fibrosis 2012 Stair Climb last week to help raise $2225 for charity. This is Deb’s 13th year in running the stairs!

Homework. Take this quick test! Remember “knees out, hips back, armpits forward”.

“Is It Your Shoulders? Quick Test.” MobilityWOD.com

"Ralph"

Main Class:

For time (Teams of 2):

40 Dumbbell Manmakers (40#/25#)
600m Run
80 Deadlifts (250#/165#)
400m Run
120 Over Box Jumps (24″/20″)
200m Run

* Partner up. Alternate reps but team must complete each run together.
** One pair of DB’s, one bar, one box.

Advanced RX Class:

Strength WOD:

1-1-1-1-1
2 Position Snatch (Floor/Mid Thigh)

Conditioning:

“Ralph”

4 Rounds for time:

8 Deadlifts (250#/165#)
16 Burpees
3 Rope Climbs (15′)
600m Run

Results

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“British Army Second Lieutenant Ralph Johnson, 24, of South Africa, assigned to the Household Cavalry Regiment, based in Windsor, England, was killed on August 1, 2006, in Helmand province, Afghanistan, when insurgents attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive device.”

Good teamwork and hard work all around today. From manmakers to 2 position snatches both classes learned something new.

WOD Demo with Overland Park CrossFit – video [wmv] [mov] [HD mov]

Notes:

Congrats to Michelle “Mums” for notching her 200th WOD in her log today!

This co-ed team workout challenge below from CrossFit HQ at the original Games site looks like a blast!

Announcing the Ranch Big Bob Winter Challenge: games.crossfit.com

“The Ranch Big Bob Winter Challenge invites teams of four to go to The Ranch in Aromas, Calif., to complete a team workout at the legendary home of the first three CrossFit Games.

To set the standard, a firebreathing team of CrossFit seminar trainers consisting of Jason Khalipa, Neal Maddox, Katie Hogan, and Sarah Hopping finished the workout in 25:49.”

Manmaker Sequence:

Upstream

For time:

30 Handstand Push-ups

40 Pull-ups

50 Kettlebell Swings (53#/35#)

60 Sit-ups (AbMat)

70 Burpees

Results

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Curt ready to KB Press:

It’s been a year since we did this last. It’s like swimming upstream. I think we will have to do this one in reverse order soon.

“5 Ways To Stay Motivated” by CrossFit Lisbeth

We think dogs kind of belong in a CrossFit gym. Read:

“Athena – and Friends” by Michael Brian, CrossFit Journal article [pdf]

Skills and Drills

For time:

1000m Row
20 Pistols
1 Muscle Up
18 Pistols
2 Muscle Ups
16 Pistols
3 Muscle Ups
14 Pistols
4 Muscle Ups
12 Pistols
5 Muscle Ups

Results

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Two advanced skills today with many ways to scale them. Working on your muscle-up? Learning a pistol? How long have you really worked on it? It takes practice and mastering all the basics to get either of them. Stay disciplined and consistent and you will improve. Now imagine if you took 3 years just to get a single under. Read the link below.

Simply amazing and inspiring. Blind but determined. Buying Into CrossFit Sight Unseen – CrossFit Community

Coaching Tip: If balance at the bottom of the pistol position is a problem, try a counterbalance by holding a 10# bumper plate. You can do this on the floor or modify off a box. Think: “drive the car”.

"Gwen"

Strength WOD:

5/5/5
Clean and Jerk

* Strength Warm-Up for “Gwen”: 10 Min. max to prep unbroken C&J for 5 reps each.

Conditioning WOD:

For Load:

15-12-9 reps of
Clean and Jerk

Rules:

Choose a weight
Touch and Go only at the floor; no dumping (Rest only off the ground)
No Re-grip allowed
Rest as needed in between sets
Use same load each set to be RX’d

Results

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This WOD was an early mainstay in CrossFit prior to Grace or Isabel. It became “Gwen” and has always been a workout where the goal is to pick a load, stay unbroken and touch and go off the floor. It’s a much different training effect when you are forced to hold onto that bar or suffer a “foul”. This is harder than Grace. It’s common to start with a weight that is too heavy or hard to hold and going unbroken forces you to miss a lift and drop it. The benefit of a strength training workout like this is you learn your upper limits and test your technique.

“Fixing the Push Press” with Lily Crosgrove – video [wmv] [mov] [HD mov]

Kristan Clever at the USAW American Open – video

Archive CF footage of the 2009 Games Champ: Mikko Salo: Death by Clean and Jerk

Back Down

Strength WOD:

20 Minutes to find a 3RM:
Back Squat

Conditioning WOD:

15-12-9-6-3 reps of each of the following for time:
Back Squat (115#/75#)
Burpees

* Alternate Back Squat and Burpees. Must clean or snatch bar from ground.

Results

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<Rant Alert>

It’s about that time where the neat freak in me surfaces and I start getting in the mood to enforcing the burpee penalty rules in the gym. If you’re new to the gym please familiarize yourself with the rules on the whiteboard and follow them. One of the rules that lately has been getting ignored is putting things back where they belong and cleaning up. In our gym we are very particular about where things go, not only just to maximize space for you to workout and for us to coach. We also care because we want our equipment to last, want it to stay clean, and want it to be easy for everyone to find when they need something. That means bands go back on the peg board by their color after you attach it to the pull-up cage, weights get stacked numbers up in the correct pile, collars go back in the bucket, jump ropes go on the wall, and trash goes IN THE TRASH. After you workout please take the time to wipe down all of your equipment. This will help us all from getting the Ebola virus in a month or two. The list is actually much longer but you probably get my point.

One other point, even though the wall may have a hole in it from a previous accident, it does not mean we want you to help by making it bigger. Making said drywall hole grow bigger each day because you are too tired to place a 35# bumper on the stack is grounds for some motivational consequences.

Thanks in advance for the cooperation and please help the new folks out by educating them when you see someone forgetting to put things back. If this post doesn’t help I will start having each class end with singing the “clean up song”.

Notes:

“Fixing the Jerk” with Coach Burgener, CrossFit Journal video [wmv] [mov] [HD mov]

How Fast is CrossFit Growing? The Chart Tells The Story

Popeye

AMRAP (As Many Rounds As Possible) in 20 Minutes:

5 Chest-to-Bar Pull-ups
10 Wall Balls (20’/14′)
15 Kettlebell Swings (53#/35#)

Results

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Today’s WOD was a main site workout from CrossFit.com that we haven’t done since May of 2011. This one leaves you with “popeye” foreamrs and no where to rest or recover but is manageable enough that you should be able to keep working. Remember chest hits bar, ball hits target, squat hits depth and swings are bell to sky, strong overhead with a tight midline every time!

Notes:

On Friday Deb, Eloy, and Aaron W. all took and passed the SRCF Advanced Skills test. This test is the pre-requisite to entering the Advanced RX class on Saturday. Congrats to all them! If you are wondering what the test is all about ask your fellow veteran squatchers and look at the older version here (it has been slightly revised since 2010). It’s a test that we recommend you only take once you feel ready but can prepare for it any and every time you are in the box.

U.S. Marines officially change their physical fitness test to include pull-ups for women.

Two things about this surprise me.

It took the Marines this long.
The rest of our Armed Forces still don’t require them for men or women (or train them).

* Note: The passing standard for a female Marine is only 3 strict pull-ups

For those working on pull-ups here’s a ton of good resources. Do your homework and work on them.

Pull-Up Instruction Series