Goat Practice

Skills WOD:

12 Minutes:
Goat Practice

* Pick a skill you NEED to work on and do it.

Conditioning WOD:

For Time:

750m Row
100 Wall Balls (20#/14#)
750m Row

Results

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Congrats to Coach Mark who used his fitness and competed this past weekend in Seattle at the “BeastFest” and battled through 5 WOD’s to finish in 2nd place! He had a tight battle for that podium with some pretty fit men and fellow Regional competitors. Way to kill it Mark!

Mark at BeastFest on the Harbor Steps WOD:

Mark_BeastFest

The Reebok Life – Ben Smith Ben Smith does a WOD at Reebok HQ and misses his fridge. (For those who don’t “get it” Ben trained in his small garage gym squeezed in front of a fridge through multiple Games years. The fridge became an icon.)

Nutrition:

The Advocare 24 Day Challenge starts Saturday 9/28!

What is it? The AdvoCare 24 Day Challenge is a nutritional supplements bundle that is designed to help you detox your body, lose weight, lean out, and improve your health. Fall is here! It’s the perfect time to recharge your body and health and create good habits before the holidays! 

Details:

• The Cleanse Phase: Days 1-10 
This phase helps remove waste, preparing for optimal nutrient absorption.

• The Max Phase: Days 11-24 
During the Max Phase, you’ll give your body the best tools to achieve your weight-management goal.

The benefits of the Advocare 24 Day Challenge:

• It can be designed for everybody! Whether you are looking for weight management or if you are already fit and want to lose a few inches and lean out.
• Average person loses 10 pounds, 10 inches, & an average 3-4% body fat in 24 days.
• Removes toxins from your body.
• Discover hidden food allergies.
• Naturally replace harmful Candida in the gut with beneficial organisms.
• Reduce inflammation in the GI tract.
• Establish positive eating habits.
• Look and feel great!
• The 24 day Advocare Challenge helps you establish healthy eating patterns, improves digestion and nutrient absorption, and identifies foods that the body cannot properly digest.

Most common transformative changes:

• More energy
• Weight loss in weight and/or inches
• Less Inflammation/Less Pain
• Better Digestion
• Improved Mood

Common questions:

*Yes, you still workout! You do everything in your normal routine.

*Yes, you still eat the same. Unless you eat like crap. Then, I would suggest cleaning up your diet. And, there are no “specific rules” but it is a detox so it is recommended that you cut out alcohol.

*Yes, non-SRCF peeps can participate! If your spouse, your family member, your neighbor, your friend (etc) is interested in doing the 24 Day Challenge please pass on the information. They are welcome to play with us!

*Upon completion of the 24-Day Challenge™, these products can continue to be taken every day as part of a healthy lifestyle.

The COST of the 24 Day Challenge is $253.25 + tax. 
The 24-Day Challenge Supplements Bundle:
• One box of Herbal Cleanse – Citrus
• One bottle of OmegaPlex®
• One box of AdvoCare Spark® – Mandarin Orange
• One box of AdvoCare Spark® – Fruit Punch
• Your choice of one box of Meal Replacement Shakes 
• One box of MNS® Max 3, C, or E
• Two bottles of Catalyst®

That’s only $10 a day! And remember, Spark replaces your daily coffee/tea, so you’ll save that by not going to Starbucks!! You will also have Meal Replacement Shakes during your Max Phase so, again, that is money that you won’t be spending.

This is an investment in your health…. The best investment you can make!

**Join us Saturday, September 28th at 10:30 for a short presentation on Advocare and the 24 Day Challenge. Find out about what these supplements can do for you and pick up your products! ** 

To sign up or for more details or any other questions see Michelle.

Fun Friday

Strength WOD:

10 Minutes to find a 1RM
Power Clean

Conditioning WOD:

7 Rounds for time:

5 Power Cleans (165#/115#)
7 Deadlifts (165#/115#)
9 Hand Release Push-ups

Results

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Congrats are in order to a bunch of people today. First to Meghann on joining the 500th WOD Club and second to everyone who PR’d their power clean! The last is the 5pm class time set a PR with a huge crew. It’s great to see so many PR’s lately.

Fun to watch (also a really good thruster programming idea…): Big Sky, Montana: Men’s Final

Nutrition:

Did you know? Coconut water is a natural source of electrolytes. Eight ounces of coconut water has more electrolyte content than double that of traditional sports drinks with about half the carbohydrates.

Warm-Up with Matt Chan“, CrossFit Journal video [ipod] [mov] [HD mov]

Saer_PC

Bar Method

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

200m Run
3 Deadlift (135#/95#)
5 Hang Power Clean (135#/95#)
7 Push Jerk (135#/95#)

Results

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Brutal Fun:

Push Jerks_Elliott

Bar method CrossFit style. Fun complex today that tested how long you were willing to hold the barbell. This complex built from the ground up and came down to the efficiency of the cleans and the endurance of maintaining the push jerks. 

Sunset BB Complex_Spence

R You Rogue – Chris Spealler Rogue Fitness

Reebok Crossfit Games 2013 Men Legless Event: Final Heat

10 Celebrities and Athletes Touting the Benefits of the Paleo Diet

Late Night Class PR

Complete As Many Rounds As Possible (AMRAP) in 17 minutes of:

6 Deadlifts (205#/145#)
9 Up and Over Box Jumps (24″/20″)
200m Run

Results

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7pm Class is the new 5pm! World Record with what felt like 100 people hitting the gym for the late class.

DL

Plus congrats to Lindsay on WOD #400, Bill on #250, Elliott on #100 and Amy N. for her 1st pistol!

SRCF Flag shirts are in. If you pre-ordered then pick yours up. Extras will be available for sale after all pre-orders are handed out or set aside.

AMRAP

The Fate of Marcus Hendren” video by Dave Leys – [video]

Poor Diet Sinks U.S. in Health Rankings” by Andrea Cecil, CrossFit Journal article [pdf]

7pm Class World Record Pic (Animal Pose):

Killer Animal

Outtake #1 (I missed the “GQ smile” memo):

Outtake

Outtake #2 (Dustin was very excited after the WOD):

Outtake 2

Thrusters Suck

Skills WOD:

3 Rounds of Max Reps Strict Pull-ups

* 3 minutes rest between rounds

Conditioning WOD:

5 Rounds for time:

21 Thrusters (75#/55#)
21 Double-Unders

Results

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It’s weird to me that people ask for professional worker-outer’s autographs. Then again I always thought it was weird to ask for any sports athletes autographs.  “Rich Froning: Getting Recognized” – [video]

CrossFit Moves Into the Mainstream Without Spending On Ads video.foxnews.com

Paleo/Whole30 Shopping Lists:Autoimmune, FODMAP, and Low-Histamine whole9life.com

This one is missing the photo-bomb:

Missing a Photobomb

We have a couple new shirts coming our way. Stay tuned and they should be here around the end of the first week of July.

Flag White shirt 
Flag Black shirt

Hand Forged shirt

Milestones

Strength WOD:

1/1/1/1/1
Power Snatch 

Conditioning WOD:

For Time:

10 Power Snatch (155#/105#)
2 Rope Climbs (15′)
8 Power Snatch
2 Rope Climbs
6 Power Snatch 
2 Rope Climbs
4 Power Snatch  
2 Rope Climbs
2 Power Snatch  
2 Rope Climbs

* Sub 2 Supine Rope Climbs or 6 Supine Ring Rows per Rope Climb

Results

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Happy 30th birthday to Lynn (she requested a rope climb birthday WOD) and congrats to Bill, Elliott and Holly for their 1 year anniversary with starting CrossFit! All great milestones and reasons to celebrate!

A power snatch should look like a full (or squat) snatch with shallow squat depth. As you go heavier the squat gets deeper:

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Overview and highlights of who qualified from our Region for the Games: North West Crowns Its Fittest games.crossfit.com

Wes Piatt’s Third Place – [video]

Nutrition:


Turning 7's Into 10's

As Many Rounds As Possible in 15 Minutes:

10 Kettlebell Swings (70#/53#)
10 Box Jumps (24″/20″)
10 Ring Dips

Results

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KBS Box Jumps

Ring Dips

Yesterday the rep scheme was all 7’s. Today was all 10’s.

Wanna see Regionals footage this weekend? Check out the Live streaming or recap footage each day from various regions in action at the link above.

Jason Khalipa sets the CrossFit Games Regional Record “Jackie” time of 5:04NorCal Regional.

CrossFit: Turning Sevens Into Tens Promo

Nutrition:

Book Review:Paleo For Dummies by whole9life.com

Events:

Have a safe Memorial Day weekend!

Monday (5/27) we will run the annual Memorial Day Murph fundraiser workout.

For those unfamiliar with LT Michael Murphy, aka “Murph”, he was an American hero and Medal of Honor recipient and honored with one of the first CrossFit Hero workouts. If you register on the MDM website you will get the annual t-shirt with proceeds going to help three charities that benefit our troops/families of fallen vets.

Murph is a tough WOD. We will push for correct scaling for each person (such as a 1/2 Murph)! 

3 rules for any Hero WOD:
1. No complaining, bitching or whining.
2. No quitting.
3. Remember what this represents and honor those who have fallen. 

• Monday 5/27 we will be open for the morning only for Murph (along with 1/2 Murph – cut reps, runs in half)
• Class times will be 0830, 0930 and 1030 (Gym is CLOSED for all PM classes)
• Please sign up on the whiteboard IN THE GYM. If a smaller group is ready be prepared to go, as we will utilize upstairs if needed. 

“Murph” WOD (aka “Body Armor” – what he called it):
Run 1 mile
100 Pull-ups
200 Push-ups
300 Squats
Run 1 mile

* Break up the pull-ups, push-ups, and squats how you want. Wear a 20# vest if you have it.

Snatch and Run

Strength WOD:

2-2-2-2-2
High Hang Snatch

* Vertical dip and torso (“Down and Up”)

Checkout WOD:

3 Rounds for time of:

400m Run
15 Squat Snatch (75#/55#)
9 Handstand Push-ups

Results

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Snatch Synch Snatch Synch 2

Getting back in the saddle has been slow this week but coaching good people again and getting a few days of sun has truly helped. Thank you all!

Got your Regionals tickets yet? Go here to buy them. We are not going to do a private box as the entry rules are limited to the specific ticket holders and we don’t want to sit in a box while not everyone from the gym could hang out. So get your tix and then we will carve out an area in the stands. 

Nutrition:

I know none of you would eat garbage from McD’s or let your kids do the same but if you were having a moment of absolute weakness or somehow forgot your common sense at home remember this:

14 Year Old McDonald’s Hamburger Looks Almost New foxnews.com

Cooking With Kids: Steamed Kale” with Lanette Doran, CrossFit Journal video [wmv] [mov] [HD mov]

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Back To Basics

4 Rounds for Time:

400m Run
50 Squats 

* Rest 2 minutes after above WOD then complete:

Max Reps Pull-ups (Single Attempt)

Results

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Coach Michelle and Couch RoRo brief the group before it’s go time:

Supine Coaching

3-2-1 Go

On Sunday we received a card that practically everyone from the gym signed and the gift of an incredible blooming magnolia tree that is the same as my mother’s favorite tree in her backyard. Knowing that it will be planted in our backyard to bloom each year is a heartwarming tribute to her and I cannot put into words how grateful I really am. I sent a picture of the tree to my brother last night and he was speechless. You all are amazing, generous and thoughtful people and true friends. The past couple weeks has been very hard with her passing but all of your support has helped in countless ways to buoy our spirits. Every time I look at that tree I will not only remember her but I will also remember what an amazing family SnoRidge CrossFit is. Thank you.

Notes:

I wanted to share this email Amy N. sent after the recent squat/rope climb WOD. I thought it was cool:

“Rope a dope – a WOD I remember very well. My #113 WOD in November of 2011 where I let my ego get the better of me. It’s a 7:00 pm class, Tom coaching and Buskas sitting on the bumpers…and me struggling! Seriously struggling to clean the 95#, failing it over and over. You coached me through the whole thing and I finished that WOD RX is 23.31.

In the end, I should have scaled and you tried to get me to during the WOD but I was stubborn. That night you blogged about picking the right weights and not letting your ego get the best of you and how if a Coach suggests you scale something, especially during a WOD, to do it. I felt like a total tool in the morning, like I just got bitch slapped by Coach Tom. Anyway, the whole point of this is. that this week we did Rope a dope again and I’m happy to say I did it in 13:29, didn’t fail one clean and did the back squats unbroken – I’ll take a 10 minute PR. Such a great feeling especially remembering the struggle the first time I did it. I love CrossFit.” ~ Amy N.

Nutrition:

Dr. Oz covered the Paleo Diet today with Dr. Loren Cordain. Let’s hope he believes it. If he does then maybe he can convince Bob Harper to stop selling oatmeal.


Barbell Chipper

Skills WOD:

8-10 minutes Muscle-up practice

Conditioning WOD:

For time:

10 Press (115#/75#)
15 Overhead Squats (115#/75#)
20 Push Press (115#/75#)
25 Front Squats (115#/75#)
30 Push Jerk (115#/75#)
35 Back Squats (115#/75#)

Results

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On Your Back

Tough chipper today using only a barbell. I think this workout surprised many. A physical and mental grind.

BB Chipper Back Squats

Quote of the day: “Last year and at the start of this year I felt the same…why pay money for workouts when I clearly won’t make regionals?!  I felt it was silly. Then someone said it was a way to support a sport you love!  It’s not actually that much money. Through out these past weeks its been much more. I’ve watched people push themselves beyond what they would in normal everyday wods. Some getting skills they never have had. I’ve also seen amazing camaraderie that can’t be matched.   I so don’t regret signing up. Even with the 150 wall balls, I would do it again.” ~ Teri R. on what the Open means to her. (By the way you are doing it again next year.)

Open WOD 13.5 announces tomorrow at 5pm. Who’s ready for these two epic final week match-ups?


Meg vs Jer


Josh vs Jer

CF Games:

Dave Castro Gives Insight to 13.5” – [video]

CrossFit Games Update: April 2, 2013” – [video]

Nutrition:

Top 11 Biggest Lies of Mainstream Nutrition by authoritynutrition.com