Power Up

Strength WOD:

Power Snatch 

1/1/1/1/1

Check Out WOD Immediately After:

5 Rounds for Time:
10 Burpees
5 Power Snatches (95#/65#)

Results

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Do This:

M_Pull Transition

Then Do This:

Yay Burpees

Notes:

Here’s a paleo recipe that Laura and Marc recently made and gave two thumbs up: Pina Colada Chicken & Calypso Confetti Cauliflower from The Clothes Make The Girl

Upcoming CF events, challenges and throwdowns:

In the months ahead there are several events, challenges, field trips, Sectionals, and races out there. Here are some of them. Details to follow!

  • Feb. 5 (Saturday) from 9am to ? will be a field trip WOD for our box as Cascade CrossFit is hosting a WOD and meet and greet with us, SnoValley CrossFit and Sculptor CrossFit. This is a good chance to get out and meet CF’ers in the local community. The WOD will be open to all and announced in advance, they will run waves and it will be a good workout for everyone whether you are training for Sectionals or just wanting to get a good butt-kicking. We plan on going and would love a great turnout so let us know if you are interested! Let’s make this our first box field trip! After this one we hope to organize ones to several other boxes.
  • Mar-Apr: Tentative dates for the 2011 CF Games Sectionals Open Qualifiers. Details to come.
  • May 7 (Saturday) from 8:30am to 5pm Throwdown for Charity at CrossFit Marysville 
    • This event benefits the Child United
    • Cost is $35 donation (Includes T Shirt)
    • 3 WOD’s with prizes for top 3 men and 3 women
    • Judges needed
    • We are planning to bring a group to compete and/or judge, let us know if you are interested
    • Competitors must register at the above link
  • Most important is our own Grand Opening of SnoRidge CrossFit version 3.0! We are working to finalize on getting keys to the new space hopefully by this weekend to start work. Once we move in (by early Feb) and get settled we are targeting a late Feb. “Grand Opening” weekend. Details to come!

Happy Birthday Curtis!

AMRAP (As Many Rounds As Possible) in 21 Minutes:

5 Hand Release Push-ups
10 Kettlebell Swings (53#/35#)
15 Air Squats

Results 

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The Birthday Boy:

Curtis BDay KB Swing

Why 21 Minutes? The 21st is his birthday. We did it early to ensure he made it. If we went with his age we would all still be doing the WOD. Happy birthday to the longest “tenured” dude in the box! In a year and a half we’ve managed to somehow teach Curtis how to touch his shoelaces (not quite toes), jump off the floor, split his shorts during a WOD, and channel his rage just enough to not scare the living daylights out of the kids.

Dr. Michael Ray on MacronutrientsCrossFit Journal Preview – video [wmv] [mov]

“Rope Climb Advice” with Rebecca Voigt – video [wmv] [mov]

Curtis in his  pre-WOD ritual of kissing the floor of a real CrossFit box:

Curtis Hand Release PU

Rest vs. Euro Training

Quote of the Day: “Rest is the sweet sauce of labor” ~ Plutarch

Jenna had her baby shower today. Check out this CrossFit cake!

JennaBabyshowerOHS

Mikko Salo completes “Fran” in 2:17 – video [wmv] [mov]

From Moe: “Attention Early AM Squatchers…this week starts the Monday, Wednesday 6am schedule (no more Tues/Thurs)! Come on in and experience early morning Happiness in the Pain Cave!”

Hope everyone had an active rest day today. Or at least you did some Euro Training. Time to kick off another week of training. Who’s birthday WOD(s) are we doing? What benchmark may make an appearance? Will Jeremy D. showcase his Dance Central rump-shaker skills somehow before the 6pm WOD on Friday? More importantly will we start seeing some “Euro Training” work it’s way into the box? I am a FAN! Combine with shake weights and watch the results fly.

“EURO…TRAINING…EURO…TRAINING…TIME!”

Euro Training:

   

"Fran"

Three rounds, 21, 15, 9 reps of the each of the following for time:
Thruster (95#/65#)
Pull-ups 

Results 

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Community Coaching – what today was all about:

Community Coaching

Jana coaching and cheering on Nadia

Today was FRAN-TASTIC! Congrats to all the first timers who hit this Benchmark “Girl”, as well as to all who PR’d! The intensity was high right from the warm-up for the early group training for Sectionals Qualifiers and carried on through the morning class. There was a great vibe of coaching, cheering, concentration, and support in the box the entire morning. Ensuring everyone had a judge/coach was vital to eliminating “slop” and making sure only good reps were counted. Way to kick Fran in the ass and send her on her way!

Enjoy your weekends, eat clean, stay strong!

From the CrossFit Archives:

Watch “The Story of Fran” with Coach Glassman, a CrossFit Journal preview video [wmv] [mov]

“Virtual Fran” Experiment – video [wmv] [mov]

Flickr Album of some highlights from today:

   

Games Throwback

5 Rounds for Time:
5 Deadlift (275#/185#)
10 Burpees 

Results 

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Deads and Burpees with Mollie and Steph: 

Mollie Deads_Steph Burpees

This WOD is from the 2008 CF Games and one we have done previously. This is day 2 of 3 featuring couplets. I personally like WOD’s that are couplets and triplets the most. Simple, efficient, and capable of a serious ass kicking. They don’t need to get cute or be a laundry list of movements. Those have their place but a well chosen couplet can be the most effective workout and leave you fearful of repeating them.

Today marks 1 week into our Nutrition Challenge and food logs are coming in. We will be reviewing them over the weekend so please turn them in tomorrow or email us if they aren’t on btwb.com. The most important point: You are 1 week in! Stick with it! “You can do it!” (cue the Rob Schneider voice) 

Several of you have been sharing your Nutrition Challenge results, experiences, recipes, cravings and questions on Facebook and in the gym. Keep that up. Use the discussion tab the SnoRidge CrossFit group to share recipes, or just print one you want to share out or write them on the whiteboard in the box. One of the cool things we have heard are the MANY people who are already reporting body comp changes and weight loss after a week. Stick through the energy swings of switching to cleaner food and let your body and metabolism adjust.

Lorraine attended Todd Widman’s Nutrition Lecture at CrossFit Advantage last night. Here is what she had to say about it: “Todd Widman’s Nutrition talk was excellent. Highly recommend people making the trek to Imperial (CF) on the 25th if they can. Really charismatic speaker sharing very common sense information.”

Nutrition Discussion with CFHQ Trainer Todd Widman Upcoming Dates:

  • 1/25 at Imperial CrossFit: 5:30-7:30pm Cost $10
  • Practical discussion on Paleo/Zone nutrition and the benefits and common sense to changing the way you eat.
  • Several of us in the box are planning to go to Imperial for this. Let us know if you are interested. It’s worth it!

Preview of tomorrow’s WOD which happens to be a couplet:

Graham Holmberg does “Fran” in 2:17 – video [wmv] [mov]

Snatch and Go

5 Rounds for time:

15 Power Snatches (95#/65#)
400m Run

Results

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Grip

Compare to Previous Results (1 year Anniversary of Curtis’s 1st Muscle-up!)

Homework assignment – Go read:

So I just want you to know I really suck at Snatching” from OlyAthlete.com

How to “Power Snatch

Overhead

Prizes for the “Stop the Slop Challenge” ends on Sat. 2/19:

  • Nutrition Challenge Winner (person with highest % weight loss overall) gets:
    • $200 in cash money (We are gonna “make it RAIN”!)
    • 1 Month Unlimited Free to SnoRidge aka “The House of Awesome”
    • 1 Year CrossFit Journal Subscription
  • Nutrition Challenge Runner-up gets:
  • Performance Challenge Winner (person with the highest % time improved overall; scaling will remain the same for test/re-test) gets:
    • RX Jump Rope of your choice (or Rogue Fitness gift certificate equivalent value if you own one)
    • 1 Year CrossFit Journal Subscription
  • Performance Challenge Runner-up gets:

Doubled Over

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

5 Knees-to Elbows
10 Wall Balls (20#/14#)
20 Double-Unders

Results

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Julie hits the squat in the Wall Ball throw while Moe demos double-unders:

Julie_WB DUs with Moe

If you haven’t posted your size and are close to 250 WOD’s and want to purchase a 250 WOD Club T-Shirt then go here and post to comments so we can place the order by Friday!

“Stop the Slop” Nutrition and Performance Challenge Day 5 Update:

For those who have been logging their meals on beyondthewhiteboard.com I’ve been reviewing them daily. Here’s some observations, feedback, and random highlights thus far:

  • Keep it up! Keep logging your meals (you can name each meal to separate them)
  • Consult those Whole9/SRCF Nutrition guides and read them thoroughly
  • Keep putting in the detail in your logs. Things like sleep, quantity or servings, or how you feel are good to look back on the longer you go to see how the nutrition change is or is not effecting you.
  • Everyone is mostly eating well balanced meals of protein/fat/carb with cleaner ingredients for all of these macronutrients
  • Some of you should up the veggies!
  • Snacks consist mostly of a handful of “x” nuts, 1/2 apple or orange, hard boiled egg, or Lara Bar
  • When eating a snack, try to have some fat or protein with the carb source; i.e. 1/2 banana with almond butter or have a chicken lettuce wrap with avocado and peppers
  • Some post WOD nutrition items sounds so good I may hang out with you and beg after your WOD
  • Some breakfasts and dinners are so awesome I am going to show up on your doorstep
  • Lose the creamer substitutes in the coffee people! No Soy Delight, Coffee Mate, or “insert brand name of colorful carton of inflammation” here. Try unsweetened coconut milk (make sure it’s the full fat kind in the can found usually in the Asian food area of the gro-sto) or heavy whipping cream if you don’t like coconut milk and absolutely need to add to your coffee. (Note: I know heavy cream is against the preaching of the Paleo Gods. That said I would rather you use a splash of that to wean yourself off the partially hydrogenated poison of coffeemate or the evils of sugar spiked soy milk)
  • I have yet to see anyone list rice or pasta! 
  • Don’t drink SODA! Diet soda or plain soda does not matter. It is harmful and undoing everything you are doing in the day. If you need something with taste other than plain water try a little squeeze of lime or lemon in your water, Perrier or plain Talking Rain.
  • Alcohol is surprisingy not being reported, although someone listed 1/8 ounce of crack cocaine… 🙂
  • Everyone is making notable positive changes and doing well. Don’t quit! If you need help ask your trainers. Don’t expect us to tell you it’s okay to binge and cheat though! We will give you tough love and encourage you all at the same time.

If you aren’t using btwb.com to log your meals, then don’t forget to write it down or use some sort of method to track them and turn them into us on Saturday.

Tomorrow we will detail the prizes for winners and runners-up of both the 6 week nutrition challenge and performance challenge (the emphasis on the prize pot will favor the nutrition winner and nutrition runner-up winner).

Notes:

Part 2 of the insights into the main site WOD programming discussion from CrossFit.com (I love this video series):

Tony Budding reviews the last WOD cycle – video [wmv] [mov]

Read: CrossFit Lisbeth: 15 Things CrossFit Has Taught Me About Life

"Bear"

“Bear Complex” 

Perform 5 rounds of 7 sets (complexes) of the following sequence:

Power Clean

Front Squat

Push Press

Back Squat

Push Press

Rules: 

  1. Bar must touch the ground each sequence but cannot rest on the ground or it terminates the set. 
  2. Goal is to increase loads each round to complete “The Bear” with max load.  
  3. Rest as needed between sets.
  4. No re-grip allowed.
  5. You must power clean the bar to full standing position before squatting the weight. (Deadlift to Hang Power Clean) is allowed.

Results

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Josh tackles the “Bear”:

Josh tackles a Bear

First off who felt like they were mauled by a bear? This WOD usually fills you with doubt and dread, fearing that next set. The rule of no re-grip on the ground or letting the bar go makes this unique. Even more unique is the barbell complex (a series of lifts done together to equal one “set” or rep). A complex is useful in not only working several muscle groups but also in training movement. Who felt better about their form or technique with at least one of the required movements after the WOD was over? The repetition and focus on achieving the number required helps train technique and safety in either performing the reps together or bailing. If you are new and didn’t get as heavy as you like don’t worry, the right thing is to use this WOD to work on technique and adding weight later as you gain experience.

Bear Complex

Nutrition Challenge: This short preview video from the CrossFit Journal is a good example of how preparation of the week’s meals can keep you on course. If you are in the Challenge stay strict and log those foods. We are able to see everyone’s logs that are using beyondthewhiteboard.com so that helps in submissions. Expect feedback as the week’s tick by. Read your nutrition guides!

Nutrition Prep Day with the Chans: Part 1” with Matt and Cherie Chan,CrossFit Journal preview video [wmv] [mov]

Class Schedule Changes:

  • 0830am class every Tues/Thurs with Mark B
  • 0600am class moving to every Mon/Wed with Moe

This Thursday 1/13 we will start a 0830am class every Tues/Thurs with Mark B. If this time proves popular we will make it a keeper. If not Mark’s feelings will be deeply hurt and he will be an emotional mess for at least a week or so. Let’s help Mark have a happy face!

Beginning next week the 6am classes with Moe will shift to Mon/Wed at 6am. Everyone in the 6am class is prepared for this shift but if you are planning to get up and WOD at the crack of dawn note that the days are changing. This should better help both the coach and those who are in the class manage their schedules.

Attention Seahawks Fans! Blitz does CrossFit at CF Advantage:

   

"Baseline"

2 Rounds for Time:
400m Run (or 500m Row for those who started with row)
40 Squats
30 Sit-ups
20 Push-ups
10 Pull-ups

Results

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Compare to Previous Results

Rona counting Amy:

Amy_Baseline

Gotta love Baseline. Almost every time you do it you get a little faster, or move from one level of scaling to another, or find a way to make it harder. One of these days we will do a Rowing / Chest-to-Bar Pull-up Baseline. Or a Hand Release Push-up / Weighted Sit-up Baseline. So many possibilities…

As we are a couple days into our “Stop the Slop” Nutrition and Performance Challenge I felt it was a good WOD to program early in the cycle so that we can repeat it along with Jackie at the end to gauge improvement. Keep the focus on eating clean, make every rep count and see what happens in 6 weeks!

Speaking of eating clean, some of you and your coaches are posting what you are eating on Facebook to share and keep each other motivated. Keep it up! Share your recipes, ask for help if you need it.

Welcome to Heidi, Jeff, Rhonda and Julie are finished with Elements as of this week and will be joining classes! They still want to come after learning “tabata’s”!

Elements

Nutrition Discussion with CFHQ Trainer Todd Widman Upcoming Dates:

  • 1/13 at CrossFit Advantage: 6-8pm Cost $10
  • 1/25 at Imperial CrossFit: 5:30-7:30pm Cost $10
  • Several of us in the box are planning to go to Imperial for this. Let us know if you are interested. It’s worth it!

Stupid Human CrossFit tricks:

“Pull Up Innovation” with Pat Barber and Chris Spealler – video [wmv] [mov]

2011 CrossFit Games update:

The 2011 CrossFit Games: July 29-31 at the Home Depot Center will have a $1 Million total purse and $250K first prize thanks to Reebok

Jenna rocking push presses in her 3rd Trimester:

Jenna_Push Press Baseline