a big thanks

This weekend proved pretty hectic-as well as our usual classes-we had a small gym warming party-thanks to all my guys it was great to see you all. A special thanks to the gentlemen in the photo (Colm and Will) who travelled over from CrossFit Ireland http://www.crossfit.ie/

for the weekend and went through a fairly horrible bear complex too, as well as the CrossFit Manchester gang http://crossfitmanchester.com/
and Chet from the functional fitness forum FuncKey
http://www.funckey.co.uk
Great to see you all and thanks again.

Mashup!

So tonight I split the group in two-half did Helen (although a bit scaled for yvonne) and the other half did the Kettlebell bear complex from wednesday-Nice!!

Kettlebear complex.

Tonights 6pm class was all about Kettlebells-normally a bear complex will involve Olympic lifts but instead the work was performed with a Kettlebell and done with one arm then the other
5 Suitcase Deadlitfs
5 Clean and press
5 Overhead squat
5 Push press
5 Front squat

best tonight was Leon with 8 rounds in ten minutes-good work!!

Beatings will continue until morale improves

Last nights wod at the Sidney Walters was Barbara-20 chin up (we subbed jumping chins) 30 pressups, 40 sit ups and 50 squats. This is repeated 5 times with a three minute break in between
Times
Leon 5.23 9.19 6.26 6.23
Paul 4.24 4.25 4.59 5.35 5.47
John 4.46 5.09 6.32 6.40 6.32
Simon 3.43 5.01 6.40 7.20 7.27
James 4.56 5.12 6.41 6.16 6.01
Christine 5.53 5.20 6.33 6.06 6.29

Fastest overall was Paul, fastest single round was Simon with 3.43
Good work gang

Or is it?

Lisbeth Darsh the owner/trainer of Crossfit Watertown http://www.crossfitwatertown.com/ always writes a lucid and well informed website-this piece was written as a counter to the article mentioned in the blog below-see what you think.
http://crossfitwatertown.typepad.com/index/2008/03/crossfit-prepar.html

It's a Cult!

There's a little bit of discussion as to whether what we do and how we do it is a cult-http://themedium.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/in-this-weeks-magazine-gods-workout/
This article is from the NY times-decide for yourself-or have a look at this video from CrossFit North.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pqBNPNcR9c

This mornings WOD

Something to do after the Easter Eggs!

Fgb principle-5mins work and 1 minute rest x3

Press ups

Sit ups

Kettlebell swings

Good mornings

Box jumps

Well done to Leon this morning-he's not encountered the fight gone bad timing system before-good effort!