A great night at CFT tonight. We hit a tabata mash up of Hang Power Cleans and Push Jerks borrowed from CrossFit Park City followed by weighted pull ups and some tyre flip fun to finish. Everyone excelled but the night belong to Mike who got some strict deadhang pull ups. Just a few weeks [...]
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A great video from CrossFit Fire showing athletes at all levels of fitness and the wide variety of disciplines that combine to make CrossFit. Just a word of warning – the soundtrack is the explicit version of the Black Eyed Peas – Hey Mama. It rocks but maybe not one to have the sound on [...]
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After a heavy deadlift session yesterday we concentrated on skills tonight with technique focused Snatch work followed by a brutal little unilateral dumbell workout.
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CrossFit Tameside now has a snazzy new look with lots more good stuff to boot. We’re sad to say goodbye to the old sliding menu but really chuffed with the modern look and great new features including: an actually useful Archive page quotes and testimonials box in the sidebar a search box that returns proper [...]
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Or in tonight’s case, the barbell. Utilising pretty much every major muscle in the body, the deadlift is a highly functional compound movement. It’s also really fun to pick up heavy stuff! Our athletes had to find a 1 rep max which saw lots of PBs and a new gym record by David. We followed [...]
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We celebrated the Bank Holiday in style with a team workout – Tag Team Angie. Not only are team workouts fun but they’re also a sneaky way of getting everyone to work really hard, mwahahahaha. The CrossFit benchmark workout Angie got a team twist so that one person would be running while the other accumulated [...]
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Just a reminder that the Bank Holiday classes tomorrow will run at 10am and 11am.
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Report: 10 Million Killed Annually By Stepping Out Of Comfort Zones AUGUST 24, 2010 | ISSUE 46•34 WASHINGTON—A new report published this week by the Department of Health and Human Services revealed that more than 10 million Americans are violently killed each year while attempting to break away from their regular everyday routines and try [...]
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A real jam packed session tonight. To start we worked on Split Jerk technique with a little twist , a 60m sprint between sets. This was followed by a short 15 min blast that seemed to hit the spot. 5 Rounds 3 Split Jerk (aim to increase the weight each round) (rest 60 seconds [...]



