‘Argh, they’re trying to kill me. By Fran’. Any workout with death in the name sounds pretty intimidating but it’s just away of describing an increasing rep scheme with a time limit. Geoff, one of our newest members, completed this workout with a PVC pipe so don’t let a scary sounding name put you off. [...]
Archive | June, 2011
16th June 2011
Tonight – Some technique work to start with then,a little couplet based around the CrossFit benchmark Elizabeth
15th June 2011
After a long warmup focusing on movement quality we spent the first half of tonight’s sessions working up to a maximum turkish getup. This was followed by a nice little triplet combining a front squats, box jumps and pressups
14th June 2011
After a warm up designed to get everyone’s glutes and hamstrings firing on all cylinders we worked on heavy push press. This was followed by 3 short workouts with 3 minutes rest between each. Following on from yesterday’s list of the benefits of strength training, here’s a good article from the Guardian on why women [...]
13th June 2011
Another busy Monday saw Personal Bests across the board as we worked on backsquats. So why do we get you to lift big weights and aim for PBs? Here are some of the benefits of strength training… Increased muscular strength Increased strength of tendons and ligaments Increased bone density Potentially improves flexibility (range of motion [...]
11th June 2011
Thanks for your patience with the delay to this post; we enjoyed a lovely break in Anglesey. Saturday morning saw us finding a one rep max on overhead squats and then combining one-arm dumbbell snatches and kettlebell swings into an intense couplet. Coincidentally our current Foundations class were also tackling dumbbell snatches and kettlebell swings [...]
10th June 2011
what goes up-down, up-down, down-up, up-down, backwards-forwards? tonight’s workout, that’s what. Fight gone bad is a great workout but there is that few seconds transition between movements where people are not working, and then there is the whole motivation to get going that seems to disappear half way through the second round… So tonight we [...]
8th June 2011
We dedicated the majority of tonight’s session to skill practice. For those with a solid overhead squat there was some snatch technique work focused on reaching full extension and speed under the bar. Otherwise we worked on developing the overhead squat. After all this we finished with a little challenge on the rower. We also [...]
