Archive for September, 2012

Wednesday 20120919 Open Workout

Posted: September 18, 2012 by totactfit01 in Uncategorized

Strength:

Every Minute On the Minute for  9Min: 2 reps Bench Press
Min 1-3 = 85-87% of 1RM
Min 4-6 = 90-92%
Min 7-9 = 95%

Post weight used in last three sets to comments/www.logwod.com

Team up with a partner to ensure you have a spotter.  Plus, having a partner will ensure you keep the body moving and blood flowing during your rest time.  Nothing worse than cooling too far down in between sets!

WOD:

12min AMRAP:
10 Ground To Overhead: (45/25)
10 Barbell Push ups
10 Burpee 2 on top of 45# Plate

Post time to comments/www.logwod.com

The Ground to Overhead will be with either a 45# or 25# plate.  The movement standard will be any part of the bumper plate to touch the ground at the bottom and at the top you must show full extension of the knees, hips, shoulders, and arms.

Barbell Push ups are: Putting a bar on the ground for push ups. Standards still apply, chest down to bar and full extension at the top.

Video courtesy of Chikara CrossFit.  For Plate Jumping Burpess, start with a normal burpee (chest and things MUST touch the ground), but you will do your jump onto a 45# plate.

Cash Out:

Max Time:
Holding 90° Barbell Push up

So proud of these girls. Leah and Sarah tied for fourth place a Fit2Fight’s ThrowDown last weekend.

 I call Leah “Quiet Storm”.  She’s not very vocal in class, but her intensity and level of work speaks volumes.  Not only is Leah getting stronger and more proficient every day, she has a great mind for strategy.  She didn’t kill herself in the first WOD to ensure she had the gas to make it through the rest of the day.  Consistency wins every time! 

It’s also great seeing Sarah back in the TactFit area.  Girl does work!  She has a great mix of power and technique that make her dangerous in any WOD.  Look out girls!

Tuesday 20120918 Open Workout

Posted: September 17, 2012 by totactfit01 in Uncategorized

Skill:

3 Rounds:

5 Ring Dive Bomber Pushups

Video courtesy of Grant Lofthouse.  Set feet on plates and rings low enough to be even with plates

30 sec L-sit from Pull-up bar (see pic)

Pic courtesy of CrossFit Local

8-10 Situp-Squats

(just what it sounds like, start with legs bent, feet on the ground, do a sit up and at the top of the sit up, keep coming up until you are at the bottom of a squat.  Stand all the way up, then go back down in a squat, but continue down to the ground, back into a sit up)

WOD:

“Sweating on the Green”
4 Rounds For Time:
100m Waiter Carry (25/10)
100m Bumper Carry (25/10) – like a farmer’s carry but you will only hold the plate with your fingers
20m Sledge Slamball (20/12)

Video courtesy of CrossFit Team USA.  This is the basic concept of the waiter carry, but instead of a dumbbell, you will hold either a 25 or 10# plate overhead.

For the Waiter Carry and Bumper Carry, you will walk to the 10oM turnaround point (it’s 50M away, go figure) and then walk back.

For the Sledge Slamball, you will take a slam ball, line it up on the straight edge of one of the mats.  You will hit it with the sledge hammer just like a chip shot in golf, or watch at the 4:30 mark of the video below (courtesy of CrossFit HQ), for the first part of the Double Banger WOD from the CrossFit Games this year.  You could either use a lot of hip and hit it further, or use more arms and do little fast shots.  Find what works best and is most efficient.  After you watch the technique, watch the rest of the vid to watch Omaha’s own Kyle Kasperbauer win not only this heat, but the event.

You will hit the slam ball down a total of 5 and a half mat lengths (going on the long edge) and 5 and a half back for the full 20M.

Post time to comments/www.logwod.com

Cash Out:

Max Rep: Strict HandStand Push Ups (HSPU)

Rest 2min

Max Rep: Kipping HSPU

Ladies and gentleman, you are looking at the 2024 CrossFit Games champ! 🙂  Ava with some pretty darn good technique on a kipping HandStand Push Up.  She had a blast watching the ThrowDown at Fit2Fight this past weekend.  Local competitions are a great way to enjoy the community aspect of CrossFit and push yourself further than you thought you could.  When we have one out here, I would love to see as many folks there as possible.  More info on that to come….

Monday 20120917 Open Workout

Posted: September 16, 2012 by totactfit01 in Uncategorized

Strength/Skill:

Snatch Pull:
6 sets of 3 reps @ 65% of Snatch 1RM
Sets start every 2 minutes

Post weight to comments/www.logwod.com

Video courtesy of FSU Strength (can’t believe a Big 10 guy like me is putting an ACC video out, but…).  Main points to remember here is go through the same motions as you do in a snatch up to and including the high scarecrow pull.  Working this skill will make you more explosive coming off the contact point in either a power or full snatch.  The more explosive you are, the higher you’ll move heavier loads, which means you’ll have more room to get under the bar, which will mean higher PRs.

WOD:

For Time:
30 Reps (not rounds) of the Bear Complex (185/115)

Post time to comments/www.logwod.com

To review, one rep of the Bear Complex is…

-1 power clean (PC)

– 1 front squat (FS)

– 1 push press (PP)

– 1 back squat (BS)

– 1 back push press (BPP)

Feel free to combine the FS and PP into a thruster.  Same with the BS and BPP

Cash Out:

Couch Stretch – 2 minutes per side

Roll out upper back

Yup, probably going to have to run for my life from Vashon and Kyle for posting this.  Nothing wrong with a couple dudes sharing an ice bath 🙂

I do want to take this time to congratulate everyone who made it down to Fit2Fight and did the ThrowDown.  I’m so proud of all of you, and can’t wait to see how you all do at the next Comp!!

Saturday 20120915 Throwdown at Fit2Fight

Posted: September 14, 2012 by totactfit01 in Uncategorized

Hope we have a big showing over at the Throwdown at Fit2Fight!

If you can’t make it out there, we will have Open Gym at 0900 with a couple of our coaches present, with a suprise WOD waiting for you!!!

Either way, get some blood flowing this weekend!

Picture Courtesy of CrossFit 98110.  I couldn’t have said it better myself

Friday 20120914 Open Workout

Posted: September 13, 2012 by totactfit01 in Uncategorized

MAKE SURE YOU ARE UP AT FIT2FIGHT NO LATER THAN 0730 THIS SATURDAY FOR THE THROWDOWN!  LET’S HAVE SOME FUN!

Skill:

3 Rounds:
5 reps of  10 second Hollow body Pushup Hold, rolling into somersault
10 reps of Strict Chest2Bar Chin ups
3 reps of Tripod/Headstand into Handstand

Videos courtesy of Gymnastics WOD.  In this video, Carl describes the idea head position to maintain a handstand where you can get a visual cue to maintain balance and direction, without compromising the neutral head and neck positions.

In this video, Carl describes the idea head position to hold a head stand where the neck is aligned with the body as a system.  Once you are comfortable with your head position in this tripod/head stand hold in a globally flexed position, then it becomes easier to transition to neutral and globally extended positions that you find in straight-body headstands and hand stands.

WOD:

3 Rounds:
3min Max Distance Row (m)
*Rest 2min between attempts

Post highest distance covered in one attempt to comments/www.logwod.com

Cash Out:

10 Perfect Unbroken Wall Balls (20/14)

Pic courtesy of CrossFit Games 2012.  Been wanting to watch the Games on ESPN2 but not sure of when?  Click on the pic for the schedule.

Thursday 20120913 Open Workout

Posted: September 12, 2012 by totactfit01 in Uncategorized

Skill:

3 Attempts (for distance) of Triple Jump

Video courtesy of USATFweb.  Few things have to happen for the triple jump…

 Running start, 10-15m.

The Jump itself is broken down into 3 phases.
1)The first phase requires the athlete to jump off one foot.
2)The second is to land on the same foot and jump again.
3)The third time you’ll land on the other foot and jump into the pit.
*Note: If your stronger foot is your left, then go right, right, left. If it’s the right foot, then go left, left, right. Try starting with both legs though.*
Athletes will land with both feet seeing as we do not have a giant sand pit (make that crash pad).
 Spend 5-10min working it slowly and then up to speed for the attempts.

Post longest jump to comments/www.logwod.com

WOD:

“King Kong”
3RFT:
1 DL (455/300)
2 Muscle Up
3 Squat Clean (250/175)
4 HSPU

Post time to comments/www.logwod.com

Don’t let the weights above stop you from coming.  There are scaling options.  What are they?  Guess you’ll have to show up.

Video courtesy of CrossFit HQ.  2-time Games Champ, RIch Froning doing King Kong back in 2011 after competing as part of CrossFit Faith’s Affiliate Cup Team in the South East Regionals.  Can you keep up?

Cash Out:

Max Time:
HandStand Hold

then

3 rounds 10 good mornings (empty bar)

Video courtesy of 13Stripes CrossFit.  For those competing this Saturday and feeling a bit nervous.  Watch this.  Listen to the message.  Don’t critique the athletes featured’s technique.  Rather, see their heart to go on.  CAN!

Wednesday 20120912 Open Workout

Posted: September 11, 2012 by totactfit01 in Uncategorized
IF YOU ARE PLANNING ON ATTENDING THE THROWDOWN THIS WEEKEND AT FIT2FIGHT PLEASE GO TO THE EVENTS PAGE ON THEIR FACEBOOK SITE (located here http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/350214658391350/)  IF YOU DON’T HAVE A FACEBOOK ACCOUNT EMAIL  EITHER COACH D OR THE TOTF GMAIL ACCOUNT BY COB WEDNESDAY.  I WANT TO GET THE LIST TO NICK SCOTT NO LATER THAN THURSDAY.  DON’T FORGET, BRING $5 WITH YOU!  FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT SEEN THE EVENT BRIEF, GO HERE http://vimeo.com/48663803

TOTF Community Service Piece

10 min AMRAP:

Fix Mats/ Clean Equipment*

This is a community builder day.  As our athletes, you are part of our CF TOTF family.  As such, we’d like you to take ownership of the area that produces such great moments for you.  Think of all the buckets of blood sweat and tears you’ve poured in our humble little area….and help us clean them up. 🙂

* The way we will break it up is the 0600 class will cover spraying down and wiping off the bars, Pull Up rig and power racks.  The 1730 class will handle pounding the mats back in place.  This will be followed by….

WOD:

For Time:
1000 Air Squats
cut off = 35 minutes

Post time to comments/www.logwod.com

Video courtesy of CrossFit HQ

The Air Squat is one of the basic fundamental movements of CrossFit.  It seems so simple, but there are certain things you must remember for a safe, effective, proper Air Squat

 -Maintain Good Lumbar Curve

-Keep the weight in the heels

 -At the bottom, the crease of the hip must go below the knee (unless you have mobility issues)

 -Keep your torso vertical, raise arms to assist (as well as give balance)

 -Knees track out over the knees (don’t let them cave in)

-Keep a neutral gaze

 -Avoid the dreaded butt wink by maintaining hip control through the whole movement instead of letting yourself collapse at the bottom

-At the top, fully open hips.  Dont have an immature squat

Cash Out:

Tabata Roll out.  Do 2 rounds of 20 sec on 10 sec rest of :
Quads

Glutes

Hamtrings

Calves

Some of our CF TOTF crew at the MudZilla event last Saturday.  Way to rep TactFit out there guys!

Tuesday 20120911 Open Workout

Posted: September 10, 2012 by totactfit01 in Uncategorized

In honor of those who gave their life 11 years ago responding to the most devastating attack on American soil in our country’s history, we will be doing a special Hero WOD…..

WOD:

“343”

In Honor of all 343 first responders who died selflessly responding to the attack on 9/11

For Time:

100 Deadlifts 145/115
100 Power Cleans 95/65
100 Ground to Overhead 65/35
43 Burpees

Post time to comments/www.logwod.com 

Think you’re a badass.  We got nothing on Fire captain John Berg of CALFIRE/San Mateo Country
EI8
Dude did the whole thing in full FireFighter gear!

In honor of the fallen, let’s fill these classes today!

Let’s Roll!!

ARE YOU READY FOR THE THROWDOWN AT FIT2FIGHT THIS SATURDAY?  BE READY!  EVENT STARTS AT 8:15AM.  TALK WITH ONE OF OUR COACHES IF YOU WANT TO CARPOOL!

Monday 20120910 Open Workout

Posted: September 9, 2012 by totactfit01 in Uncategorized

Strength:

Overhead Squat:

Pic courtesy of CrossFit Ethos.  CrossFit HQ’s Nicole Gordon hitting OHS.

Let’s take this back to the basics and remember our set up and execution points…

SETUP:

• Stance = shoulder width, toes slightly pointed outward

• Full extension at hips and knees (standing up straight)

• Bar held overhead, in the frontal plane, with a wide grip (snatch grip)

• Active shoulders (shrug and have arm pits pointing forward)

• Elbows locked (THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE MOVEMENT!)

EXECUTION:

• Weight on heels

• Lumbar curve maintained

• Chest up

• Maintain constant upward pressure on the bar, and active shoulders, to support the load (imagine you’re pressing the bar up the whole time)

• Bar remains in the frontal plane or slightly behind (if bar goes forward, gravity works and you’ll lose it)

• Butt travels back and down (in case you missed that, BUTT TRAVELS BACK AND DOWN)

• Bottom of squat is below parallel (hip crease is below the top of the kneecap)

• Knees track parallel to feet (knees should not cave in)

• Head position is neutral (don’t look up or down)

• Return to full extension at the hips and knees to complete the move (rep doesn’t end until you are standing fully upright)

5 reps @ 75%   of 1RM

3 reps @ 85%

1+ @ 95%

Remember, 1+ means do one rep, then go until you can’t go!

Post reps completed in last set to comments/www.logwod.com  Also, list weight used to logwod comments and the comments section here

WOD:

“Cindy”
AMRAP 20min:
5 Pull-ups
10 Push ups
15 Squats

Post successful full rounds to comments/www.logwod.com   Post any partial rounds to comments section on logwod and comments here as well.

Video courtesy of CrossFit Park City.  With a low rep count per round, this might be the perfect time to implement Butterfly Pull Ups, if you have them.  Maybe take a few minutes and go through the drill Chris Spealler demonstrates here.

Cash Out:

2X:
Max Rep Ring Dip
Rest 60 sec between attempts

Don’t forget, this coming Saturday morning, Fit2Fight is holding a Throw Down, and we’re all invited!  They are located at 819 S. 7th St.  Click on the picture  for directions.  Cost is just $5! Doesn’t matter what level of fitness you are at.  This is one of the things CrossFit is made for.  Being ready to perform any sport, even the sport of Fitness!  Plus, let’s show the other local affiliates the great community we have here at TOTF!
Lastly, to let you in on a little secret,  we are in the working phases of hosting a Team-based Throwdown of our own in a month or so.  Come get a taste of how these things go before we have one out here!
CAN!

Saturday 20120908 Kettle Bell Seminar

Posted: September 7, 2012 by totactfit01 in Uncategorized

Kettle Bell Seminar

Do you want to improve your Kettle Bell Skills?  Do you want to know the best way to perform KB movements?

Then come get some knowledge from Coach John “JP” Palumbo and improve your skill set!  Seminar starts at 0900.  Will go for 1-2 hours.  Do it!