North Scottsdale CrossFit

Tuesday 033109

Five rounds for time of:
30 Glute-ham sit-ups
25 Back extensions

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Monday 033009

"Nicole"

Complete as many rounds in 20 minutes as you can of:
Run 400 meters
Max rep Pull-ups

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We are now registered with Beyond the Whiteboard a free resource that allows you as an individual member and we as a community to better track our progress towards our goals.  It will allow you to track your progress, instantly see what your output was the last time we assigned a WOD, and more. 

Do this:

Add Members: Have your members: 

1. sign-up at beyondthewhiteboard.com and sign-in (they can edit their Profile to add a Profile Picture),
2. click "view a list of gyms",
3. click "North Scottsdale CrossFit",
4. click "Join North Scottsdale CrossFit". That's it for them.
5. Then I will go to the "admin" page, click "Membership Requests", and click "accept" for all the members you would like to accept.

Once you are registered as an entity on BTWB and affiliated with NSCF, you can post your results each day this way:

login, click "post"(upper right navigation), and enter your results.  If you scaled the workout, you can put in substitution exercises, adjust weights, and adjust reps. Then  click "Finished".

That's it!  Let's see if we can make good use of this tool!

Saturday 032809

"Spirit Away"

3-5 rounds for time:
15 Overhead Squats
25 Burpees
20 Situps - 10lbs
10 Power Snatch

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Coaches notes: For Power Snatch and OHS: Men use 115lbs, Women use 80lbs, Intermediate 95/65lbs, modify further as needed, Beginners do 3 rounds.

From Crossfit Regina

Everyone did 3 rounds on this and it was a great workout!

 

Jenna from Seattle goes overhead

 

The beginning:  Sean from Seattle and Mike are overhead with 95#.

 

 

The messy end

Friday 032709

10 rounds for time of:
10 Pull-ups
10 Ring dips

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Thursday 032609

Four rounds, each for time of:
800 meter run

Rest as needed between efforts.

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"The Chief" They all fall down 032409 from North Scottsdale Crossfit on Vimeo.

Next T-shirt design?

 

 

But what should we put on the back?   A saying?  A quote?  How about any of these:

By Greg Glassman, Founder of Crossfit:

"If you cannot deadlift you are injured but asymptomatic."

"Performance is directly correlated with intensity. Intensity is directly correlated with discomfort."

"Burn on the pyre of ego." (on the perils of failing to regulate intensity)

"If you don't get the ABCs we don't jump into English Lit."

"Hiding from your weaknesses is a recipe for incapacity and error."

"We should call them Bagelarians." (on vegetarians)

"Triathletes are sorely lacking in strength, speed, power, flexibility, accuracy, agility, and coordination, but they've sure got a lock on malnutrition."

"The cost of regular extended aerobic training is decreased speed, power, and strength."

"Stick to the basics and when you feel you've mastered them it's time to start all over again, begin anew - again with the basics - this time paying closer attention."

"Squat, jump, climb, throw, lift."

"No, it doesn't ever get any easier. You wouldn't want it to either."

"Blur the distinction between strength training and metabolic conditioning for the simple reason that nature's challenges are typically blind to the distinction."

"Farther, longer is not fitter, is not healthier."

"For many of our people fitness training has become their sport--a sport where the aims are simply to become as fit as possible."

"The cost of regular extended aerobic training is decreased speed, power, and strength."

"The notion that holding a heart rate of 180 bpm for twenty minutes on a bike is good cardio whereas holding 180 bpm for twenty minutes in a circuit of weightlifting is of lesser cardiovascular value is widespread yet ludicrous."

"Just because you're 250 pounds doesn't excuse or exempt you from needing 25 pull-ups."

"Be impressed by intensity, not volume."

"If you can brag about either a low 4's mile or a high 4's bench press you could also be a lot fitter." (No one has both.)

"The magic is in the movement, the art is in the programming, the science is in the explanation, and the fun is in the community."

"Work capacity is to fitness what location is to real estate."

Ladies and Gentlemen:  Greg Glassman

 

For slightly more edge, we could use a Mark Rippetoe quote:

"Poor form in the gym is caused by insufficient yelling".

"Most of the problems with the bodies and minds of the folks occupying the current culture involve an unwillingness to do anything hard, or anything that they'd rather not do. I applaud your resolve, and I welcome you to the community of people who have decided that EASY will no longer suffice".

There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level of central nervous system activity, improved balance and coordination, skeletal loading and bone density enhancement, muscular stimulation and growth, connective tissue stress and strength, psychological demand and toughness, and overall systemic conditioning than the correctly performed full squat.

Anyone who says that full squats are "bad for the knees" has, with that statement, demonstrated conclusively that they are not entitled to an opinion about the matter. People who know nothing about a topic, especially a very technical one that requires specific training, knowledge, and experience, are not due an opinion about that topic and are better served by being quiet when it is asked about or discussed. For example, when brain surgery, or string theory, or the NFL draft, or women's dress sizes, or white wine is being discussed, I remain quiet, odd though that may seem. But seldom is this the case when orthopedic surgeons, athletic trainers, physical therapists, or nurses are asked about full squats.

Absolutely not. Never -- and I mean NEVER -- try anything that someone in authority, like Me, has not specifically approved in advance. This is not allowed, and is specifically prohibited, because if you do this irresponsible thing -- this Trying Things For Yourself -- you might learn on your own, and again, this is PROHIBITED.

Let me ask you a question: Are you from North Korea?

And folks, for weight-gaining purposes, "eating clean" is not a useful concept. Big Macs are

The bulk/cut approach holds that you can either add muscle or lose bodyfat, and that all training should be concerned with one or the other. This assumes that aesthetics is the criterion by which progress is measured, that pictures therefore tell the story, and that picture magazines can be the arbiters of success. This type of thinking completely ignores the performance aspects of training, and performance is much more easily and rapidly influenced. Rapid, quantifiable progress keeps motivation high, much higher than waiting for a six-pack that may or may not show up.

Muscles don’t get leaner—you do.

There is no such thing as “firming and toning.” There is only stronger and weaker.

You must wear socks or workout pants on the Dead Lifts. We don't want your DNA on the barbell.

Does a bigger motor slow the car down? No. But a bunch of junk in the trunk does.

I'm not interested in what's been done in the past. I'm interested in what should be done.

The interesting thing is that everybody really already knows this, because there are few examples in life that don’t follow the basic rules of the universe, the ones that dictate the behavior of everything. One of the most basic of those rules is that, with the exception of the occasional lottery winner, you pretty much get out of an effort what you put into it. We’re all quite familiar with this reality, although we are often willing to believe people who tell us otherwise, about exercise and about life. The sooner everybody—both halves of the population—accepts the fact that effective exercise is more like training for athletics and less like lying around on the floor, more about performance and less about appearance, the sooner it will be understood that women really don’t need their own figure salon.

Any idiot can get on a treadmill and watch TV and then take great pride in the fact they've "exercised".

Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general.

Go home and tell Mom that you're a man now.

If lifting heavy weights for partial [squats] were of any benefit for sports, Gold's Gym would be fielding the majority of the 2008 Olympic team.

Ladies and Gentlemen: Mark Rippetoe (L)

Any other ideas?

Wednesday 032509

No Friday 9am class on 3/27

Front Squat

3-3-3-3-3

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Full house for "The Chief" on Tuesday.  Two shifts, and the second shift was FULL.

Chris reps our first t-shirt.  Pretty basic.  Consider this a scaled effort.  We'll continue to improve.

Tuesday 032409

"The Chief"

Max rounds in 3 minutes of:
135 pound Power cleans, 3 reps
6 Push-ups
9 Squats

Rest 1 minute. Repeat for a total of 5 cycles.

Post rounds completed for each of the 5 cycles.

Crossfit Fire's take on nutrition

Ignore everybody

What is strength?Iron by Henry Rollins

Even Gawker wants you to deadlift

Starting Strength the movie

 

Ladies at work

Monday 032309

"Lynne"

Five rounds for max reps of:
Body weight bench press
Pull-ups

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Want to thank Sean and Jenna from Seattle for stopping by while they are in town for vacation (nothing like hitting those CF WOD's during your time off.  At least there is lots of downtime by the pool!) Also, Gina, thanks for saying hello and working "Lynne" with us. 

Saturday 032109

Class will start at 10am today!!

For time:
225 pound Deadlift, 21 reps
Run 800 meters
225 pound Deadlift, 15 reps
Run 800 meters
225 pound Deadlift, 9 reps
Run 800 meters

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Extra Credit after "Karen" on Friday.  Thanks to Crossfit Seattle for the idea.

Chris Monkey smash coconut from North Scottsdale Crossfit on Vimeo.
Kevin monkey smash coconut from North Scottsdale Crossfit on Vimeo.

Friday 032009

"Karen"

150 Wallballs for time

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