Andrew showing off...again.
Andrew Stemler was london’s 1st Crossfit level 2 Certified trainer and has been teaching Crossfit in the capital since 2005.
He is a passionate advocate of Crossfit, but his boundless enthusiasm is moderated by 49 years worth of life experience. ( so, yes, he’s almost 50)
If you put any value on them, he also has (too) many fitness and sports qualifications with bodies that declare themselves to be professional
These include the Register of Exercise Professionals, BWLA (the British Weightlifting Association), the ASA (Amateur Swimming Association), the UKKA (the United Kingdom Kettlebell Association, now no more), UK Athletics, SABA (Schools Amateur Boxing Association), ABA (Amateur Boxing Association) and a wedge of martial arts certificates.
He has a degree in Law and Sociology, a post-grad in Property Management, and, for most of his life, ran an East End Estate Agency.
However in 1997 he gave up a life devoted to cigarettes (a 100 a day habit) and began getting fit. He was so horrified with the low teaching standards that he almost immediately started going to the instructor/teacher training course himself, rather than tolerate the poor quality muddle that instructors paased off as tuition. He spent 3 years as a doorman( bouncer) in London’s East End when he turned 40 as part of his midlife crisis.
He is currently studying sports science
He tends to wear a neck scarf that most people think doesn’t suit him.
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I attended the class tonight (18/02/2010). I started the class thinking I was Gene HUNT from “Life on Mars”. Half way through the class, I begged for mercy, but Sally snarled and shouted, “it’s not supposed to be easy”, and made me carry on.
By the end of the class I was sucking my thumb and crying for my mommy!
HOWEVER BRILLIANT CLASS, YOU MUST GIVE IT A GO
Hmm…this looks like a mighty fine workout to me!
bar system check. 1/2 turn on number 1
11pm sunday… the blank spaces are u tube clips… probably still working trough the system
Steve certainly gave us some food for thought! God I’m so funny!
Any tips for getting functioning hamstrings again? Mine don’t seem to be co-operating!
Ahhh. Kitten picture forthcoming no doubt. Can’t wait. (p.s. Am missing CFL on my enforced sabbatical but hope to be back soon with 20 pull-ups). Ben
Time you invested in a cricket ball Trev…..get that under ya and you’ll feel like a new man
Looking forward to having you back soon, Ben!
Clearly our comment spam filter doesn’t screen for puns…
put helens thumbs to work!!
What a look!
Note to self: don’t get on Rosie’s bad side…
Those jump ropes were really rather good.
Where did you get them?
sounds yummy!
I’m in pain after that!
Kieran – they are the excellently named “Ultra Speed Cable Jump Ropes” from http://www.buyjumpropes.net/
That was a total of 20 people put through fight gone bad in 3 hours,
Well done everyone
Andrew and CF London. Thank you so much for letting me sweat at your box the last two days. You guys rock!
I will make sure to visit when I am in town next. If anybody from CF London is ever in the Boston area title=”CFNE”>’s doors are always open!
WOw ! Congrats Warren ! 213 for me
For the record, I scored 210 (up from 199). First time I’ve not totally hated the SDLHP.
I got to score for Warren, and the guy barely slowed:
Rounds: 123/111/107
WB: 84
SDL: 78
BJ: 68
PP: 56
Row: 55
BEAST!!
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80kg front squat x5
Good WOD, glad I found a good box here in the UK.
great work Los.
Poor Helen she was doing all the work really!!!
Oh that kicked my butt- 204 score. Something to build on I feel x
7:42 as Rx’d , that left me with a headache and the desire to hug a bucket!
At Crossfit Bristol;
8:12 with 26K Thrusters, Green band Pull up
x
Anyone coming to the Hell Bells on thursday is in for a treat! Whoop
The thrusters felt like hell!!!
Great article. Cheers
i think thats the worst photo of me i have ever seen! And i have seen some bad ones!
class was great though. I am aching all over and will be back for some more tonight!
i came, i saw, i was totally conquered! great class on thursday, knew i should have picked up the kb’s sooner.
Looked like a little bit of a kip on the multiples there Andrew……
at my age, are you surprised!
bar system check turns on 14, 13, 6
Get your self a bargin at the UK & Ireland sectional for the Crossfit Games on 20th March. BeaverFit will be selling their GHD’s at a special games price £400 only…..
I’ve got a question about the muscle-up progressions.
Is there an ideal number of reps to do? And should we be splitting them into sets with a defined rest period?
I get the feeling after the progressions that maybe I only did half as many reps as I could have. OTOH, I’ve definitely overtrained my upper arms twice in the past. So, is there a goal?
vary it. see some as 5 x 5 vsessions, others as max attempts, 1.1.1.1.1., but focus on getting the right position
This is the stuff of legend – I need it in my life!