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Green Crossfit

by Kate November 29, 2011 Articles

Crossfit London has the most effective, most rewarding and most fun fitness protocols available anywhere. It is also very green and sustainable.

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Women’s class 9 May: “Doing the common…

by Kate May 9, 2011 CrossFit London workouts
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…uncommonly well” That’s Greg Glassman’s definition of virtuosity. You can read the full inspiring article here, but to summarise – it means that in order to do/teach Crossfit well, we should insist on the best possible form in the fundamental moves. With this in mind, the Women’s class was launched tonight. Elle (on her birthday, [...]

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Women’s classes

by Kate April 30, 2011 Articles
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If you’re new and the thought of walking into a regular Crossfit London class makes you weepy… or you’re fine with classes and have been to few, but still don’t know a push jerk from a Sumo wrestler… or you’ve been to more and still can’t snatch to save a puppy’s life…. and you’re a [...]

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WOD 5 Jan: Cleans and some fun

by Andrew January 5, 2011 CrossFit London workouts
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Crossfit London UK  began its Wednesday evening with  the opportunity to run through some basic clean drills: refreshers are always welcome as indeed was the opportunity to practice 5 sets of 3 squat cleans. Some went heavy, with the incredible Efe making 80kg waft through the air like a feather, whilst others reduced the weight [...]

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WOD 30 July: The Filthy Fifty

by Andrew July 30, 2010 CrossFit London workouts

The filthy 50 50 Box jump, 24 inch box 50 Jumping pull-ups 50 Kettlebell swings, 1 pood Walking Lunge, 50 steps 50 Knees to elbows 50 Push press, 45 pounds 50 Back extensions 50 Wall ball shots, 20 pound ball 50 Burpees 50 Double unders Fabulous. check here to see how other crossfitters did. if [...]

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WOD 25 July: Kelly is awful

by Andrew July 28, 2010 CrossFit London workouts

There is something about Kelly 400m 30 box jumps 30 wall bags (the CrossFit London 10kg sandbag sub) x5 ( yes!! Bloody 5 times through) That is simply wrong. The gym was full of suffering, especially with the hot humid weather. More fab photos on the CrossFit London Flickr pages, here.

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Vibram Five Fingers: The almost barefoot truth

by Andrew July 25, 2010 Articles

The fact that I have for some time worn Vibram Five Fingers occasionally, and that I’m one of the few genuine barefoot runners in London means, apparently, that I ought to have  a “position” on Vibrams. For what they are worth, here are my personal Vibrams views. They are not universally cool (yet) and as [...]

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WOD 9 July 10: Crossfit warm up, followed by Jason

by Andrew July 9, 2010 CrossFit London workouts

Well it was the start of the back to Crossfit basics campaign 3 rounds of the official Crossfit warm up 30 sec Samson stretch 10-15 overhead squats 10-15 sit ups 10-15 back extensions 10-15 pull ups 10 to 15 dips followed by Jason (a Hero Workout) in honour of S01 (SEAL) Jason Dale Lewis, who [...]

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WOD 26 June: A Colin ‘special’

by Andrew June 26, 2010 CrossFit London workouts

Two packed classes were treated to a “Colin special” this morning of a warm up of: push up sit up air squat Followed by the Burgner warm up…an olympic lifting set of developmental drills followed by a cute little WOD of: 5 rounds for time 10 dips 20 sit jups 30 air squats Followed by [...]

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Colin is back: Saturdays will be arresting!

by Andrew June 21, 2010 Articles

For those Crossfit London UK historians out there, the name Colin Menniss will be  a real blast from the past. One of the original  Crossfit London UK i-course trainers, Colin has been developing his training and coaching ability with Crossfit London since, gosh, 2006 when he attended the  Crossfit London kettlebell Masterclass. Not that Colin [...]

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WOD 27 April… the PB muddle

by Andrew April 28, 2010 CrossFit London workouts

There were a lot of PB’s tonight, in amoung the muddle… now let me see if i can get this right….. The warm up was 3 to 4 sets of 10 reps of  ring dips that escalated in difficulty intermingled with overhead squat and snatch balance practise. Then it was heavy thrusters and heavy pull [...]

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