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Health screening, blood tests – and a nice, sensible cardie

by Kate January 20, 2012 Articles
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As part of my New Year fresh start, I decided to get a bunch of health checks done. I’ve been doing this Crossfit/Zone/supplementing thing for some time now, so I was hoping for good results. If you’re interested, this is the procedure: Go to Medichecks.com (I’m sure others are available, but I used these guys) [...]

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Foot position when squatting

by Chris July 27, 2011 Articles
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How should your feet be placed for the squat? Probably before you got to CrossFit you’d keep them fairly close and toes forward. Then we got you to place them shoulder width apart and turn the toes out. However, this is now in question, thanks to a few videos posted to www.mobilitywod.com. CrossFit mobility man, [...]

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WOD 14 July: Holy Cramp!

by Chris July 14, 2011 CrossFit London workouts
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Thursday morning: Mobility: dislocations, pec mobilisation drill, overhead squats Strength: overhead squat 5-5-5+ Skill: unilateral strength work – lunge variations Finisher: hamstring strength test I wanted to spend some time working on the unilateral strength of the athletes today. The lunge allows us to address bilateral strength issues – it is often the case that we [...]

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Crossfit London 5K Experiment:

by stretch June 26, 2011 POSE Running

Experiment review.  On the 12 of August we took the decision to suspend this experiment. We discovered that the injury rate ( among those who reported) was too high. Some nasty shin splints and plantar fasciitis. Many reasons were suggested, but as one of Crossfit london’s sport injury massage team,  i felt the reasons was to [...]

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CFE: Wheels of a Race Car

by stretch June 26, 2011 POSE Running

The wheels of a race car need to run straight and true for maximum performance and to prevent damage to the car.   This statement holds true for runners and their wheels.  Often we see runners who over-pronate (landing on the outside of the foot and having the ankle roll in) and/or land with the foot [...]

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CFE: 18 June 2011 Supercompensation

by stretch June 19, 2011 CrossFit London workouts

Mobility: Injury prevention: looking at shin splints and how to prevent and deal with them.  For more information see the mobilitywod.com (episode_270365) POSE Skills and Drills We warmed-up with a number of POSE running drills in preparation for the W.O.D to come W.O.D Todays W.O.D aimed to test the theory of “supercompensation.”  What is “supercompensation” and what [...]

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