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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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Coaching: Safety in Crossfit

by Andrew June 14, 2011 Articles

The issue of safety is always at the centre  of what we do both at Crossfit London classes and at the Coaching Academy. Below is an interesting extract from an email written a while ago, discussing box jumpsafety. The principles are probably good for most activities: The combination of factors  to ensure a  safe box jump [...]

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CFE: 21-May-2011 Midline Stability

by stretch May 22, 2011 CrossFit London workouts

Midline stability! It’s an important factor for all movement, not just running.  So what exactly is midline stability? How do we create awareness? How can we improve it? After some Kelly Starrett mobilitywod ankle and hip mobilization and a number of POSE running drills, the participants where ready for todays CFE session. The objective was [...]

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CrossFit Endurance WOD: 14 May

by stretch May 14, 2011 CrossFit London workouts

Today’s CFE London session challenged London Crossfitters to complete a WOD of 6x 200m intervals on the 3minutes (run 200m, rest the remainder of the 3minutes, then repeat…hard and fast). After a dynamic warm-up and number of POSE running drills the athletes were eager to deliver their best 85-90% effort. These intervals are designed to [...]

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The CrossFit London 100 Days of Burpees Daily Tracker [Day 100]

by Steven May 8, 2011 Articles
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Day 100: It’s done. Over. Finished! There was an amazing atmosphere in the gym this afternoon as the last remaining 100 day’ers* ceremonially completed their final 100 burpees. We were joined by the incredibly sporting, Lauri, Simon, Colm, Cian and Phil for an all-out thrash against the clock. I’m not quite sure how to sum up [...]

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How to cook better steak [MEAT]

by Steven May 2, 2011 Articles
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I think it has been established previously that I am rather partial to meat. And like most other carnivores, steak sits somewhere near the top of my most wanted list. Thing is, I’ve never really been very good at cooking it. Almost irrespective of the quality of the meat, whether it turns out well or not seems [...]

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