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WOD 6 December (AM)

by Chris December 6, 2011 CrossFit London workouts

Strength: back squat 3 @ 70%, 3 @80%, 3 @ 90% Metcon: 3 min AMRAP of 3 power cleans (70/45), 6 push ups, 9 ring dips. Rest 1 min, repeat 6 times. I tried this metcon out on the weekend and it’s the dips that really punish you on this work out, especially straight after [...]

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WOD 1 Nov: Dips and other wonderful things

by Chris November 1, 2011 CrossFit London workouts
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Strength: Dips 5-5-5-5-5 or bodyweight dips or negative dips/ring dip combo Skill: Power clean practice Metcon: 15-12-9-6-3 of power cleans and bar facing burpees FYI: Happy CrossFit birthday to me… first class was Nov 2nd last year, despite ageing horribly in the past twelve months from 5.20 alarms it’s been a tip top year. Big thanks [...]

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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 19 July: Double Under Success x 3

by Chris July 20, 2011 CrossFit London workouts
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Tuesday session: Mobility: arm circles, scapular wall slides Skill Warm Up: double under form, deadlift form, push/split jerk form Strength: push/split jerk 5-5-5+ Metcon: 10 minute AMRAP of 10 deadlifts and 10 double unders Finisher: static ring hold competition. Well done to Jenny, Helen and Patricia who all conquered double under technique and then went [...]

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WOD 30 June: With the Front Squat in Mind

by Chris July 1, 2011 CrossFit London workouts
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After heading back from a wunderbar weekend in Berlin it has been a busy ol’ week so finally made it back to the blog. Rather than recap Tuesday, I’ll send you to Sally’s blog to read about the team workout, which I also joined in on. Well done Eric… we rocked! The Thursday session went [...]

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Dome and Dish: cleans, pulls, jerks and kips

by Andrew May 21, 2011 CrossFit London workouts
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Once again, the friday class explored the theology regarding Domes and Dishes, today focusing on conversion. ( sorry, no more explanation than that on-line!) We also found time to do some kipping practise, find out our 1 rep max push jerk , and then rattled out a tight little couplet of  power cleans and Pull [...]

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WOD 6 May: Grace: 30 Clean and Jerks

by Andrew May 6, 2011 CrossFit London workouts
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An interesting evening: we started off with : “Woodland Fun”. A mix of wheelbarows, back to back squats and leap frog , prompting our Kate to exclaim ” It’s surprising how attendance at a catholic convent  school for girls doesn’t prepare you for leaping in the air with your legs apart – over boys” Who [...]

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Next Wednesday’s CrossFit Games Open WOD

by Andrew April 7, 2011 CrossFit London workouts
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Next Wednesday’s evening WOD will be this week’s Games WOD  to give you a chance to try it. Have a read of the WOD information below, and visit the Games site for an overview of the movement standard Complete as many rounds and reps as possible in 5 minutes of: Squat clean (75kg for men/ [...]

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Does Crossfit make women bulky?

by Kate March 14, 2011 Articles
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It had to come up sometime… It seems that the great “Does Crossfit Makes Women Bulky?” debate has circled like a vulture and finally landed in Gales Gardens. The mere mention of it on Facebook started a long thread of comments, so I thought it would be good to have the debate here for all [...]

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WOD 12 March. “Friday night”

by Andrew March 12, 2011 CrossFit London workouts

Presenting, “Friday Night” at Crossfit London UK. A roller-coaster of a film, featuring you  pushing, pressing swinging and dipping. Awesome. Indian club skills, an alternating tabata of squats and push ups,  Press strength, push jerk progrssions and practise, ending in a cute: Heavy Kettlebell swings/ring dips 21/15/9

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WOD 2 March: Badger Preparation

by Andrew March 3, 2011 CrossFit London workouts
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The crossfit.com wod, Badger, is a hero workout. 3 rounds of 30 X 40kg squat cleans 30 Pull ups 800m run It takes most people 30 to 45 minutes to complete. Whilst there is a temptation to throw this workout at the Crossfit London crew out of the blue, we thought we would have a [...]

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