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KIngs of Strength and Core Conditioning

by Colin December 3, 2011 CFL News

Saturday 3rd December 2011 The dead lift has to be king of the strength movements up there with the back squat. I was watching a friend of mine coach one of his boxers through a strength program. Not one dead lift, back squat and shoulder presses performed sitting down.  If you want to build strength [...]

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WOD 18 Aug: CrossFit Total – what’s not to love?

by Chris August 19, 2011 CrossFit London workouts
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Thursday 18 August Mobility: personalised Strength: CrossFit Total – back squat 1RM, overhead press 1RM and deadlift 1RM I’m sure I’ve said it before but I love doing Total – who doesn’t want to know how heavy they can lift? I set the guys off with their own mobility asking: what do you need to [...]

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WOD 4 Aug: Thursday skill: turkish get-up THIS

by Chris August 5, 2011 CrossFit London workouts
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Thursday’s session… Mobility: Samson stretches and scorpions Strength: deadlift 1×5 and weighted chins 2×6-8 Skill: turkish get-ups with dumbells, kettlebells, plates and barbells Finisher: squat clinic – plate squats Didn’t manage to post on Tuesday but catch Sally’s account of the session here. It was dynamic effort on the deadlift and a kettlebell snatch and [...]

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Safety lifting review

by Andrew February 25, 2011 Articles
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Crossfit London is so in favour of heavy lifting, it’s almost a cult trait! Everyone lifts: be it a one rep max, 21 reps of a thruster in Fran or 70 reps of an overhead squat in a shocker work out like Nancy. It’s part of life, here. Bodyweight is great, and an equal part [...]

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WOD 10 Feb: The Ugliest Rep

by Chris February 10, 2011 CrossFit London workouts

That’s the thing about the CrossFit Total. Since it’s your max effort it’s going to be a bit ugly – by definition it’s the maximum you can lift for just one rep so it’s going to be hard. A shock to the likes of Jenny who commented ‘I’m not used to things being this hard [...]

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WOD 11 Jan: Five Alive

by Chris January 11, 2011 CrossFit London workouts

It’s a bish bash bosh post today… Warm up for this morning was Samson stretch and Burgener warm-up drills. The strength component was deadlift 5-5-5-5-5. I’m hanging around the 5 rep range for January as I’m looking to clean up some technique on movements that can breakdown on lower reps and heavier weights. As your [...]

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WOD: January 4th. Baby Steps

by Philip January 5, 2011 CrossFit London workouts
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WOD: January 4th. Baby Steps Today was the first day back to our normal programming at Crossfit. As noted by more than a few of tonights athletes, I was particularly benevolent today. Did I develop sympathy during the holidays? Hardly. But I know a few weeks away from training takes it’s toll. Baby steps are [...]

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WOD 23 December: Christmas Kipping

by Chris December 23, 2010 CrossFit London workouts

There was nothing especially Christmasy about the kipping we did today. Or the deadlift speed work. Or the rope climbs. Or, in fact, the kettlebell swing finisher. But I felt a need to shoehorn a Christmas reference in there just to stay festive. My last session before the big day and just in case you [...]

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WOD: December 14th The Terrible Two’s

by Philip December 15, 2010 CrossFit London workouts

WOD: December 14th The Terrible Two’s As any trainer will tell you, it’s important to meet the needs of your athletes. Today they were all freezing, so as a thoughtful and caring trainer, I had them work on some quick base skills of Overhead Squats, Chest to bar pull ups and Double Unders before going [...]

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