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WOD 29 Jan: Fake Colin II: The revenge of Fake Colin

by Steven January 29, 2011 CrossFit London workouts

With the real Colin Menniss away on official business, I once again got to step into the role of Fake Colin for the day. I was joined this morning by the always affable El Hefe (Efe), who did a sterling job of running the 0900 Beginners and 1130 classes despite my best efforts to distract [...]

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WOD: January 11 Exposure Therapy.

by Philip January 12, 2011 Uncategorized

WOD: January 11 Exposure Therapy. I’ve been thinking a lot about finding and exposing weakness in technique or physical ability lately. I figured a decent way of exposing my weakness would be to split up Fran into its base skills, following the same rep scheme, and seeing where I had the most issues. As it [...]

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WOD 6 August: Dead Legs

by Kate August 6, 2010 CrossFit London workouts

By Colin Menniss Today we started with a warm up ladder followed by some skills and drills focusing on working the core. We practiced knees to elbows and toes to bar. Learned some great scaling moves and looked at how we can improve our current levels. We all had a go at spotting for each [...]

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WOD 19: May Mayhem followed by PB heaven

by Andrew May 20, 2010 CrossFit London workouts
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The night was thick with “whoots” and  ”whoops” as Deadlift PB after Deadlift PB’s was smashed at Crossfit London UK tonight. All the more satisfying as these inspirational performance were after the participants had knocked out a cheeky 5 rounds of 10 front squats (cleaned) block run I have posted some  videos  below, but they [...]

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WOD 12 April: I don’t like Mondays

by Steven April 13, 2010 CrossFit London workouts
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The Boomtown Rats had it right… Little bit of push-up work, with some variations to warm up the shoulders and arms, before working up to a three set max for: Weighted Dips 5-5-5-3-3-3 Like all exercises at CrossFit London we actively scaled this workout to meet the capacity of our clients. Where folks were able [...]

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WOD catch-up 1&2 March

by Andrew March 2, 2010 CrossFit London workouts

Too much posting, too few hours means, I’m behind in my updating of the website. So Monday’s fun  with a pinch and a punch) was a 3 x 5 front squat, followed by a 15 minute Cindy, followed by some “core” stuff. Tuesday was a fun packed snatch session that Twyla loathed, but the muscle-up [...]

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Crossfit by candlelight [February i-Course review]

by Andrew February 28, 2010 Articles

Well, the i-Course was going well; we were a good way through the cleans, when disaster struck…the building was plunged into darkness (semi-gloom really, but that doesn’t sound so windswept and exciting!), and nothing we could do would get the lights back on again…not swearing,  not moaning, not blaming shody workmanship, so…leaving the calm, and [...]

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WOD 24 Feb: Pull ups, Leg raises & Back raises: Team style!

by Andrew February 24, 2010 CrossFit London workouts

Well, we kicked off with a beginners class… …followed by a great team work out of: Three rounds for times: 15x Assisted pull-ups 15x Leg raises 15x Back raises It’s all go at the Crossfit London UK Blackboard Gym! More photo’s on the CrossFit London Flickr page, here.

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What is the Crossfit London i-Course?

by Andrew February 1, 2010 Articles

We already know it’s World Famous, but what is the CrossFit London i-Course? Its the course that empowers you to get control of your exercise regime
Find out more by clicking here!

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WOD 25 January: 5 x 10 front squats at Crossfit London

by Andrew January 25, 2010 CrossFit London workouts

A quick glimpse at tonights Crossfit London Woman only session Girls pose (above), and Michelle warm up her front squat (below), in todays, horrible 5 x 10 front squat WOD, preceeded by some kipping practise.

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Wrist pain in the Front Squat: hints from Crossfit London

by Andrew January 20, 2010 Articles

If you give Pat an olympic bar to hold, it settles  in the right place (see above photo) The bar rests on his anterior deltoids, his chest is big, and his elbows point forward. His fingers act as  a type of  safety catch and make sure the bar stays where it is  supposed to. Well [...]

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