Running

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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Running Club 19th April – Go Slower?!

by Efe April 23, 2011 CrossFit London workouts

The running club has been going strong for a few weeks now, with intrepid crossfit london runners drilling their running technique and working those intervals hard. For instance last week, we asked the runners to do 200m repeats, with explicit instructions to stick to a steady 75%-80% effort pace. What happened ? Everyone pretty much [...]

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Running Night at Bethnal Green

by Andrew March 29, 2011 Barefoot Running
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The running club for non runners met up again this Tuesday. Once again the session consisted of drills for proper running technique, plus a short and sharp little running workout to wrap things up! As with anything practicing these drills on a regular basis will yield results over time, please be patient with it as [...]

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CrossFit London Running Club

by Andrew November 8, 2010 Articles

We will launch our new “Crossfit London UK Running Club”  with some POSE method  and Crossfit Endurance coaching sessions. We have booked space for the next four Monday evenings (6.30 to 7.30pm) at one of the neighbouring arches (no. 11) to go through the basics of the POSE  running method. This starts Monday 15th November, [...]

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Private Benjamin or GI Jane?

by Kate September 26, 2010 Articles
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So there was this programme on BBC3 called Are you fitter than a Pensioner? Long story short, the results were deeply uninspiring. But, the teens involved went through some fitness tests before and after their challenge. It got me to thinking about how improving fitness can be measured other than a better Fran time (to [...]

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WOD 19 July: Death by 10m

by Andrew July 19, 2010 CrossFit London workouts

It was a lovely night. A strength biased Crossfit Warm up with particular focus on shoulder mobility in the samson stretch. We escalated the weight on the overhead squats and converted the 2nd and 3rd rounds of pull ups and dips to weighted ones. With Andrew back from his Crossfit Endurance certification, it was time [...]

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The 5 P’s of Running

by Andrew January 21, 2010 Articles

Part of our Journey at Crossfit London is to understand all aspects of Running. We will be working a lot with Lee Saxby ( Pose coach Level 4)  from  ’Zoo Human” and looking at the techniques and theory of Pose but, we also want to understand the “accepted” running theorys. In this way we can [...]

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Running, pose, Chi, Barefoot , Biomechanics and stuff

by Andrew January 17, 2010 Articles

The problem with running is that we all think we can do it. And of course, on one level we can. If I was to say, move faster with no consequences for your long term knee , foot, or  body health, sure we can all do that. But we  at Crossfit London are moving to [...]

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17 things you probably suck at (as a Crossfitter)

by Steven December 2, 2009 Articles

If we are honest, are we really as bulletproof as we could be?

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