Entries by Andrew

MBC KAREN

ARTICLES + Taste This, Seattle: The Fish Toast at Analog Coffee’s B-Side Is One of the City’s Best Eggless Breakfasts – The Stranger CrossFit WOD for Tuesday 6/20 for time: 150 medicine ball cleans, 20/14 lbs Fitness = 10/8 lbs, Performance = 30/20 lbs Endurance WOD Short Interval: 10x 200m run, with 1:00 rests between efforts […]

Suitcase Carries

ARTICLES + CJ Cummings Repeats, Wins 2017 Junior World Weightlifting Championships – BarBend CrossFit WOD for Monday 7/19 deadlift 3x3x80%, 3x2x87%, 2x1x93% Rx 3 rounds for time: 200m suitcase carry, 24/16kg 20 burpees 20 dips Performance 3 rounds for time: 200m suitcase carry, 32/24kg 20 burpees 20 ring dips Post time to whiteboard! Olympic Weightlifting WOD […]

Pride Friday: Sylvia Rivera

Sylvia Rivera: Transgender and Immigration Civil Rights activist Words by the gay liberation activist and #trans icon, #SylviaRivera. In honor of #TransAwarenessMonth ❤️ A post shared by Fusion (@thisisfusion) on Nov 22, 2016 at 3:29pm PST Sylvia Rivera is one of my heroes. She fought for Transgender and immigrant rights, for poor people and people […]

JACK FRIDAY

ARTICLES + Don’t Worry About Your Workout, Just Get Up and Keep Moving – Nicole Tsong for the Seattle Times CrossFit WOD for Champagne Friday 6/16 “JACK” AMRAP in 20 minutes: 10 push press, 52/38kg 10 kettlebell swings 24/16kg 10 box jumps, 24/20″ Post score to whiteboard! Olympic Weightlifting WOD snatch, clean & jerk, HEAVY Kettlebell […]

Pull! Pull! Pull!

Nate A at UrbanCF’s FIGHT GONE BAD circa 2011 The pulling movement pattern should be solid: pull the shoulder blades (“scaps”) together, following through with the elbows. In the row, you drive with the legs and finish with the elbows. In the hang power clean, you drive with the legs and finish with the elbows […]

Bumper Time

Masskrugstemmen Who’s ready for another FCF FIELD DAY?! ARTICLES + Episode 58 – Nicole Carrol On the Early Days and Preserving the Culture of CrossFit – Julie Foucher CrossFit WOD for Wednesday 6/14 deadlift 3x2x93%, 2x1x95%, 1x1x97% AMRAP in 12 minutes: 12 plate ground-to-overhead 12 burpee onto plate 12 overhead lunges Fitness = 20/10kg, Performance = […]

Why Do I Celebrate PRIDE?

Why do I celebrate PRIDE? I am passionate about our incredible gym family and I want to nurture the diversity, inclusion and equality that makes us our community so special. It’s important to me that our gym is safe, welcoming and respectful to all who come in. Pride Month is an opportunity to show my […]

A Kettlebell Chipper

Two-hands anyhow ARTICLES + Sweet Potatoes vs. Potatoes: Which Are Really Healthier? – Precision Nutrition CrossFit WOD for Tuesday 6/13 AMRAP in 3 minutes: 7 kb front squat, right side 7 kb snatch, right side 7 strict press, right side 7 kb front squat, left side 7 kb snatch, left side 7 strict press, left […]

Distance From the Wall

Brian C Standing further away from the wall is actually a better strategy for powerful-enough athletes doing wall ball ball. Trajectory sends it exactly toward the intended target and if accuracy is correct, shoots the ball directly back at the athlete’s chest, allowing further cycling. There is no wasted extra effort in overthrowing, and no […]

The Unquiet Professional

ARTICLES + 2017 East Regionals – Lucas Parker CrossFit WOD for Friday 6/9 “T.U.P.” 15-12-9-6-3 reps for time of: power cleans, 61/43kg pullups front squats, 61/43kg pullups U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Michael H. Simpson, 30, of San Antonio, Texas, died May 1, 2013, from injuries caused by an improvised explosive device on April 27, 2013, […]