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Why you should sign up for the CrossFit Open…

CrossFit Santa Fe — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:47:37 +0000

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MONA AND TAIT!!!!! WE LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!

Mona and Tait are Birthday buddies!!!!!

Crow posted this blog on her fb page and it is so good and so pertinent, I had to share it with you…not to mention- I MISS CROW!!!!!!!

Training for the Games You Won’t Go To or When It’s Okay to Fake It

SIC FIT on February 6, 2012, 8:53am | More Posts

Training for the Games You Won’t Go To – or – When It’s Okay to Fake It

By: Kaitlin Prater

Let’s admit it. The vast majority of the CrossFit world, however dedicated and willing, will not make it to the Games. Not everyone will try but clearly the majority who do try won’t get the chance to move past the open or regionals. With all of the hype surrounding the upcoming Games season, as well as the new media blitz from Reebok, it’s hard not to get pulled into a more competitive and intensive training. So where does the Game’s season leave the rest of us? What does a dedicated CrossFit enthusiast do to suppress this need to compete – to get in on the action?

Fake it.

I’m not a fan of faking it in most circumstances, but this is one time where faking it really won’t leave you disappointed. Pretend like you are going to compete, even though you know you’re not.

The non-competitor’s 4-step guide to training for the CrossFit Games

1. Train like you have a chance. Prepare yourself for plenty of ESPN/ESPN2 time by working on your own weaknesses. Use this as an opportunity to show what you’ve accomplished in the past year. Watching the Games for hours on end (and highlights, and reviews of last years Games, and Rich Froning clips etc…) is not going to make you competition ready, however entertaining and inspiring it is.

2. Clean up your diet. Those rock hard abs and sweaty bodies crushing weight are great eye candy, but that kind of body and performance doesn’t come from cheat days, it comes from practicing what you preach. Live the life: Competitors don’t eat crap before the Games, and neither should you.

3. Get out of your rut. Yeah, your OHS is amazing but can you swim? Can you throw a baseball? The same actions get the same results so mix it up and be ready for whatever the Games might throw your way.

4. Show up. Go to regionals, even if it’s just to watch. And then go to the Games to cheer on your favorites and size up your competition for next year.

Kaitlin Prater is pursuing a PhD in health services research with a focus health behavior in the perinatal period and early life cognitive development. She is an avid CrossFitter at CrossFit Epic, Paleo fanatic, and currently resides in Iowa City, Iowa.

Truly an awesome article and so true. I know that when I competed in Boxtoberfest because Susan got injured and we needed another female for our RX’d team, I learned things about myself that I never would have found out otherwise. I really got to see what I was capable of (even without training…right, Henry?) and it is way more than I would have ever imagined…the screaming spectators and the adrenaline of fear and excitement doesn’t hurt either. Let’s all be the best we can be….

Wednesday:

7 Rds for time
7 OH SQUATS 95/65
7 c2b pullups
7 thrusters
200 mtr run

FORZA!

CrossFit Santa Fe — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:16:43 +0000

Jenna and Tolga Muscle UP!!

Today was so much fun(in a CrossFit kinda way) and a couple of athletes got their muscle ups today!!! Tolga, Chris W, and Joe S. all got their first muscle ups which is so exciting! Toga got his and then did 21 of them in the work out to do it RX!!! That man is a beast!!!

For tomorrow:

5×5 of front squat–increase 5-10 from last week

Cookie. 4 Rds for time
6 rollouts
9 dead lifts. 185/135
12 plate jumps

Seth K. at the bottom of a beautiful Front Squat!!!

Nasty Girls! Yeah!

CrossFit Santa Fe — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:12:16 +0000

Omigoodness! What a fun weekend and how amazing is Henry Martinez????!!! Thank you all that came out and showed their support for Henry and Undisputed at the Underground on Friday! We are all part of something truly great and unique. We love you!!!

Oh yeah!!! It’s going to be a spicy week…

“Nasty Girls“

3 rounds for time of:
50 Squats
7 Muscle-ups
135 pound Hang power cleans, 10 reps

BAM!!!!

The Original “Nasty Girls”- this video is awesome!!! You should watch it!!!Makes me want to get BETTER and FASTER!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDYpEtwimZE

The following is from http://www.inthecave.com/blog/?p=1767

That was Annie, the Asian girl, Eva, the taller one and former Olympic skier, and Nicole, the cute little one with the worried look in her eyes. Nicole needed to be more explosive on her muscle-ups. The static muscle-ups killed her on this workout. This was one of the early videos and she got even stronger subsequently. She now runs the level 2 CrossFit certifications. Annie was just a little met-con machine. She competed in the affiliate cup this last year for one of the Santa Cruz affiliates. Eva was so strong. She made a second athletic career competing in Olympic Lifting meets. Notice how she just blows through the high hang cleans.

I love this workout, it’s a great representation of a balanced CrossFit workout including a gymnastics movement, the muscle-up, an Olympic Lifting element, the high-hang clean, and a metabolic movement, the air-squats. I have to say that although all three of them are awesome, I think that Annie was my favorite Nasty Girl. At the CrossFit certifications she was always so spunky and enthusiastic while coaching. If you want to see the whole video, you can go to www.crossfit.com > Exercises & Demos > WODs > Nasty Girls. Who is your favorite Nasty Girl and why? What is your favorite CrossFit workout? Why? Are there any workouts that you would like to see two people from CrossFit Marin go head-to-head on? If so, which one and whom? Post thought to comments.

What do you guys think????

DT and where we are watching Henry’s fight!

CrossFit Santa Fe — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:23:33 +0000

OH BOY>>>>
A HERO!!!!

BRING IT!!! BE EXTRAORDINARY!!!! FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT HAVE SUCCESS JOURNALS, GET YOUR PENS READY!!!!

“DT“

Five rounds for time of:
155 pound Deadlift, 12 reps
155 pound Hang power clean, 9 reps
155 pound Push jerk, 6 reps

Post time to comments.

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In honor of USAF SSgt Timothy P. Davis, 28, who was killed on Feburary, 20 2009 supporting operations in OEF when his vehicle was struck by an IED. Timothy is survived by his wife Megan and one-year old son T.J.

AND FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE LOOKING FOR ANOTHER HERO, OUR OWN COACH HENRY IS FIGHTING HIS DEBUT FIGHT IN WHAT PROMISES TO BE A LONG CAREER IN THE UFC. IT IS ON FX BUT YOUR TRIBE WILL BE WATCHING AT THE UNDERGROUND SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4TH… COME BE WITH US.

More running; bring your hoodies!

CrossFit Santa Fe — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:21:59 +0000

Thursday:
5 rds for time
400 mtr run
10 kb goblet squat 32k
20 kb swings

Get you over the hump or turn you into a lump …you decide!!

CrossFit Santa Fe — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:23:28 +0000

Sweat Angel by Diego!

WOWZERS!!!!!

Wednesday
100 double under
80 kb snatches 24 k/16
60 toes to bar
40 kb squat cleans (1arm/24/16)
20 pistols
100 double unders

S**t CrossFitters Say….. and Front Squats!

CrossFit Santa Fe — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:25:33 +0000

It’s about time they got around to the CrossFitters!

What are your thoughts on the CrossFit version of this recent YouTube phenomenon? Did you see yourself in any of the characters? Post in the comments!

Tuesday:

Forza

Front squat

5 – 5 – 5 – 5 – 5 @ 65-75% of your 1RM

Cookie

5 Burpees

10 Games Push ups

20 Double unders

12 Min AMRAP

Kettlebell Ladder

CrossFit Santa Fe — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:36:14 +0000

I want to urge every one to attend Diego’s corrective movement class on Saturday’s at 11:30. It is amazing. I learned so much and I know that it is going to make a difference in the way that I move.

Monday
Find one rep Max Turkish get up
then
Kb ladder:
Every minute on the minute

Sumo Dead Lift High Pull

KB Snatch

1 of each on the the first minute

2 of each on the second minute

3 of each on the third minute…

until you cannot do the number of reps per minute within that minute.

Waiting for UPS

CrossFit Santa Fe — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:38:50 +0000

Cause it seems I ordered more shoes…

January 29 2012

Yes I am late posting…but on the upside of being late I can say…
Happy Birthday Diego!!

The new movement classes on Saturday are such a great addition to the work we are doing in Crossfit. Thanks for bringing this to us coach!

I saw a commercial for Gatorade that really really caught my attention. The new campaign is called “Win from Within”

Win From Within

Interesting campaign….it’s not about the shirt or the zero weight shoes, it’s about what is inside of you… hmmmm shoes. Shoes. Shoes.Shoes….I have recently become obsessed with my feet and how I am outfitting my feet. As much as I hate to admit it, much of this focus on my feet and the equipment for my feet comes from external sources. I listen to folks at the gym, I watch and listen to the throwers in Albuquerque, I read blogs, and I watch videos on you tube of throwers and Crossfit. I have “drunk the kool-aid” when it comes to my feet.

About six months after I started Crossfit, I bought myself my first pair of flat athletic shoes….my trusty Pumas….I also workout in an old ratty pair of converse. When I first started throwing highland athletics, these are the shoes I threw in.

In the Highland games, the flat shoe makes it hard to Throw some events, not enough traction. So, I eventually bought myself a pair of cleats…ha! Me ….cleats. The cleats made a huge difference in some events. In my favorite event, weight over bar, I feel like the cleats anchor me to the turf until I make the decision to explode and release the weight.

Then came one of the most extreme purchases…boot blades…dang, these are kinda sexy…..they hold your feet firmly to the ground when you throw a hammer…I haven’t quite figured out the form yet with the new boots, but I am working on it. The odd thing is, it wasn’t throwing “badly” without boots. So why did I buy them? Did I get them because they are kinda cool? Did I buy them to give me Scottish highland athletic cred? Did I buy them to made me feel like I was a legitimate athlete? I suppose time and practice will give me my answer about the boots.

Then came my Crossfit shoes. I found myself thinking, if I have special shoes for throwing, I should get the right footwear for Crossfit, right? So then the UPS guy delivers my Inov-8 and later my weight lifting shoes. I feel a little obsessive. Perhaps I have gone way too far, perhaps my old pair of converse are enough? Am I trying to compensate for what I feel like I lack on the inside by buying shoes? The same question exists for me about these new Crossfit shoes that I have about the boot blades.

I am not a serious weightlifter…but if I have these shoes I may look like one….

I really hope that isn’t true, because if it is…I am kinda pathetic.

Crap.

I want to believe there is something to the Gatorade ad…not that I think Gatorade is what I need on the inside…but that so much of what I can do comes from what I believe I can do…BUT there is something about having the right equipment as well….even if having the equipment simply makes me believe I can be better. I do want to be better, a better highland athlete, a better weightlifter, a better…um…athlete. So, I am trying this equipment, see what it gives me, see what I give myself by using it.

So…share…what is the equipment that helps you most?

Hey…how did those red shoes get in there? This is an athletic blog…

mona

Running and Deads…dress warmly for morning classes.

CrossFit Santa Fe — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:23:07 +0000

If you didn’t come to the noon class or you left early…this is what you missed out on!

Today was awesome. Grace gave every one a great challenge! Notable mention goes out to the 3 athletes that tackled Grace prescribed: