Virtuosity and Durability. Great insight on the evolution of high level CrossFit competition from Michael Winchester. His insight on good movement and positioning is ESSENTIAL. In past years at Regionals, this web you saw top guys and gals get away with poor movement and mechanics because they were tough, erectile athletic and/or strong. THAT IS NO...Read More
A few weeks ago Todd R shared a work story with me. I asked him to share his experiences by answering some questions and he provided a wonderful write up. For those of you that haven’t met Todd, more about he’s a firefighting Captain in Livermore, CA. He’s one of the nicest, most earnest guys...Read More
Wednesday’s benchmark WOD is Barbara. It’s a CrossFit Original, information pills one of Glassman’s earliest mad creations. Barbara is basically 5 intervals of a lot of calisthenics with 3 minutes rest between sets. The biggest issue we will run into with Barbara isn’t with how to scale it, but how to record the time. In...Read More
One Upper and Clock Whores Please think about this as a reminder post. It’s not a shot or a call out. I’m not posting this with anyone in mind. It’s a reminder of keeping what’s important – getting stronger, # dosage fitter and better everyday – your number one priority. In CrossFit, symptoms we use...Read More
Stand Up Paddle Boarding – June 15th 8:30am meeting time at Modesto Reservoir – $30 per person – please RSVP so we can set up teams. Rookie Rumble Competitions – June 16th at Hercules CrossFit. Bill and Vanessa W. will be competing for the first time. This event sold out really quick, healing and it...Read More
The CrossFit Games Northern California Regional has come and gone. It was a great event – for CrossFit and for CrossFit Oakdale. The sport of CrossFit has continued to grow at a rate that boggles my mind – thousands of people in a grandstand watching people workout, physician armies of media and judges, cost teams...Read More
Wednesday’s benchmark WOD is Isabel, diagnosis 30 Snatches for time at 135/95. The rep scheme and the weight are the same as Grace, ambulance but the movement is more technically challenging, sickness so you will need to be smart here. Scaling Unlike Grace, I recommend scaling the weight on Isabel if needed. Because the Snatch...Read More
CrossFit Oakdale had over 30 athletes tackle “Murph” on Memorial Day. It was a great way to honor those that have made the ultimate sacrifice – by working hard and working together. We’ve seen people’s strength and fitness continue to reach levels many of you never would have anticipated – we’ve seen PR lifts consistently,...Read More
CFO kicked Cindy’s butt on Wednesday! We had so many PR’s, buy more about I’m not sure I can keep up. Jen C and Danny both finished with over 24 rounds, sales Denny and Justin M went 20 plus and we had so many plus 10 rounders as prescribed my head is spinning. People are...Read More
On Wednesday, doctor the benchmark WOD is “Cindy, information pills ” a AMRAP 20 of 5 pullups, order 10 pushups, and 15 squats. This may be the quintessential CrossFit WOD – it requires little equipment (a pull-up bar and a stop watch), it doesn’t seem too hard at first and the fitter you get, the...Read More
