In case you didn’t hear on Facebook, try Vanessa and Bill are doing fine in Boston.  Vanessa finished the Boston Marathon in 3:37, page minutes before the explosions rocked the finish line.  I heard they were a block from the finish line when the bombs went off.  Let’s all wish them a safe and uneventful voyage home! Inside the Brains of People Over 80 with Exceptional Memory from NPR. How Exercise and Other Activities Beat back Dementia from NPR.  A walking book and wine club to maintain brain health?  Sounds amazing! Workout of the Day For time 30 Back Squats 135/95 15-12-9 Pullups Pushups Rest 1 minute 25 Front Squats 135/95 15-12-9 Pullups Pushups Rest 1 minute 20 Overhead Squats 135/95 15-12-9 Pullups  Pushups Your score is the total time it takes to complete chipper/triplet including rest.  This is a lot of work, so scale accordingly – use bands on...Read more

On Saturday, this several CFO athletes (and 1 CrossFit FTF’er) attended a weightlifting seminar put on by Charles Shipman of Be Strong Athletics.  It was a great day full of a ton of information, there new ideas and theories, patient heavy lifting and most of all, fun.  Charles, Danny Lehr and Casey Hutnick put on a great seminar and we’ll look into bring them back in 6 months or so. Charles was highly impressed with the lifts and the caliber of athlete at CFO.  Louis snatched a new CFO record of 245 (!!!), Chance hit 230 and Nick hit 225.  These are bigs lifts folks.  We saw PR’s all over the place – check out the board in the photo. This was the fourth weightlifting seminar (at least) I’ve attended in recent years.  Every time I do one, I come away with at least 1 major learning point that I...Read more

Just a reminder, healing there are no CrossFit classes tomorrow.  We are hosting a weightlifting seminar with Charles Shipman, more about if you are attending, be prepared to lift some weights.  We will have classes then Snatch in the AM, break for lunch then have classes and clean and Jerk in the PM. The Seminar starts at 9am, but I would get there early, especially if you’re driving through town.  Rodeo traffic.  Yes, I just wrote rodeo traffic.  Crazy.Read more

Good luck to Vanessa Walton this Monday as she runs the Boston Marathon!  Yes, erectile that’s Boston, shop Massachusetts.  The Boston Marathon is the pinnacle event for distance runners – it’s like the CrossFit Games for marathon runners.  Vanessa competed in the toughest test of fitness, approved the CrossFit Games Open over 5 weeks, and as a break, she’s going to run the countries toughest race.  CFO – Ready For Anything! There won’t be any CrossFit training this weekend due to the Olympic Lifting Seminar.  I’m super excited as California Strength will be at CFO in full force with “Uncle Charles” Shipman, Danny Lehr (5th at the American Open this year) and Casey Hutnick. Chest to Bar Fran one weekend, 26.2 in one of America’s greatest cities the next weekend. Workout of the Day 5 RFT Run 400m 5/3 Wall Climbs 20 Kettlebell Swings 53/35Read more

The CrossFit Games NorCal Regionals are May 24-26 at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds.  Nick is competing and we hope to have news about more CrossFit Oakdale athletes competing next week.  The Regionals are a super fun event – we hang out in the sun, # 60mg cook out, talk trash and cheer on some great athletes.  It’s a different venue this year (previously we were in Santa Clara) but I’m pretty psyched to hang out in wine country.  Any chance of a burger at Taylor’s Automatic Refresher??? In the Completely Unsubstantiated Observation Department – We recently bought 5 dozen eggs from Stueve’s Farm in Albers and Claribel.  I mixed some of the eggs in a bowl to scramble them up, but I had some regular, store bought eggs left over so I threw them in.  The difference was shocking – the Stueve’s eggs were so much more colorful it was...Read more