We’re grown ups, symptoms so we’ll let you guys open your Christmas presents early.  We’ll even tell you what it is (some of you got one at the Christmas party).  It’s a lacrosse ball, # approved sometimes known as a “painball.”  The only difference – yours has a sweet CrossFit Oakdale stamp on it.  We’ll be handing them out this week so make sure you get a “painball.” So, how do you use your brand new toy?  Basically, you jam into into areas that hurt, apply pressure, and move it around.  Bookmark Kelly Starrett’s Mobilitywod, and watch videos.  Learn.  Geeking out on mobility will pay huge dividends in your fitness.  The painball acts like a scalpel to target painful or inflamed areas, especially if you are experiencing tendonitis or other aches and pains.  Review the mobility posters we have hanging in the gym, many of the movements call for a...Read more

                            Holiday Party at 5pm – Phat Hogs in Oakdale (SaveMart Shopping Center)  $11 if you haven’t already paid Alison. $10 for White Elephant gift if  you would like to participate. There will be a kids  version that is $5 gift. Dave 9am Kettlebell Swings Squats Push Press   10AM – 20 things of funRead more

The CrossFit Oakdale Holiday Party is at 5pm at Phat Hogs (in the Savemart parking lot) on Saturday night.  Please RSVP on Facebook.   On Saturday at 9am, purchase CFO will have a Bring A Friend WOD.  At 10am, remedy we will be doing a 400 rep chipper that was posted on CrossFit.com last week.  20 reps of 20 movements, medications and it looks like the WOD takes over 20 minutes.  Hopefully the weather is good and we can do some movements outside.  Please review the WOD – we will have 3 types of bars set up, 135, 95 and 65.  If you can’t use one of these weights we likely won’t have the equipment for the WOD.  As it is, each movement/barbell will be first come, first serve.  If a piece of equipment is taken, you may have to skip it and come back to it.  We have one...Read more

Top Tips For Your First 2 Years of CrossFit from Tabata Times.  A very nice list from Tabata Times.  I met Steve Kpa of Tabata Times at CrossFit Walnut Creek, page and they caught some sweet pictures of Louis, web Alison, Tricia and I in the middle of some tough WODs.  Steve and his crew have a great eye for good CrossFit stuff, so I would bookmark his online magazine.   In the link, he includes a list from on one my favorite CrossFit blogs ever, Barbells and Bacon.  Jon Matzner created this blog, but he hasn’t posted anything new in over a year.  It’s shame, because there is still great stuff there.  The list of 11 tips for a CrossFitter is insightful and simple, but I would suggest checking out B&B and reading the older posts, as they are just as good.  The content is extremely varied for a...Read more

Ben Bergeron of CrossFit New England (the Games champs in 2011 and coach to several CrossFit athletes, pharmacy like Chris Spealler) tells you how to attack your goats. Power Steer by Michael Pollan Light at Night May Lead to Depression, more about Brain Functioning Problems from the Huffington Post Another from the camera of Breanne Ash Photography – Jen. Workout of the Day Strength Deadlft Heavy 5, add 10# to last weeks lift Metcon AMRAP 12 50 Double Unders 5 Strict Pullups 5 Ring Dips 50 DU 10 Strict Pullups 10 Ring Dips 50 DU 15 Strict Pullups 15 Ring Dips Keep going up…Read more