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What is your goat's name?

January 25, 2012

How To Kill Your Goat by Freddy C from One World. I agree with Freddy’s 3 steps to killing your “goat”. FYI – you “goat” is a movement, # exercise, buy weight, ailment time domain, or more that you suck at. I’ve been doing CrossFit for over five years. After I got fit, I felt like I was pretty good, but not great at everything. Once I started competing, I found there were things I was pretty good at, and some things I was bad at. The more I do CrossFit, the more I feel like I have “goats” to work on. It’s probably best to follow Freddy’s approach, and pick ONE AT A TIME. Be warned, I am the worst guy in the world at this. Here’s my advice on working “goats”. In the beginning, practice them fresh, in small bits. Let’s use Double Unders (DU) for example. Come...

Guitar Zero. I caught about 2 minutes of the author, remedy Gary Marcus, visit web being interviewed on NPR on Sunday morning. This isn’t a book about how to learn the guitar, it’s the story of learning and setting goals during a time in your life when many people have given up on learning new things. What do learning/mastering a musical instrument and developing a mastery level of fitness have in common? Pretty much everything! I’ve posted on this before, but in a 2 minute snippet, Marcus said to learn an instrument, you need to: Give yourself slack, but practice. There is no substitute. Practice makes permanent. Be patient, and put in the hours, but enjoy each incremental advancement. It will take time, maybe years. Embrace the journey. Target your weaknesses. As CrossFitter’s we talk about this a lot, but there really isn’t a better way to achieve a higher...

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We know you love new equipment!

January 23, 2012

I made a scheduling mistake. I thought the Fresno Comp was this Saturday, drugs it’s next Saturday, # Feb 4th (Super Bowl Weekend). That gives you an extra week to tighten up your game. OR, purchase you can compete, do 3 WODs, and have a massive, cheat day on Super Bowl Sunday! They will have a scaled division, so even if you are new to CrossFit, you’ll have a chance to throw your hat in the ring. I’d like to get a caravan to head down to Fresno, as we have at least 4 athletes competing (Emm, Lou, Don and I). If your interested, sign up quick! We’ll put up a tent, sit in the parking lot, talk trash and do some workouts. Who needs a Super Bowl when you have CrossFit Saturdays? Before you head down, make sure you pick up a CrossFit Oakdale t-shirt! We...

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FTF Competition & Bring A Friend Saturday

January 21, 2012

Bring a Friend WOD at 9am! Come on out and get a free workout! If you didn’t know, find Crossfit FTF in Fresno is doing a competition next week. A few of us will be heading down. It’s a good event that’s relatively close by. It will be my third year participating. Tony Workout of the Day 9am Partner WOD Expect SumoDeadlift High Pulls, sick Box Jumps and Toes to Bar/Knees to Elbows 10am Advanced Heavy Power Clean on the minute for 10 minutes Short rest WODClub Open Chipper 50 Toes to Bar 40 Box Jumps 24/20 30 Bar Facing Burpees 20 SDHP 95/65 10 OHS 95/65

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Take care of the hands that take care of you

January 20, 2012

Lots of pull-ups in the WOD today, information pills and taking care of your hands is essential. You will develop calluses on your hands as they toughen and you do more work. You need to ensure your calluses stay even and not overly large, or you run the risk of hand tears. Hand Care from CrossFit Park City. This is coming from Chris Spealler, and he can do 100 pull-ups in a row, so he must know something about hand care. I can sum up hand care in one word: Ped-Egg. The Ped Egg is basically a cheese grater for your feet, but it does amazing things for a CrossFitters hands. I prefer to have my hands dry when use the Ped Egg: when they’re wet you can over do it.I buy a pink Ped Egg at Target and I whack down my calluses. The one I have a has...

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