Remember folks, buy Saturday at 9am will be partner/team WODs.  We hope you bring out your friends to check out CrossFit.  We’ll keep the movements relatively simple so your friends don’t have to be worried about doing hand clapping handstand pushups, cliff hanging muscleups or any such madness.  The exercises we’ll be doing are listed below.   Alison and I will be heading down to CrossFit Ventura next Saturday to attend the CrossFit Goal Setting seminar with one of my CrossFit heroes, Greg Amundson.  In 2006 and 2007, when I started CrossFit, “Greg A” was the guy everyone chased.  His videos in the CrossFit archives are inspiring and informative.  If you are interested in how CrossFit grew, watching Greg’s CrossFit videos like “Elizabeth”, “Power Elizabeth”, “Heavy Fran” or “GI Jane”  are CrossFit 101.  These videos taught me what intensity and work capacity look like. CrossFit Oakdale won’t be open next...Read more

This will be CrossFit Oakdale’s first post on nutrition.  HOO-RAY!  Everyone’s favorite subject, abortion right?  No?   Like it or not, medical nutrition is perhaps the MOST important component of health and fitness.  If you read “What is Fitness”, and you’ll notice Nutrition makes up the foundation of our program.  Hang around someone that has been CrossFitting for a bit, and you’ll hear words like the Zone, blocks, Paleo, Primal, gluten free, insulin, organic, grass fed and more.  Google any of these words and you’ll get an idea of what our nutrition is like.   We’ll be talking about nutrition more as we grow.  I get questions about supplementation, and my answer is that we want to get the nutrients we need from the foods that we eat.  Perhaps the hardest thing for us to get in our diets in Omega 3 fatty acids.  A good Omega 3 fish oil...Read more

Good Evening CrossFit Oakdalians! I am excited to introduce you to MindBody online. It is a really cool website where you can access your own accounts, # schedule classes and even buy stuff online (gift cards, apparel (like sweatshirts), fish oil – all the cool stuff we will be having.) The main thing I want to show you this evening is the online scheduling feature. If you are planning to come to the 6am classes, we will need you to sign up online. This way we know if people will be there in the early AM. You must sign up online before 10pm the night before the class. After 10pm the online sign up will be closed. You can reach MindBody Online through our Schedule & Pricing page. Just below the schedule, you will see a link that says online scheduling. Click on it. It will take you to the...Read more

We’ve only had one person show up at 6am, check but there will be NO 6AM CLASS ON WEDNESDAY.   We have a few details to work out and then we’ll be taking pre-orders for the CrossFit Oakdale full zip hoodie.  Be the first kid on your block to have one!   Workout of the day   AMRAP 20 Run to the fence with something heavy (Men 53# KB, Ladies 35# plate) 24 Abmat Situps 12 Ring DipsRead more

Yesterday, remedy I posted on the ideas behind CFO’s programming.  Today, tadalafil we’ll talk about what to you should expect to see in a given week, and how this will build out over the coming weeks and months.   CrossFit Oakdale will hold “pure” strength sessions 2-3 days a week.  I used to program 4, but I found this left me tired and depleted.  Never say never, and never say always, but I generally like to have a day where the focus is a “slow” lift (usually power lifts, heavier loads/less reps) followed by a day with the “fast” lifts (Olympic lifts, lighter loads/higher rep ranges/faster movement) or vice versa.   Strength is the foundation of fitness.  Even marathon runners need strength.  We will spend a great deal of time focusing on strength: power, speed strength, muscular endurance and more.   CrossFit recommends a schedule of 3 days of training,...Read more