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Hi! My name is Daphne. Most of you don’t know me but I attend the 12:30 class on Mondays, Wednesdays, and I do my best to come in on Fridays too.
I’m currently 20 weeks pregnant with my second child though I don’t know yet if [...]
Continue Reading →I was working with an athlete doing lunges last week and we found a wayward screw in the parking lot. He said that saved him $500. It turns out his car has tires that can’t be repaired, well they can, but they won’t because the car can go fast enough that they can’t guarantee the [...]
Continue Reading →Many people think that lifting heavier weights makes you stronger for the same reason that people think that eating less will allow you to lose weight, because it makes intuitive sense. After all, people who you consider stronger than yourself lift heavier weights than you, so lifting heavier weights must make you stronger. Overall, they [...]
Continue Reading →We’ll be busy as… Mad Dawgs this year.
CrossFit Open Workouts – Saturdays starting Saturday, Feb. 25 – Saturday, March 24.
Climb For Air – Saturday, March 31 – Climb the stairs at the Bank of America building in SF. Why, because they are there. Sign up for the Mad Dawg Fitness Team!
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Continue Reading →Sorry I haven’t been blogging, it’s not that I haven’t had anything to say, it’s that we have been reading, watching DVDs and learning at seminars so much that there has been no time to write and, honestly, I didn’t know where to start… until today.
I saw two videos this morning from the [...]
Continue Reading →Here is the workout if you want to do it on your own (although, I can honestly say, it is a lot easier to do it with a group or a partner).
A team of 4 will have one rack and one set of weights and 15 minutes to get a back squat 3 [...]
Continue Reading →This Saturday, Jan. 14 we are going to be hosting our annual holiday workout with CrossFit San Carlos. I know it’s a little late, but we just couldn’t get on the same page in December. Besides we are still getting holiday cards so I think we are right on schedule. AND MLK and Presidents day [...]
Continue Reading →We had a conversation about Alex Honnold and free soloing during the warm-up the other day. I am not sure that these were the videos that Curt saw, but never the less they are pretty cool if only for the time-lapse photography of Yosemite. Oddly enough, I just read an article about him and I [...]
Continue Reading →Happy New Year!
CrossFit Games 2011 Blitz is on ESPN today – Watch the games now and get yourself inspired for great accomplishments in the coming year.
No excuses – we have a regular class schedule this week.
Continue Reading →As many of you know, we started using the Functional Movement Screen (FMS) yesterday. A huge thank you to all who participated, it was definitely a little crazy getting everyone through the screen. We screened over 30 people and considering it was our first time, I think it went pretty well. Over the next months, [...]
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