I am going to summarize the video because I was a little all over the place. 🙂 Position: Mobilize for the bottom of the Toes-to-Bar (hip flexors and shoulders/chest) and the starting position of the clean (hip floss). Movement: Practice moving your butt down before starting the clean, every single […]
I thought 13.1 and 13.2 were bad but 13.3 has been the worst and the worst thing was that I knew how bad it was going to be! Welcome to the jungle! Well anyway, I managed to live in spite of bonking in a pretty bad way. Here are a […]
I have seen some good content on preparing for the CF Games 13.2 workout but most of them have references to the way the the top competitors would do it and that is just not how most of us will be able to approach the workout. CF Games Open workout […]
We are doing an experiment this January. We believe that appropriate mobility is a major contributing factor to performance. As you know, we already have a mobility class on Thursday at 7 PM, but we are going to add a class on Monday at 7 PM to see if we […]
Dylan caught a typo in the newsletter that really changed the workout on Friday. There is also some lack of clarity with the 1 RM, so here is how the Friday workout should read: Strength: Full – (Hang) Power Snatch – 3 Position Time Domain: 10 Min GID Conditioning: 3 […]
2013 is the year of adventure at MDSoF. What we think defines adventure is that it has a planned outcome but you aren’t entirely sure what the outcome will be once you start into it. Every adventure has to have some factors that you can control and some that you […]
As some of you know, most weeks I listen several podcasts (Robb Wolf, Chris Kresser, Strength Coach, Grey Cook and others). This week I am taking a small break to listen to Tyler Hamilton’s new book, The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, […]
Power starts with position. Annie Sakamoto at the 2011 CrossFit Games (see more) In the first and second part of this series, way back on January, we talked about four pillars that comprise your foundation for strength training which, by no coincidence, match our training philosophy (in parenthesis). Mobility, from […]
Yes, we do have a method to our madness. I have been promising to write about Hormonal Training for a few months now because it seems like there is a lack of continuity between what is in my head and what happens in the gym. Hormonal Training is a system […]
Todays workout is: 20 rounds on 1:00 0:00 2 x clean pull 1:00 1 x (hang, if necessary) clean increase your weight if necessary 2:00 2 x clean pull 3:00 1 x (hang) clean increase your weight if necessary 4:00 2 x clean pull 5:00 1 x (hang) clean increase […]