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Rowing Clinic – Saturday 9 AM at MDF 4

We are really lucky to have Kelly Powers, who trains at CrossFit Oakland give us a rowing clinic this Saturday at 9 AM at MDF. Please sign up at the gym by 8 PM Wednesday eve. After the basics of body positioning in catch/drive/finish/recovery, she will touch on the relationship […]


Affiliate Team Tryouts This Week! 2

On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, we will be having tryouts for the MDF Affiliate Team. If you make the team, the MDF Affiliate Cup team, you will be competing at the Southwest Regionals and Affiliate Cup Qualifiers. This is going to be so frackin’ awesome, it is hard to even […]


Some Good Links 8

Great John Welbourn interview. There are a number of funny stories over 4 videos. Who is John Welbourn? As much as I like John’s website and value his coaching expertise (It isn’t super clear why he posted this article), anyone who has seen someone lose 50 – 100 lbs and […]


Sectionals Day 1 Results 2

Scoring for the first day I am not sure who is going to Day 2. The last I heard (at 6 PM from Mike Minimum, one of the organizers) is that all the people who are within 100 points of 20th place (143 points) can do Sundays workout. I am […]


Mind Games

As you know, the CrossFit Games Nor Cal sectionals are coming up this weekend. Game Day is different than training, for better or worse, requiring unique skills that also require practice. You have seen them prepare physically but you may not have seen how these athletes prepare mentally. Take a […]


MDFTV: Donovan’s Clean and Jerk PR 5

MDFTV: Donovan Clean and Jerk PR from saul jimenez I can’t think of anyone more appropriate to start our new series of videos than Donovan. I think he started, on and off, about a year ago, but really started coming to class regularly this fall. Since then he has made […]


Final Stretch For The LB(A)N Challenge 2

We are almost done with the Look Better (Almost) Naked Challenge. Here are some things that you need to know: As described in the original post, you must have “after” pictures in for judging by Wednesday eve at 8 PM so that the participants can vote for the winner all […]