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Free beginners’ CrossFit class, Saturday mornings(0)

March 9, 2010

Starting Saturday, March 20, come in at 8:30 AM for a free beginners’ workout. Get a sample of CrossFit and see how you like it. Find out how workouts are designed and how they’re scaled down or up for the right level of intensity.
Sign up for a free BEGINNERS’ introductory class This class starts Saturday, [...]

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Deadlifting for fun

Colin and Molly, visiting from CrossFit Bishop in California, came in to test their 1RM deadlift. Their cute-as-a-bug daughter crawled from place to place and found the small weight plates surprisingly hard to pick up.

Top 10 worst nutrition mistakes

From Nora Gedgaudas’s site Primal Body Primal Mind. My pet peeve is number 8, using negotiation-speak such as “moderation” and “once in a while.”
The one that I love the most for how it blows my mind is regarding gene expression, number 3 on Nora’s list. “Even by the most conservative geneticists’ standards, we have anywhere [...]

CrossFit on tour

Our friend Colin Broadwater, owner of CrossFit Bishop (California), is visiting Seattle with his family and came in to do “Diane” with me at noon. Here he is doing a 185-pound front squat beforehand, and sporting the “Dad” look with the black pants, black socks, brown shoes.

“Diane”: 21-15-9 225-lb deadlifts and handstand push-ups. Colin [...]


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