In teams of three with one partner working at a time, complete AMRAP in 30 Minutes of:
Max Unbroken Reps Bench Press
250 Meter Row

Choose a load that allows around 10+ reps when fresh. Score total pounds moved by the team on the bench press. Use a spotter for each and every set. 

Post total pounds to comments.

Competing in a team CrossFit competition is a great way to test yourself and have fun with your fellow SBKers in the process

Bend, Stretch, Mobilize, and Swing on the Rings

• Yoga for Athletes with Coach Whitney at 10am.
• Active Recovery is back on at 11am and noon today with Coach David.
• If you signed up for Ken H.’s rings class, remember that you’re meeting today from 2-3:30pm!

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Busting a Barrier, Preserving the Seams: Clothing Start-Ups Design Jeans for Muscular Athletes New York Times

Chris H. lets Coach McDowell know he’s his number one fan

News and Notes

• CFSBK Endurance Coach Mike O. wants you to know about the Unbreakable Runner 5K Challenge with CrossFit Endurance whiz Brian MacKenzie. It’s a challenge to improve your 5K time over the course of nine weeks. You need to submit a GPS-ed 5K time by the 16th, so learn more here and get on it! If you have any questions, email michael.olzinski [at] gmail.com.
• There’s a lot of new Lost stuff that’s been Found. Claim it by 11/27, or we’re giving it to someone who needs it more than you.
• NBC’s series “American Ninja Warrior” is casting Season 7. Do you think you have what it takes? Click here to apply, and here to see some of the competitors from last season. 

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The Solar System and the Earth Big History Project 

Clean and Jerk: 1-1-1-1-1
Work up to a 1RM Clean and Jerk for the day. 

Post loads to comments.
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Dumbbell Bear
Perform the following complex every minute, on the minute, for 20 minutes:
5 Dumbbell Deadlifts
5 Dumbbell Hang Power Cleans
5 Dumbbell Thrusters 

Loading is 45% bodyweight for advanced athletes. This version of “The Bear” was made popular by coach Mike Rutherford. If you are able to complete all the rounds, first start scaling up until you can do the weight as Rx’d, then begin to add one rep to the circuit. Seven reps of the complex for 20 rounds as Rx’d is the gold standard. 

Post load and rounds completed as Rx’d (within the minute) to comments. If you fell behind the clock, indicate how far you got and how many rounds you were able to complete in the remaining time.

Compare to 12.9.09.

Photog Asta F. during the most recent Subway Series “Team Jackie” event

Catching Up With CFSBK Classifieds

• Coach McDowell and Ellie are looking for a part-time nanny who can work Mondays and Wednesdays from 8am-6pm starting December 1st. Someone who has experience with infants and is ok working around a cat. If you know someone, let Ellie know!
• David and Rachel are selling their Concept 2 Rowing Machine. If you can’t get enough of the erg, hit them up! 

Travel Gym Recommendations

Have you traveled to another affiliate recently? Coach Noah wrote a great guide a few months ago about how to be a good visitor at other CrossFit gyms, titled “On the Road, and Sweaty: Visiting Other CrossFit Affiliates.” We love it when you post your experiences to the Travel Gym Recommendations tab in the bottom left bar. Check out these two recent ones and add your own! 

• Jason F. visited CrossFit 416 in downtown Toronto.
• Sarena K. visited CrossFit Herzliya north of Tel Aviv. 

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Modernity Big History Project 

Fitness
AMRAP 15 Minutes:
100 Sit Ups
80 Calorie Row
60 Burpees
40 Russian Kettlebell Swings
20 Pull Ups 

Performance
AMRAP 15 Minutes:
60 Calorie Row
50 Toes to Bar
40 Burpees
30 Russian Kettlebell Swings 72/53
20 Muscle Ups 

Post rounds and Rx to comments.

David skinning some cats during gymnastics class with Ken 

• Happy birthday, Adele M.!

CFSBK Art Show: Featuring Travis Poston  

Do you have CFSBK’s first Art Show on your calendar? The show is NEXT Saturday, November 22, from 7:30-10:30pm, with a live mural painting from 8-10pm. Free alcohol and lots of art from some of your favorite CFSBKers! For a full list, click here.

One of our three featured artists is Travis Poston, a painter who makes East Williamsburg, Brooklyn his base of operations. The 38-year-old New Jersey/Tennessee native uses acrylic paint, oil-based paint pens, and ink to create richly textured collages on slabs of plywood and canvas. His busy, colorful designs explode off the the canvases and recall the old-school street art and graffiti of hip hop’s early years.

Poston describes his work as “psychedelic—detailed chaos, really,” he says. “Shape merges with illusion to create a tasteful disarray of color, these pictures throw you into the vibrant world of the unknown.” Poston says he is more interested in the life of the mind, memory and magical symbolism rather than realistic representation in his pieces. We will have a few of his pieces in the show, but you can preview his work here!

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Human Evolution Big History Project 

Rajj with a good overhead position in the American swing

• Happy birthday, Mike W.!

Fitness App Recommendations 

By David Osorio

Below are three fitness related apps that I recommend. Check out the description and see if any of these make sense for you. If there are other fitness apps you like, please let us know about them in the comments.

myWOD
This has been the best workout tracker I’ve come across yet. Often trackers have very specific formatting that doesn’t allow you the flexibility to put in the different kinds of segments typically seen in a class. myWOD is easy to use, easy to search, and you can fill in all your lifts to see long-term progress without having to go through your book looking for previous exposures. I also like that you can customize all the lifts and make up your own benchmarks. There are also built-in timers, how-to videos for common movements, and other things you can tweak. It’s two bucks, but since I started using it I don’t think I’ll ever go back to paper and pen.  

Starting Strength Warmup
This is a great app for people who are not sure how to warm up their lifts on their own. Simply put in your work weight and the app automatically calculates your warm-up weights and reps for you. It also differentiates between Squats, Bench Press, Deadlifts, Pressing, and Power Cleans, which often require different jumps even given the same work weight. If you’re often confused about how to warm up your lifts or want the machines to do the thinking for you I recommend it. The only downfall is that the lowest weight it can process is 45lbs, so if your warm-ups or work weights are at or below that, then it won’t really be useful. 

Coach’s Eye
We often use this app with our clients and use the slow motion and frame-by-frame features to show people how they’re moving. You can even draw little lines and markers on yourself to see your relative joint positions and bar path. This is a good app if you know what you’re doing already or want to have a coach look at your form from a video. Otherwise, you’re probably just as well with the new slo-mo camera standard on iPhones.

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The Origin of Life Big History Project