Fitness: 3 x 3 Linear Progression
Add 5 pounds to your last exposure, or if you’ve been through a few cycles of front squatting and have been grinding your reps, follow today’s Performance program and test a 1RM.

Performance: 1 – 1 – 1
Work up to a 1RM.

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Tabata Thrusters 45#
2 Minutes Rest
Tabata Pull Ups or Ring Rows
2 Minutes Rest
Tabata Burpees 

Score total number of reps for each movement (not each round) and grand total.
Post time and Rx to comments.

Brad during a recent muscle-up WOD

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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The Caffeine-Alcohol Effect The Atlantic 
The Best (and Worst) Positions for Sleeping Greatist

Today is a Rest Day! Take a cue from Coach Noah post-FGB and, well, consider napping on a sidewalk.

• Fitness magazine is looking for amazing transformation stories from women who have lost 80lbs or more. If that is you and you’re interested, please contact Karla.Walsh [at] meredith.com by 5pm today to be considered for their “I Did It!” section. 
• Congrats to Mel L., won the Herondale CSA meat share raffle! She takes home a 15-lb meat share, a $160 value! Congrats, Mel!
• Happy birthday, Neal P.!

Volunteer with Community Board 6

Last year, six members of the CFSBK community teamed with Community Board 6 (our local Community Board) to do an “Hour of Code” at PS/MS 282 (our local zoned school). It was a big success. Volunteers and schools are now being recruited to participate this year. If you would like to teach kids the basics of coding at one of our local schools, please take a moment and sign up to volunteer here. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Rob U at runderwood5 [at] gmail.com

Upcoming Local CrossFit Certification Courses 

CrossFit 718
11/8-11/9: CrossFit Powerlifting Trainer Course
12/20-12/21: CrossFit Kids Cert. Course

CrossFit Garden City
11/8-11/9: CrossFit Level 1 

CrossFit Morristown
12/20-12/21: CrossFit Level 1

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10 Things You Need to Know Before Starting Weightlifting Juggernaut
Lights Out: A Terrifying Horror Short The Atlantic

Fitness: Power or Squat Clean 1-1-1-1-1
5 attempts at a 1RM clean or power clean. Misses count as attempts. 

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

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5 Rounds for QUALITY (or 15 Minutes):
5-10 Strict Toes to Bar or Floor Levers
15 Russian Kettlebell Swings, as heavy as possible

Perform the T2B/FLs with a tight body and your legs as straight as possible. On the KB Swings, focus on perfect positioning in the foreswing (knees and hips extended, shoulders down and back) and back swing (chest out, back flat, arms straight, and hips loaded). 

Post what you worked on to comments.

Sam F. in a good hang position. Note his flat back and vertical shins, and how his shoulders remain out in front of the bar while the bar is still in contact with his leg. 

CFSBK Art Show: Featuring Joshua Peters 

Do you have CFSBK’s first Art Show on your calendar? 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!

One of our three featured artists is a friend of Coach David’s, Joshua Peters. His artwork, according to his bio, “explores the social, political, and cultural response to the individual heroic aspiration. By focusing on both traditional and non-traditional role models, he attempts to deconstruct the influence of masculine stereotypes by examining the conventional social rules imposed on males and females. His work is a reaction to the failure of our heroes as well as our surprise when they defy expectation.”

In additional to traditional oil paintings, Joshua also paints sneakers, which are pretty incredible. Check out more of his work on his website, at Strength to Spare. Joshua is also a fellow CrossFitter and coach. 

Introducing: Bricks Meals and Snacks

CFSBK member Michele W. and her husband have launched a new Brooklyn-based brand built around back-to-basic, on-the-go, foundational food, Bricks Meals and Snacks. Their first products, Bricks Bars, are made from grass fed lean meats, veggies, fruit, and seeds. Real food kept simple.  

Bricks Bars are currently available at Brooklyn Boulders, Brooklyn Fare, Foragers, West Side Markets, and other select grocers and specialty shops throughout Brooklyn. 

Michele will leave some samples at the gym this week, so if you happen to see one, grab it! 

Bricks is also hiring a part time Social Media Intern, check out CFSBK Classifieds for more info. You can also check out their first blog post here, and follow them on Instagram @bricksbars. 

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Don’t Choke The Atlantic
The Workout: Running While Pregnant New York Times
What a Tattoo Looks Like Up Really, Really Close Science of Us
The Paradox of Music-Evoked Sadness: An Online Survey PLOS|ONE

Fitness: 3 x 5 Linear Progression
Add 5 pounds to last week.

Performance: 5/3/1 1 Week
75% x 5
85% x 3
95% x 1+

Percentages are based off your TRAINING MAX (90% of a recent 1RM). Aim to hit 3 on the rep out, but save 1 rep in the tank. 

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Partner WOD
In teams of 3 with one partner working at a time, complete:
AMRAP 21 minutes:
12/10 Calorie Row
7 Burpee-Box Jumps

Post rounds to comments.

What did one erg say to the other erg? 

News and Notes

• Attention C.R.A.S.H.-B.ers: If you are signing up to train with Coach Nick, please make your payments here. There are two options: A) full payment of $220 due at registration, or B) payment plan of $55 each month for four months. No refunds on any payments made!
• Curious about the Meat CSA? If you’ve been considering joining the meat CSA program, come to the gym tonight between 5-8pm to meet farmer Jerry Peele. He’ll be selling packages of his famous bacon and ground beef (at a discount), running a raffle for a 15-lb meat share, handing out shares to members, and signing up new ones on the spot. Questions? Email mignyc [at] gmail.com.
• Root Hill Cafe (on the corner of 4th Ave. and Carroll) is back open, and better than ever. They hired a Paleo pastry chef (what?!), and will be expanding their food menu soon. All CFSBKers get a 10% discount with them, so head over and say hi. 

Recent PRs (that we know about!) 

• K HarpZ hit 160# on her C&J last Saturday
• Evan R. ran the NYC Marathon on Sunday in 3:20:16 (his first time, so a PR)
• Jake L. PRed his jerk at 374# yesterday 
• T-Bone hit 88kg on his snatch and 112kg on his C&J for a 200kg total
• Dee hit 90kg x 2 on his snatch
• Coach Fox hit 260# on his bench last night

Come at us in the comments or write on the white board between the bathrooms if you’ve PRed something recently so we can celebrate with you!

Registration is Open for CrossFit Hoboken’s Winter Challenge 7.0

CFSBK sends folks to the Winter Challenge each year. Please contact Coach MeLo if you sign up or have any questions, Melissa [at] CrossFitSouthBrooklyn.com. Note that this is an RX’d-only competition, so no scaling options are offered. Also, it sells out FAST, so jump on it! 

Event Registration & Pricing: 
Registration: Event registration is officially OPEN (click here to register)
Competitor Pricing: The registration fee for this event is $95.00 and includes a free competition t-shirt and complimentary admission to the after party at Village Pourhouse. 
Spectator Pricing: Spectator tickets can be purchased and provide access to the event. CLICK HERE TO GET A SPECTATOR TICKET 

Event Overview: 
Date / Time: Saturday December 6th at 9am
Location: CrossFit Hoboken located at 38 Jackson Street in Hoboken, NJ 
Divisions: Men’s RX and Women’s RX WODs
Individually Scored Workouts WOD Announcements: Workout announcements begin on November 10th 

Learn more and see which CFSBKers are already registered on our event page.

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The Luxury Of Solitude NPR
Tunnel Vision vs. Training ADD Catalyst Athletics
Do You Know How Many Calories Are In These Alcoholic Drinks? Buzzfeed
Better All the Time: How the “performance revolution” came to athletics—and beyond The New Yorker

The second your feet hit the floor on a clean, your hands should be open, elbows up with the bar fully racked on your shoulders. Developing this timing should be one of the first things you focus on when performing cleans.

Do You Know the Difference Between Exercise and Training?

By David Osorio

In a Huffington Post article at the beginning of 2014, noted strength coach and author Mark Rippetoe discussed the differences between training and exercise. Read the full article here, but in essence, Rippetoe says:

Training involves “directed physical stress,” and is “the process of going from where you are now to where you want to be later for the purpose of meeting a specific performance goal.”
“Exercise is physical activity performed for the effect it produces today—right now. Each workout is performed for the purpose of producing a stress that satisfies the immediate needs of the exerciser: burning some calories, getting hot, sweaty, and out of breath, pumping up the biceps, stretching—basically just punching the physical clock” (Practical Programming, 3rd Edition). 

While some debate ensued regarding other specifics in the article, the real value of this discussion, in my opinion, is the standardization of semantics when discussing the effectiveness of a program. These definitions are useful because most people have no idea what the difference is between training and exercise—and as an affiliate owner or coach, I believe it’s important that you guys know why Barry’s Bootcamp or SoulCycle are not actually training.

If our goal is to get good at CrossFit—which means increasing work capacity across broad time and modal domains—then there are certainly more and less effective ways to approach programming. No one could argue that someone blasting out 30-minute metcons day-in, day-out without ever lifting heavy or practicing skills is expressing CrossFit as effectively as someone with a balanced, thoughtful program. A good CrossFit affiliate should understand the differences between exercise and training, and bias practices that lead toward training such that we can see long-term quantifiable progress among both novice and advanced members. 

Below is a list that further differentiates between the two ends of the spectrum between exercise and training. This list is valuable for easily differentiating where a program might fall on that continuum.

Characteristics of workouts that fall on the far end of the spectrum toward exercise include:

• No specific, long term performance goal(s) 
• Non-quantifiable work output
• No standardization of range-of-motion in the exercises 
• Inadequate intensity/stimulus to catalyze an adaptation
• Arbitrarily designed workouts which don’t fit into a larger plan
• No control or consideration of additional variables (recovery, nutrition, etc.)

Characteristics of workouts that fall on the far end of the spectrum toward training include:

• Pursues a specific goal or adaptation
• Quantifiable performance outputs
• Standardized range-of-motion in exercises being used
• Specifically-programmed intensities to develop or maintain physical capacities 
• Each workout is part of a larger framework organized to achieve the specific goals of the program.
• Considers additional and complementary variables (recovery, nutrition, etc.)

Yesterday, we published the full version of this article on my blog Inside the Affiliate. The article goes on to discuss all aspects of training at CFSBK—from Strength Training, Olympic Lifting, Calisthenics/Gymnastics, and Conditioning—and addresses even more of the why behind the how. Read the rest HERE, and learn more about how CFSBK biases our programming toward training. 

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This Aerobic Video Wins Everything
Why We Sleep Together The Atlantic
Get Ready to Pay More to Ride the Subway WNYC
USA is Ready CrossFit

What training goals are you currently pursuing?