SBK Throwback: Charlotte Kaiser 3 Weeks Before Giving Birth To Linus

CFSBK Competing Tomorrow

Subway Series
Intrepid CFSBK Warriors, Jenn Stopka, Ryan Flynn, Mike Fiore, Zach Hodge, Rickke Mananzala, Matt Katz and Alan Lynch are all competing at the Subway Series event at CF Virtuosity tomorrow! They will be taking on a ladder version of “Amanda”.  Good luck, team!

Andrew Midgail had to bow out of tomorrow, if anyone is interested in taking his spot, please email him at andrew.migdail(AT)gmail.com

Powerlifting Meet
Coaches Jeremy, Noah, Lady Fox and Melo as well as Rob Is, David Turnbull, Lauren Howe and Sarah Larosa will be competing in the 30th Anniversary USAPL New Jersey State Open Powerlifting Championships in New Brunswick. Good luck, team!

Still Some Room To Get Strong

There are a few slots left in Coach Jeremy’s upcoming Strength Cycles, strike while the iron’s hot!
Strength Intensive-B Cycle-Intermediate
3 classes per week
August 13-October 6
Tuesday, Thursday at 7pm, Sunday at 10am
(5 spaces left)

Strength Intensive-C Cycle-Morning Novice
2 classes per week
August 12-October 2
Monday and Wednesday 6:30am
(2 spaces left)

ioby Cashmob Ends In One Week

Charlotte K (pictured above) says CFSBKers have pledged $250. We’ve still got one week before the cashmob ends and Charlotte will match all donations that come in from CFSBKers!

ioby turns five this summer. Since its founding, ioby has allowed more than 300 projects to raise more than half a million dollars in donations averaging $35. This funding provides crucial unrestricted operating money for ioby staff to recruit new project leaders, identify corporate sponsors, build out a better web platform for listing projects and managing data, and continue to grow. Today ioby is in 80 cities helping support civic engagement, neighborliness, and making life better for all of us. Your support means a lot! Donate here!
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As Many Rounds As Possible In 12 Minutes Of:
50 Double Unders
7 Power Snatches 135/95
10 Kipping Pull-Ups

Post rounds completed and Rx to comments.

Coaches Josh and McDowell demo a Kettlebell Swing/C2B Pull-Up WOD

New Equipment

We recently purchased two Ohio Bars to replace our slighly warped power max bars, a few more mobility goodies, some no tangle ring straps for the pull-up bars and 2 dog sleds. Get stoked.

Dan Betz’s BNCHMRK App

As CrossFitters, tracking and reflecting on our performance is part of our daily routine — we write our scores on the whiteboard after class and (some of us) post them in the comments on the blog. This is important, awesome stuff and deserves a more permanent and more easily accessible home. Over the past few months, I’ve been working with a couple of friends to build something for this very purpose. BNCHMRK is a web app for tracking your performance on all of the benchmark workouts — the major lifts, runs, rows, girls, heroes, and we even have the CF Games open workouts.

-Dan Betz
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In teams of two with one partner working at a time perform the following:

As Many Rounds As Possible In 25 minutes of:
400m Run
5 Power Cleans 185/125
5 Front Squats 185/125
5 Shoulder to Overhead 185/125

Post rounds completed, partner and Rx to comments.

Liz and James go Overhead

• Don’t forget that the CSA Meat, Veggie, Egg and Flower pick ups are TODAY from 6-8:30pm!

Coaching Position at CrossFit Columbia Street

Columbia Street CrossFit seeks Coaching Intern with the potential to move onto a long-term Coaching Role. Candidate must be upbeat, have a positive attitude, cheers for others, have considerable CrossFit experience and the desire to keep learning. Level 1 certification is not required but is a plus. Please submit your resume with a short blurb on why you want to be a CrossFit Coach to: Nate(AT)columbiastreetcrossfit.com.

Whitney Hubbard Teaching at Bend and Bloom

Whitney H. is substitute teaching some yoga classes two blocks from CFSBK on Saturdays this month:

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Benson being a Gooooood Booyyyyyyy
We love when you bring your Dogs to the gym. We LOVE it. That being said, there are a few guidelines to consider. If your dog bites, jumps on people or they cry/bark while you take class then we kindly ask that you do not bring them to the gym. Barking or crying dogs especially can be create a very abrasive distraction to the ongoing classes. Thanks!

• There is NO Active Recovery Today while Coach Fox is in Florida!

Zen Planner Reminder

If you recieved an email from Jess about switching to Zen Planner you MUST TAKE CARE OF IT ASAP. Once you get that email your current membership is inactive and we’re officially broken up. Don’t make us stalk you, just take the 5 minutes to reactivate your membership on the new system!

Other Stuff We Sell

We sell a few other things beyond shirts and memberships. Check out the list below and see if you can’t benefit from picking up one of these items.

Becoming a Supple Leopard: $30
The Ultimate Guide to Resolving Pain, Preventing Injury and Optimizing Athletic Performance. Dr. Kelly Starrett’s textbook on how to perform all the movements we do at CrossFit, a template for understanding movement restrictions and tons of mobilizations you can do to help get you into better positions and increase performance. 400 pages with full color photos. 

Lacrosse Balls: $2
You have no excuses to not own at LEAST one lacross ball. This is the “fine brush” in your mobilization tool box.  There are countless ways to inflict some soft tissue love (hate) on yourself with these guys. Great for sore muscles, adhesions and general stiffness.

Fish Oil: $25
Balance out your Omegas, decrease inflammation, defeat your enemies and look better naked. Nuff said.

Private Training: Variable
People often consider themselves to be either a group class member OR someone that does Personal Training.  Group class members should consider some once off or even semi regular private training to develop skills, trouble shoot movement issues and understand how to accomplish their goals. On top of our packages, we also offer 1/2 hour sessions for $55 and single hour sessions for $90. 
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We want to host another Movie Night. Post suggestions to comments!

5 Rounds for load and times:
Bench Press, heavy 5
250m Row

Work up to a heavy 5 on the Bench Press. If you think you’ve got room, go up each round. That being said, don’t go to failure on any set. Spotters are a must. Each row should be all out. Move quickly to the erg but don’t freak out about transition time, rest as needed after the row.

Post each Bench weight and 250m interval time to comments.

Meghan runs an 800m, Cheneve is hot on her tail.

• We’re 4 days into the new month. Post your short term goals to comments AND the goals board at the gym. 
• Editor Wanted: David is looking for an editor to help proof read some writing on a semi-regular basis. (about 2-4 times per month). Compensation would be handled through a % discount on group membership depending on total work load. Please email David(AT)CrossFitSouthBrooklyn.com if you’re interested.

Crush Week!

We’ll be hitting some more challenging WODs from today through Sunday before shifting into Back Off week. Use the next 5 workouts to really challenge yourself both mentally and physically. Try a slightly harder version of movements, attempt rep schemes and weights than you’ve not done before and see what happens. As always, prioritize movement quality, but even if scaling up slows you down a little this week, test drive some new territory. To read about the mental side of this week, read, “Zen and the Art of Crush Week“
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