Established 2007
For Time:
400m Run
15-9-6
Thrusters 75/55
Pull Ups
400m Run
15-9-6
Thrusters 75/55
Pull Ups
400m Run
Post time and Rx to comments.
Val wants to wish you a happy last day of Crush Week!
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Stunning GoPro Footage From the Front Lines of Wildfire with the Geronimo Hot Shots The Atlantic
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
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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
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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
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!
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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
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
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
Rack Thruster: 1-1-1-1-1
Must be one motion from the bottom of the squat to overhead. No jerks.
Post loads to comments.
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AMRAP 12 minutes:
150 Wall Ball 20/10, 14/9
90 Double Unders
30 Muscle-ups
Post rounds and Rx to comments.
Compare to 5.29.2014 and 3.23.2013
It’s Captain Osorio’s Dirty 30! Happy birthday, David!
By David Osorio
Originally posted on 11.16.2011
In traditional meditative disciplines, you aim to cultivate mindfulness in a physically neutral setting. Often the practitioner sits in a comfortable position and tries to bring attention toward their breathing. In yoga, we see a more dynamic approach where rhythmic breathing becomes interwoven with a controlled flow through a series of postures. In both of these instances, the intention is for the pilot to become more tuned in to the “now.”
In CrossFit, we achieve something very similar through a very different approach. During an intimidating lift or difficult conditioning piece, you’re forced to deal with the moment at hand. The high discomfort level of what we do takes that moment and amplifies the physical inputs to the point where you can’t help but focus on what’s happening. You know this intuitively and it’s why you get nervous before a 500m erg test or 3 Rep Max back squat attempt. You know that once you start, you’ll be forced to deal with the “now” until it’s all over. Every second gets dragged out and every moment to rest or doubt yourself becomes amplified against what needs to get done.
Take this opportunity to set your intention for the approaching workouts. Whenever you find yourself deep in the agonizing “now” embrace it and stay on task. Don’t look around the room to see where everyone else is, don’t check the clock to see how much time has gone by, and don’t make excuses to try and avoid what you’re feeling. Just keep fighting the barbell up or chipping away at reps until you’ve completed the task. If you lose focus and get derailed, don’t let it mess with your head, just come back pushing harder. Remember, you’re here to get stronger, both physically AND mentally.
Enjoy Crush Week, which starts TODAY!
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Underneath the Hoodie: David Osorio by Margie Lempert
Starting CrossFit South Brooklyn CrossFit Journal, a preview
We did it a couple years ago, but let’s do it again: describe David in three words or less.
Fitness: Snatch or Power Snatch 1-1-1-1-1
Work up to a 1RM snatch or power snatch in 5 attempts. Misses count as attempts.
Performance: Snatch 1-1-1-1-1
Work up to a 1RM.
Post loads to comments.
e6/6
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AMRAP 10 Minutes:
15 Deadlifts 185/125
10 Box Jumps 24/20″
5 Strict Handstand Push Ups or Dumbbell Press (@45% body weight)
Post time and Rx to comments.
No pressure!
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My Definition of Better Barbell Shrugged
Haunted Radiolab
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.
Post loads to comments.
e6/6
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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
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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.
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
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