Don’t worry, it’s not just you; the ergs are lonely, too. They can’t wait to see you when CFSBK opens again tomorrow morning!
- ALL CLASSES ARE CANCELED TODAY. We will reopen Monday morning (10/13).
- Happy birthday, Joy M.!
Alternate Programming Today
Coach Noah’s Beginning Kipping Pull-up Workshop at 11am
Register here!
Coach Noah’s Intermediate Kipping Pull-up Workshop at 12pm
Register here!
Due to the weather yesterday, the Running Clinic is today. Get some running education and a great track workout!
Endurance Coach Mike O.’s Running Clinic
What: 2-Hour Running and Endurance Clinic
When: Sunday, Oct 12th from 12pm-2pm
Where: Red Hook Track
Cost: $12
Sign up here!
Roller Skating with CFSBK!
What: All-ages roller-skating, admission for the first 25 people that RSVP is compliments of CFSBK
When: Sunday, October 12, 2-4pm
Where: the newly-opened Pier 2 Roller Rink at Brooklyn Bridge Park
RSVP to mare [at] CrossFitSouthBrooklyn.com
Brooklyn Boulders Field Trip
When: Sunday, October 12, 4pm
Cost: $30, includes day pass and gear rental for the day of the class (a $36 value)
Sign up here!
End the day with Stella Z.’s free pub quiz at 68 Jay St Bar, where Charlie tends bar:
Where: Sunday, October 12,7 PM,
Where: Smart in DUMBO, 68 Jay St Bar
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I had an insanely fun time yesterday with Brooklyn Boulders! Get in on this afternoon's if you can. I had never rock climbed in my life, and when I got to the end of my first "problem" and touched the tape at the top, I started swearing 'cause I couldn't believe how amazing it felt. Seriously good workout, too! Thanks Mare for organizing and I hope we can build many more bridges to our wacky neighbors on Degraw.
Kipping pullups and I are like a dysfunctional couple that gets together ever so briefly, then breaks up, then gets back together, then breaks up again. So I'm really glad the workshop happened again this weekend. I've taken it twice already, PLUS private instruction, and I STILL couldn't manage to get them consistently. For a while I could string two or three together, and then I lost even that because I didn't practice them consistently enough.
So when I came to the beginners' workshop, Noah was, all, "Haven't we done this before?" Yes. Yes, Noah, we have. I'm just in remedial school for anything that involves coordination.
Something clicked today, though, and I was able to get back to 2s and 3s by the end of class! Woo! Now I just have to, you know, keep doing them. I think I'm going to sub kipping practice for strict pullups in morning warmups, so that my practicing doesn't get sabotaged by having to run off to work.
Really fun to do this with my bro Serene. MGMT — can we have the workshop more often? Serene and I were discussing afterward that we wish there were more opportunities to learn the basics of the movement — I know it's not easy to fit teaching it into group classes where there's such a variety of strength levels and not everyone's ready for it yet. But I bet there are a lot of people who are on the verge of being able to do this movement and just can't figure out how on their own. It would be awesome if the kip workshop happened every 3 months or so, no?
Dropped in at CrowHill for some lifting
2 Snatch push press+OHS
135
185
205
225
245
Snatch
65%x2: 198
75%x3x2; 225
80%x2: 245
85%x2: 254
88%: 265
90%: 275
CJ
75%x3x2: 275
80%x2: 295
85%x2: 310
88%: 320
90%: 325
Snatch Pause at position pulls
100%+ish x2x3: 315