CrossFit Mean Streets

265 S Main St Los Angeles CA 90012 (NW corner of 3rd and Main) (213) 290-2367

Blog Posts worth sitting down for:



Achievement is as simple as trying over and over and over again.

Moving Properly

Why we crave sweets, and why carbohydrates make humans FAT

“I believe and know there is only One, and how I do one thing is how I do everything.”

The Body Mind Connection

Accountability

2010 Year in review

WODing to Learn

Competing: Is it for me? When will I be ready?

The Diet of Ronnie Teasdale.... and CrossFit Mean Streets Los Angeles SUNDAY MASS

The importance of Focus Part Deux: Controlling your mind and body through blistering workouts

The Importance of Focus. Part 1 heavy Lifts

The World Sucks, But You Don’t Have To: A Badass Introduction

Do not feel bad for people who do not succeed

Things with Brains move, things that don't move don't have brains

The more you hurt in here, the less you hurt in life.

The World HATES you

Winning is the only option

The Mystery of Stretching and Flexibility:

Critiquing your life to optimization

Chronic Cardio is Forcing Your Body to Kill You and How You Can Save Yourself

Insights from inside the Global Gym....

A Word to all Competitors who train at CrossFit Mean Streets:

“Foods” that are commonly thought of as healthy but are really just killing you

CrossFit is Striving to be the BEST

It's not about the workout, It's about the effort,.... that will change lives

CrossFit at Mean Streets,… or anywhere in the World

Being functional all the way through life is important.

What Should You Avoid Eating?

You are human, and humans are amazing:

How to make a Sumo Wrestler
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FREE WORKOUT!

1st CrossFit Intro class is free!

CrossFit Mean Streets is a gym operated by Competitors. We compete in the sport of fitness and are ready to do the unknown and the unknowable full time. We train our athletes in the gym the same way. We want our people capable of all tasks this world has to offer. This is a gym made for people who want to be good at everything and make no excuses about it.

World-Class Fitness in 100 Words:

■ Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds,
some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep
intake to levels that will support exercise but
not body fat.

■ Practice and train major lifts: Deadlift, clean,
squat, presses, C&J, and snatch. Similarly,
master the basics of gymnastics: pull-ups,
dips, rope climb, push-ups, sit-ups, presses to
handstand, pirouettes, flips, splits, and holds.
Bike, run, swim, row, etc, hard and fast.

■ Five or six days per week mix these elements
in as many combinations and patterns
as creativity will allow. Routine is the enemy.
Keep workouts short and intense.

■ Regularly learn and play new sports.

-Provided by CrossFit.com

Bear Barbell Complex and Pushups

Warm UP:

SMR
-feet 2 min
-calves 2 min
-quads, inner and outer at least 2 min each

100 double unders, 1000m row, or .6 mile run

Hip mobility drills

3-31-10 WOD:

5 rounds for time of:
1 Bear Complex 115m/75w lbs (7 cycles without letting go of bar)
21 Push-ups

Post WOD:

Stretch for shoulders
Stretch IT Band
Stretch hamstrings
Stretch quads

Roll out feet again.

You will do what [...]

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CrossFit Mean Streets Downtown LA 3-30-10

3-30-10

Pre WOD:

PVC passthrough and shoulder mobility

3 rounds of 10-15 reps per set:
Weighted overhead squat
GHD Raises (wheelies)
Pullups
Ring Dips

WOD:
4 rounds for time of:
50m Walking Lunge
50 Sit-up

Post WOD:

Parallete L-sit for a total of 3:00
-Must hold legs straight and off the ground for a combined total of 3:00

CrossFit Mean Streets
Downtown Los Angeles

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CrossFit Total

WOD: 3-29-10

Total weight used for:

Back squat x 1 rep,
Shoulder Press x 1 rep,
Deadlift x 1 rep,

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Downtown LA

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5K Friday!

Congrats to Stephanie and Erin who completed the LA Marathon with smiles and no injuries!:

Stephanie and Erin, LA Marathon 3-21-10

WOD 3-26-10:

Run 5K for time.

We will do this at the Cornfield. If you are planning on coming to the gym first then you must be here on time (6:30am, 6:00pm). We are leaving right when [...]

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Fran

3-24-10 WOD: Fran

21-15-9

Thrusters (95/65)
Pullups

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Ring around your Tabata!

Warm up:

Running Skills/Drills

3 rounds:
-30 Sumo Deadlift High Pull (65/35)
-Alternate Row 500m, Stairs, Run .25 miles

WOD:

8 rounds, 20 seconds on, 10 seconds off of each exercise before moving on to the next exercise

Ring Pullups
Pushups (ring pushups if you can handle it)
Situps
Air Squats

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Diane

3-23-10

Partner Warm UP:

Get a partner. One person rows while the other person does Barbell Turkish Getups X 10 (55lbsmen/26lbswomen), 5 per arm.

Note the amount rowed and switch. Then compare rowing distance. Whoever does less has to do 1 burpee for every 30 meter difference.

Do three rounds.

WOD: Diane:

21-15-9 reps for time of:
225 pound Deadlift
Handstand push-ups

Post [...]

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Reading Material from CrossFit Mean Streets Downtown Los Angeles

This is for all those that need something to read while on the Elliptical Machine!…. Oh wait,… they have TV’s now!

Perception of effort, not muscle fatigue, limits endurance performance

Read “The (Political) Science of Salt” by Gary Taubes, The National Association of Science Writers.

John Sullivan – “The CrossFit Congressman” and “A Vote for [...]

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100 Deadlifts

Day 1 Highlights from the 2010 CrossFit Games SoCal Sectionals – video [wmv] [mov]

SoCal Sectional Day 2 Highlight Video… [wmv] [mov]

Skill work:
Double under Practice

Rowing stroke rate pacing:
Row 200m at each of these stroke rates:
-27 s/minute
-30 s/ minute
-35 s/minute
and note how each one feels

Overhead Squats:
Do a few warm up sets, Either use your bodyweight or scale [...]

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Fight Gone Bad

WOD: Fight Gone Bad

Three rounds of:
Wall-ball, 20 pound ball 10 ft target (Reps),
Sumo deadlift high-pull 75 pounds (Reps),
Box Jump, 20″ box (Reps),
Push-press 75 pounds (Reps),
Row (Calories).
1 minute rest in between rounds.

CrossFit Mean Streets
Downtown LA

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