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:


No Regrets in life

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

The CrossFit Open and the Cheaters

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

Cleaning House

Warm Up:

-Double under practice. 5 min.

-7 wall walks down to a bridge, do with a partner spotting you.

-3 min of switching back and forth between:
-Hollow rock
-Holding superman

-Self Myofascial Release

WOD:

7 Rounds For Time:
7 Unbroken Hang Squat Cleans
7 Unbroken Handstand Push ups
( Hang Squat Clean weight starts at 95llbs/55lbs, add 10lbs per round “95lbs 1st round, 105lbs [...]

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CFMS

3-14-10 WOD:

Run down the stairs and up the stairs X 2
21 GHD Sit-ups
21 Back Extensions
15 GHD Sit-ups
15 Back Extensions
9 GHD Sit-ups
9 Back Extensions

-Before or after the WOD:

Snatch Balance:
1-1-1-1-1-1-1

Some links from some Friend’s blogs worth reading:

Thin Patience . From CrossFit South Bay

CrossFit Women . From Orange Coast CrossFit

CrossFit Mean Streets
Downtown LA

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4-13-10 CrossFit Mean Streets Downtown LA

CrossFit Warmup

WOD:

Row/or Run 2500m
-Every minute on the minute do 5 burpees/or 10 kettlebell swings

WOD notes: Burpees is the number one choice. If for some reason you cannot do them, then you may do KB swings. Burpees only count if your chest hits the ground. Timer does not stop while you do your burpees.

20min Time limit

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Getting things Done!

Congrats to Joe, he competed in his first CrossFit competition this last weekend:

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Ronnie did well also, placing 1st overall.

As far as how the new place is going, things are going good. We are on our hands and knees cleaning the place:

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If anyone wants to help get in contact with Ronnie. The place is huge, and [...]

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Pardon our Dust

CrossFit Mean Streets is Moving! We are moving three blocks north to a place on the corner of 3rd and Main, so we are still downtown. We now have 8,000sq feet to do our WODs in,… hello Broad Jumps!

Here are a couple previews of what it looks like now. Soon it will be a playground [...]

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Rowing and Fun

Good luck to Joe, this weekend he will be competing with Ronnie in the NLP Invitational

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WODs:

A:
Row 5:00
Rest 2:30
Row 6:00
Rest 3:00
Row 7:00

-All out sprints

B:

GI Jane:
100 reps for time of:
Pull-up Burpee

A or B can be done in the order that you choose.

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4-8-10

4-8-10 WOD:

Strength

Push Press
3-3-3-2-2-1

-Warm up before so that these sets are max efforts

Untimed Workout:

5 rounds:

3 X PP (85% of 3rm)
35 X Back Bridges
60 sec plank hold on elbows

-Do not break up the plank holds, rest until you are sure you can get 60 sec.

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Pushups

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Brain Food:

Two Men who ate nothing but Meat for an Entire Year

NY Times confirms that Women who lift heavier weights will get more “toned”

Betting on the Blind Side

3-7-10

Warm Up:

Rowing sprints
300m
300m
300m
300m
150m
150m

-1st one is to be done at 75%, all others are all out sprints,… 1 min rest in between each [...]

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Stairs, Snatches and Overhead Squats

Some of the Crew after some fun and games last week:

4-6-10
Today’s WOD is going to be tough if you are tight. If this is the case make sure to get here early and do some hip and shoulder mobility drills. Some self myofascial release will be good with the rollers and balls also. I don’t [...]

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Deadlifts and Jackie

Warm Up:

Jog up the stairs once

Hip Mobility Drills

3 rounds:
5 burpees
10 mountain climbers

50-100 Double Unders

Workup to the Deadlift weight you are going to use in the WOD

I went down to CrossFit South County on Sat and this is the workout I did with the boys:

WOD 4-5-2010

Part 1:

Run 800m
Deadlift 315lbs untill 6 min is up.

-Clock starts at [...]

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