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

Deadlift

Warm Up

Row 2000m at a moderate pace

WOD

Deadlift 5-5-5-5-5-5-5 reps

Post WOD

50 knees to elbows

CrossFit Mean Streets
Downtown LA

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Get inverted

WOD 6-29-10

21-18-15-12-9-6-3 rep rounds of:
135 pound Sumo deadlift high-pull
Pull to inverted hang and lower as slowly as possible

On SDHP’s, pull the bar to make contact under the chin. On pulls to inverted hang, keep arms, trunk, hips, and legs as straight as possible, both up and down. This is not for time.

Post WOD

10 min [...]

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Gymnast skills

“Fitness as a Full-Time Pursuit” by James Wagner, The Wall Street Journal.

Warm up:

Make sure to do these over the blue mats: Spend 15 minutes on skills

WOD: 6-29-10

“Kelly”

Five rounds for time of:
Run 400 meters
30 Box jump, 24 inch box
30 Wall ball shots, 20 pound ball

Post WOD

3 rounds
Max Pullups
Max Ring Dips

CrossFit Mean Streets
Downtown LA

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GRIFF

Everyone check this out: Next Level Invitational

Warm up:

3 rounds:
Samson Stretch 20-30 seconds
10-15 Box Jumps
10-15 Chest to Bar Pullups
10-15 Rolling Back Extensions
10-15 Knees to Elbows
10-15 Dips or parrellete HSPU

“ WOD: Griff”

For time:
Run 800 meters
Run 400 meters backwards
Run 800 meters
Run 400 meters backwards

Post time to comments.

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In honor of USAF SSgt Travis L. Griffin, 28, [...]

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CrossFit Intro Sessions for this Week.

Intro sessions:

Monday 6-28-10: 8:00pm
Tuesday 6-29-10: 7:30am

Intro sessions are free, and our way to show people what we do here. Our website and gym may look a little intimidating if you are on the outside looking in. But CrossFit is for everyone, especially those who are not in shape looking to get fit. If you are [...]

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Sunday Grinder WOD

Warm Up: BB complex 75# – 105# with push-up chaser

Strength: 3RM Dead Lift

Stamina: 5 rounds: 2 x DL @ 3RM, 10 BPK, 20 45# overhead weighted walking lunges

Work Capacity:

for time: 100 Back Squats (135 -155#). Every minute do 5 burpees.

Durability: sprints 10 x 100 yds, 15 sec rest between sets. Active stretch

- BPK is a [...]

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Sat

Sat WOD

5 rounds

155lbs thrusters X 5
Muscle Ups X 5
Run 400m

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Sat BBQ postponed

With the World Cup and the fact that a lot of us will be out of town, the BBQ will be postponed till a weekend after July 4th. Sorry, but we will do it another time.

Read:

Lift heavy Chickas! 10 Reasons heavy weight don’t bulk up the female athlete

Warm up:

Jog 400m
20 wallballs
run faster [...]

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Body Work

SMR

-Pick 3 areas

Spend 2 min for each area

WOD:

10 minutes Handstand push-ups
5 minutes Squats
2 minutes Pull-ups
1 minute Push-ups

Score is total reps

CrossFit Mean Streets
Downtown Los Angeles

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This Sat Workout is Free. Bring Friends to get their Asses kicked! BBQ After

Sat WOD at 9am is Free. The workout will consist of thrusters, running and muscle ups. The workout can be scaled to anyone’s abilities, so nobody should be scared. (unless you are a current client, if you aren’t scared before a WOD then something is wrong).

Here are some more women kicking ass: Notice they [...]

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