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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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

Tues WOD

It Reads it:

How often should I train

Westside Barbell Articles

Squatting to Poo

Strength

Power Clean:

5-5-3-3-1

WOD:

Tie a five-pound plate to hang an honest 18″ above your tiptoe reach and complete 5 rounds for time of:

50 Jump and touch
40 Squats
30 Sit-ups
20-Push-ups
10 Pull-ups

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Contrary to Popular Believe,.... We at CrossFit Mean Streets believe that you will not get pregnant from Tea

Whole foods is getting out of hand. They are making everything seem healthy. From the millions of snack choices made from agave, to the food bars and the canned coconut water…Even at whole foods one must be careful what one buys.

Here is another with flour tortillas,… that apparently flush fat?…Flush fat where?

-Justin does a fine [...]

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Sunday Mass. Snatches Galore, Starting at 10am at CrossFit Mean Streets, Downtown Los Angeles

Massacre:

Warm Up:

Snatch Skills Barbell Complex

6 rounds (45-95)

4 reps of each:

-Power Snatch
-Snatch Push Press
-Overhead Squat
-Snatch Balance
-Squat Snatch

Mobility:

K Star’s Mobility WOD from Sat:

Strength:

1 RM Snatch (land below parallel)

Strength WOD

-not For Time

-16 Snatches at 70% 1RM
-32 Blind folded Overhead Squats with 75lbs (use your tshirt,… girls, -you too)
-16 Snatches at 70% 1RM

High Intensity

Southwest Regionals 2010 [...]

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Sat Morning Quickie

PreWOD

3 rounds:

Greatest Stretch X 1 each side
Row 35ish strong pulls
50 double unders
15 Pass throughs
15 PVC Overhead Squats
15 Ring Dips
15 Unfamiliar Pullups
15 Kettlebell Side Raises

WOD:

21-18-15-12-9-6 and 3 rep rounds of:
Sumo deadlift high-pull, 75 pounds
Push jerk, 75 pounds

Post WOD:

10 minutes of stretching, SMR, or mobility exercises

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Downtown LA……. Smog Central

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Fran Tri-Tip with smooth jazz music

10 photos capturing moments of spontaneous badassery!”

8-26-26

Fran Tri-Tip
-Turn on Smooth Jazz
-Start the Clock

Do Fran at the start, 10 minute mark, and 20 minute mark

Score is Total Time working.

-Fran should be scaled to finish within 10 minutes.

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Check out Kelly Starret's Mobility WOD Blog

Website is here

Mobility is almost everything,… if you can’t move you cannot do anything. Everyone make sure they come to the stretching class tonight (thursday) at 8pm.

WOD:

For time:
50 Box jumps 24 (inch box),
50 Jumping pull-ups,
50 Kettlebell swings (1 pood),
Walking Lunge 50 steps,
50 Knees to elbows,
50 Push press (45 pounds),
50 Back extensions,
50 Wall ball shots (20 [...]

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....Because if this cat did CrossFit,... it would of owned this Lady

-You never know what life is going to bring you. It is important to go 100% everytime you are at the gym. Cause you never know when some old fat hag is going to pick you up and try and expire you.

Strength

Back Squat

5-3-1

WOD 8-25-10

30 Muscle Ups for Time

-If you cannot do muscle ups:
-120 Pullups
-120 Ring [...]

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“Find something that had a face and a soul, kill it, and bring its essence into your being”. -Robb Wolf

Robb Wolf Interview here. And his book should be preordered by everyone reading this here

Spirit of the Games Part 1: Chris Spealler

WOD 8-24-10:

Start 10 minute clock
-Run one Mile (3 laps down alley)
-Complete as many air squats as possible before the 10 minutes is up.

Score is amount of air squats

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Downtown LA….. Filming, Filming [...]

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This Weeks intro classes are Wed at 9pm and Friday at 7pm

Everyone Check out the Tough Mudder, we are definitely carpooling up the weekend of 9th and 10th in October.
It will hopefully be a lot tougher then the LA mud run we did this weekend.

Tough Mudder

8-23-10

Warm Up

3 rounds
25 wallballs
3 rope climbs

Strength

Deadlift

3-3-3

WOD:

21-15-9

Burpee Box Jumps (24″/20″)
Kettlebell swings (2pood/1pood)

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Sunday Mass, Leave your Ego at the Door or it will be stripped from you

Sunday Massacre:

Warm up:

Barbell Turkish Getups

10 each arm

First five are warm up sets, last three are max efforts, do not move up in weight unless you hit it on both arms

Max Effort:

Thruster X 3

Strength:

Not for time

5 rounds
- thrusters at 90% your 3rm X 2
-15 unbroken butterfly pullups
-5 rowing sprint starts

WOD:

10,000lbs (6000lbs women) ground to overhead anyway
5 [...]

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