CrossFit Mean Streets

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WOD 4-1-11

Run 5k (9 laps, alley)

-Everyone should know what your previous time was, everyone should beat it

CrossFit Mean Streets
Downtown LA

I usually give these updates on our facebook fanpage(here) but this one was too large to put on the page and I feel like it needs to be read…. I just love downtown:

This is from our client, Aris:

Title: Paint Huffing Bum

So mid-workout, this old toothless bum wanders into the gym, and parks his wheel [...]

Standards here

WOD 3-29-11

Complete as many rounds and reps as possible in 15 minutes of:

9 Deadlifts (155lbs / 100lbs)
12 Push-ups (release hands from ground at bottom of rep)
15 Box jumps (24″/20″)

CrossFit Mean Streets
Downtown Los Angeles

Many people are afraid of animal fat. I recommend different diets to my clients mostly to cater to budgets, and schedule (not sex, goals, or weight,… regardless of the differences of these three differences,… in the beginning: you need basically the same diet). But the diet that will achieve optimal results in terms of [...]

CrossFit Mean Streets in Downtown News

The Reclassification of Sugar as a Drug

We must start thinking of food as a drug. It isn’t the calories that matter, what matters is the effect our diet has on how our bodies operate.

Yummy

Ok,… so I believe that we should listen to our cravings,…. because the body knows best [...]

Warm UP

4 Rounds

Run 1/3 mile
1 rope climb
15 wallballs

Strength:

Work to 1RM Push Press

Strength WOD:

5 Rounds

3 X 80% 1RM Push Press
15 Toes to Bar
20 Sledge Hammer

Timed WOD:

300 double Unders
50 X Alt Grasshopper Pushup, Alt T pushup*
Walk on hands 20m

Post WOD:

10 minutes shoulder/chest mobility

*Here are videos of the pushups, although our standards will be better:

-So you will [...]

Rowing Techinique

From Concept 2:
The Rowing Stroke

The rowing stroke can be divided into two parts: The drive and the recovery.
You will learn a coordinated movement pattern built upon the following positions and phases:

The Recovery (Phase 1)
Extend your arms until they straighten.
Lean your upper body forward to the one o’clock position.
Once your hands and the oar [...]

WOD 3-25-11

For Time:
60 Kettlebell Swings 53 lbs
50 Box Jump – 24 in.s
40 Wall Balls 20 lbs
30 Pull-ups
20 GHD Sit-ups
10 Power Snatches 115 lbs
100 ft Overhead Walking Lunge 45 lbs

CrossFit Mean Streets
Downtown LA

WOD:

#1

500m Max Effort Row

#2
Deadlift
1-10-1-20-1-30

#3

500m Max Effort Row

#4

As a cool down

50 knees to elbows

CrossFit Mean Streets
Downtown Los Angeles