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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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

Friday

CrossFit:

Strength:

Find 3RM Hang Squat Snatch

-Do at least 3 sets of 3 at heavy load.

WOD:

Mini Nancy:

3 rounds:

250m Run (corner and back)
10 overhead squats (select weight)

WhipCON:

Partner wod, 2 rounds for time of:

50 Box Jump 24/20
50 Jumping Pull-ups
50 Kettlebell Swings 1.5 pood/1 pood
50 Walking Lunges
50 Lying Leg lifts
50 Dumbbell Push Presses 35/20lbs
50 Good Mornings 45/35
50 Wall Balls [...]

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Thursday

CrossFit

Skill:
10 min:

Muscle Up Progression
or
if you have Muscle ups, work on Ring Handstand Pushups

Strength:

Find 3RM Weighted Pullup

WOD:

Partner WOD:

5 rounds:

row 250m
Deadlifts (225/135)

One person rows while the other deadlifts. Score will be total amount of deadlifts minus time penalty.

Time Penalty: For every full minute this workout takes you minus 10 deadlifts.

Example:

12:00 minus 120 deadlifts from score
13:46 minus 130 [...]

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Beyond the Whiteboard is BACK!

Beyond The Whiteboard is Back!!

Max’s last day is Wednesday…. He is going back to Italy on Thursday!…..We wish him Well!

beyond the whiteboard was designed by crossfitters for crossfitters, anything else need to be said?
We are back using Beyond the Whiteboard. It is a online training journal hosted on the internet. You are welcome to [...]

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Tues

Strength:

Find 10RM of Press

10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1

Double unders
Pushups (with hands on dumbbells)
Strict Pullups

WhipCON:

10 min of Jump Rope practice

then:

10 X
200m row sprint
1 min rest

move directly into 8 rounds of tabata squats

then directly into:

5 x
100m row sprint
30sec rest

CrossFit Mean Streets
Downtown LA

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Monday, Front Squats

CrossFit:

-Compare to 9-12-11

5 Rounds:

8 Front Squats (55-75% of 1RM)
Sprint to Fire Hydrant and Back
Sprint to Corner and Back
Rest 1 min

WhipCon:

1000m row
9 thursters (95/75)
26 pushups
11 pullups
9 floor squats (one leg if you can)
26 box jumps
11 lunges (per leg)
9 burpees
26 knees to elbow
11 thrusters (95/75)
500m row

CrossFit Mean Streets
Downtown LA

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No class Sunday

We will all be at the Frogman Challenge supporting our athletes

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Friday

CrossFit:

21-18-15-12-9-6-3

Handstand Pushups
L-sit Pullups

If you cannot do this movement do the same thing but isolated holds:

21-18-15-12-9-6-3

Isolated Handstand hold (to scale down from this do regular pushups)
Isolated L-sit Chinup hold

For those that do this isolated variance, do this additional WOD:

Strict Press
1-1-1-1-1
Push Press:
3-3-3

WhipCON:

Complete four 5 minute rounds, spending one movement at each station. Rest one minute [...]

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If a frog can Muscle up,....you can too!

Watch the amphibian show us how to do a bar muscle up:

If you cannot do MU’s then this is what you are going to do:

Notice she uses her hips first then pulls with her arms. Just like EVERYTHING else we do in here:

“Hair Pick”

AMRAP 20
3 muscle ups (or muscle up progressions)
6 knees to elbows
9 Kettlebells [...]

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Jello Jiggler

We have been working squats a lot in the last two weeks. You should not worry about the over volume, it does not exist. Your body will get used to you using your legs everyday by making you stronger. What you do have to pay attention to is tightness. Make sure you elongate your muscles [...]

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Tuuuueessday

This is exactly what you don't want to see after your 400m run

CrossFit:

Sprint:

1 mile time trail (3 laps)

Back Squat:

-8 sets of 1 above 80% of your 1 rep max

WhipCON

8 rounds:

Run 300m (end of alley and back) plus tire pyramid
12 pushups

CrossFit Mean Streets
Downtown Los Angeles

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