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:



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

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

Last WOD of the Year!

For those of you who watch TV, there will be a CrossFit marathon on Jan 1st. Check it:

Next year will be full of new advancements in the gym. For starters we have a NEW PULLUP STRUCTURE!

When everyone gets back from vacation you will see we have a new toy. Check it in this video,… but [...]

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Thursday

CrossFit:

Lynn:

Five rounds for max reps of:

Body weight bench press
Pull-ups

-Rest as needed in between exercises.

WhipCON:

“Mean Streets Ball Mission #270″

Carry a 20lbs/14lbs ball 1000m
then do this task:
3 rounds:
15 wallballs
15 med ball push press
15 med ball squats
Then lunge to corner and back(or fire hydrant if beginner: 100m):200m
Rest 2 min
Then lunge to corner and back(or fire hydrant if beginner: [...]

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WED

Spartan Joe finishing up 30 minutes of as many 20ft rope climbs as possible. He got 38 which is pretty amazing.

CrossFit games site has a write up about Andrea Ager: HERE

CrossFit:

Strnegth:

Thruster 5-4-3-2-1
Post Loads for each round.

WOD:

4 rounds for time of:
7 Handstand Push-ups
10 Dumbbell Hang Squat Cleans 55 lbs
200 m Run (fire hydrant)

WhipCON:

Lunge 200m (fire [...]

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Adjusted schedule for this week:

Sat: no classes
Sun: no classes
Fri night fundamentals at 7pm canceled
3:30pm classes all week are canceled.

CrossFit:

Overhead Squat 10RM

WOD:

3 rounds:
not for time:

5 overhead pistol squats each leg (45lbs-pvc)
30 sec L-sit on paralletes (fight for hight of feet)
10 GHD raises (see video)

WhipCON:

5 rounds fight gone bad:

Wall-ball, 20 pound ball 10 ft target (Reps)
Sumo deadlift high-pull 75 pounds (Reps)
Box [...]

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Monday

CrossFit:

Split Jerk:

2-2-1-1-1

WOD:

20 Deadlift:
10 Squat Cleans
5 Push Jerk

WhipCON:

5 Rounds

1 min at each station for max reps:

Tire Sledge hammer strikes
Single Jump Ropes
Kettlebell Swings
Wallball Hang Squat Cleans
Plate Push Press (35/15)
Run 530m (4 minutes, take the rest to rest)

CrossFit Mean Streets
Downtown Los Angeles

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Friday

CrossFit

12 days of Christmas

1 Burpee
2 Handstand Pushups
3 Deadlifts 225/155
4 Box Jumps 24/18
5 Thrusters 95/65
6 KB Swings 70/55
7 Pushups
8 Pullups
9 Clean and Jerks 95/65
10 Walking Lunges
11 Wall-balls 20/14
12 Power Snatches 95/65

Perform the workout just as the “12 Days of Christmas” song is sung and refrained. 1 burpee, then 2 Handstand Pushups and 1 Burpee, then 3 [...]

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This week special schedule

All classes will remain the same during the week. Sat and Sunday the gym will be closed.

CrossFit:

WOD: “Grinding Flint with a plastic spoon on the moon”

Set a 10min clock.

You have 10 minutes to do 65 dumbbell thrusters at 45lbs and row. You can break it up anyway you want. You must finish the thrusters (so [...]

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WED

CrossFit:

Single Arm Dumbbell Shoulder Press
-Work to 1RM
-Score is total able to do with both arms

Bulgarian Split Squat 16-16-16-16

WhipCON:

8 rounds of tabata pushups
row 500m (rest the rest of the 4 minutes)
8 rounds of tabata bicycle crunches
row 500m (rest the rest of the 4 minutes)
8 rounds of tabata barbell push press
row 500m (rest the rest of the [...]

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Tuesday

People Are Awesome 2011 – Watch MoreFunny Videos

CrossFit:

“Drink’n out of glass bottles”

4 rounds for time of:
21 Wall Ball (2 squats per throw)s 20 lbs
300 m Run (backwards) -to corner
15 Paralette Shoot Throughs
150 m Carioca Run -to fire hydrant
9 Sit Up To Stand Ups

WhipCON:

Run 400m

21-15-9

Thrusters (45/25)
Situps

Run 400m

21-15-9

Pushups
Dumbbell Rear delt raises

Run 400m

21-15-9

Supermans
Box jumps

Run 400m

CrossFit Mean Streets
Downtown [...]

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WOD GEAR TEAM COMP, and Competing

Kat, Stacey, Basile and Ronnie representing mean streets at WoD Gear Team Comp

CrossFit Competitions are really fun. This Sunday was an awesome day of fun events. IF you are interested in training for something,… there are a few coming up:

West Coast WOD WARS Feb 4th -a guy girl comp
StrongFit Feb 2011 -A strong man [...]

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