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

Labor day Schedule

Gym will be open as usual on Saturday, and Sunday. We will be closed all day on Monday.

CrossFit:

Split Jerk

Work up to 90% of 1RM

THEN:

10 rounds of

press
push press
push jerk

Max Effort:

1 attempt: Wallballs 20/14

WhipCON:

Warm Up:

400m run

then:

10 pass throughs
10 ohs
10 lunges
5 inch worms
5 hollow rocks

Workout:

3 x Max Effort L sit
10 pullups in between efforts

5 rounds:

100ft bear crawl
30 [...]

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Thursday

CrossFit:

Warm Up:

5 min of Double under Practice

3 min of rotating between hollow rock and superman

6 back bends walking hands down wall (Partner up)

WOD:

15 Burpee Muscle ups (or burpee pullups)
30 Toes to bar
45 Kettlebell swings (70/53)

Sprints:

10 rounds:

Sprint 100m on the minute every minute

WhipCON

Partner Up
2 Lap Run Plate Carry
10 Burpee box Jumps
20 High Five Push ups (face [...]

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Wednesday

CrossFit:

A)

Tabata Squats:

Score is lowest reps per round out of 8 rounds

Once complete with that go directly into:

3 rounds:

60 sec plank hold
1 rope climb

B)

Front Squat:

3-3-3

—> try to work up to 85-90% of 1RM

WhipCON:

On the minute every minute do Wallballs for 10 minutes
(the amount you did in the first 25sec will be the amount you do for [...]

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Party was epic. Thanks for all that came!

CrossFit:

For Time:
15 Thrusters 135 lbs
200 m Run
20 Thrusters 95 lbs
400 m Run
30 Thrusters 65 lbs
800 m Run

WhipCON:

8 Rounds of Tabata:

1 floor squat
duck walk steps for remaining time

Rest 2 minutes

8 Rounds of Tabata:

2 burpees
pushups for rest of time

Rest 2 minutes

8 Rounds of Tabata:

3 situps
Straight leg raises for rest of time

Rest 2 minutes

8 Rounds of Tabata:

4 [...]

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Saturday Summer Shake down Competition

Team Mean Streets took 12th Place
Coach Andrea’s team took 2nd
Coach Fischer’s team took 3rd

CrossFit:

6 rounds for reps not for time:

bench Press 135/95lbs
Pullups

WhipCON:

Farmers carry with odd object (pick anything from gym) 530m
25 clean and jerk with object
Farmers carry with odd object (pick anything from gym) 530m
20 clean and jerk with object
Farmers carry with odd object (pick [...]

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Secret WOD

Victor has 9am.

Ronnie has 11am.

CrossFit Mean Streets
Downtown Los Angeles

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Mike's WOD

Mr. Rando made up this WOD

He is moving to the East coast to be a fire fighter in a few weeks. So we will be losing him and Jen. They have been part of the fam for a really long time, its going to be sad to see them go.

CrossFit:

“Rando’s 39″

(this is pretty much [...]

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Run Fran Run

CrossFit:

Preloading:

Work up to heavy set of 3 thruster

This is not a 3RM. This is just to preload muscles so that Fran weight will feel lighter.

WOD:

Jog 1 mile (warm up pace)

rest precisely 3 minutes then:

“Fran”

21-15-9

Thursters
Pullups

Immediately finishing Fran Jog another mile as a cool down.

Only time that matters is Fran portion.

WhipCON:

Tabata 8 rounds each then rotate, [...]

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Party this weekend!

There is a lot to celebrate. Including the end of the Paleo challange. (If you cannot make it, submit picture this weekend to admin@crossfitmeanstreets.com)

Lets eat lots of food and then do this:

Sat 7pm, be there.

CrossFit:

Not for Time:

5 rounds:

3 deadlifts @ 80% of 1rm (regular stance, controlled, no dropping, no slamming or bouncing on ground, touch [...]

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Bar Muscle Ups

On Friday we did a WOD in CrossFit that included Bar Muscle UPs. This is an advanced movement. It was my goal at the beginning of the day to make sure that every person in the CrossFit classes got up and over the bar somehow.

This may have been easy for some of you. But [...]

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