Today’s WOD: “Tabata This” Pull-ups Push-ups Sit-ups Squats For those of you who got bumped from the Sactown Throwdown and anyone else interested in competing, there are a few other opportunities in February. CrossFit Sweat Shop in Walnut Creek is hosting Femme Fit 2011 on Saturday, February 5th. As the name indicates, this is a [...]
Even though the box is closed today that doesn’t mean you can’t take those stuffed bellies outside and get a WOD in! How about “Cindy” in the park, or “Annie” in your driveway? Maybe throw some tabata action in there. Or better yet, take off and run straight up hill for one mile like Chad [...]
Deadlift 8-6-4-4-4 rest 5 minutes Tabata Double-Under rest 1 minute Tabata Mtn Climbers rest 1 minute Tabata Double Unders I love having Stephan training at our box! The guy is funny as hell and wears some seriously fancy shoes! He’s a soccer player in his pastime, but this CrossFit thing has really grabbed a hold [...]
Run 800 meters Double Tabata Sit-ups-40 secs on, 20 secs off for 8 rounds. Run 800 meters Double Tabata Plank Holds Recently Da Ha-Y-N traveled to Arizona Combat Sports in Tempe and got to showcase his jiu-jitsu skills against former pro football wide receiver Michael Westbrook. Westbrook, who like Chad owns a brown belt in jits, is [...]
Today’s WOD: Deadlift 5-5-5 rest 5 minutes Tabata Box Jumps (8 rounds/with rebound) Tabata Sit-ups (8 rounds) Tabata Box Jumps (4 rounds) Tabata Sit-ups (4 rounds) That goal board sure looks fancy doesn’t it? Well it doesn’t mean anything if we let you post a goal with a target date of completion, and then not [...]
Elaine “Hoff” Hoffman started training at ARCFit approximately 6 months ago having never heard of CrossFit before. She did a Google search for gyms in the Sacramento area and ended up finding us. She had no previous experience with high intensity training but came in and immediately applied herself to the task. When Hoff started [...]
Strength WOD: Back Squat 5-5-3-3-5×1 @90% of 1RM Rest 5 mins CrossFit WOD: Tabata’s-20 seconds on 10 seconds rest for 8 intervals each exercise Tabata Run Tabata Bottom to Bottom Squats Tabata Jump Rope I recently asked several of our members the simple question of why they like CrossFit. Here is what they had to [...]