Knees out!  Elbows up!  Heels!  These are a few of many exclamations you can expect to hear tomorrow as we work on the clean, with a little extra emphasis on the catch.  After all, the catch position for the clean is really just a front squat.  Once we get into working sets we’ll be...
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Over the past few weeks we’ve worked on rolling, hand balancing, pressing, and various static holds.  This week we’re going to take what we’ve practiced and apply it to developing handstands.  Practicing handstands will not only improve strength (want bigger numbers in the overhead barbell movements?), but it will also improve spatial awareness, a key...
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I don’t have the heart to put you all out in the cold, even though I know you’d all gladly subject yourselves to more hill sprints. Meet tomorrow at CrossFit Fenway at 10 AM to jump start your weekend.
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This has been a great week at CrossFit Fenway.  All of our members keep showing up and kicking ass every day.  From Kevin getting his first muscle-up, to Ty deadlifting more than one barbell ordinarily holds through conventional methods, and everyone in between, great job.  All of you are what CrossFit Fenway is all...
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We’re going to be working on two very technical movements tomorrow.  The muscle-up and the overhead squat each require a great deal of focus, not to mention core to extremity strength, to be executed.  We don’t want to be accused of making anyone think too hard, so we have a nice monostructural suck-fest to...
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It’s a test, and it’s designed to measure what’s there, not create something that’s not. That’s what training is for. - Mark Rippetoe from the CrossFit Journal Article explaining the CrossFit Total The CrossFit Total consists of warming up and then making three attempts of a single rep in the back squat, shoulder press,...
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The muscle-up is a movement that takes the athlete from a position under an object, pulling up, to a position above that same object, pushing down.  We began practicing the parts and pieces to put together a muscle-up on the rings on Monday, and will continue working on the progression throughout the week.  The...
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Yesterday Stacey, Erica Kroon, Patrick Cummings, and I participated in the Winter Mixer at Cynergy Crossfit in Hanson, MA, representing CrossFit Fenway.  We had a lot of fun, and Stacey took home some hardware, placing second among all female competitors.  Check out Cynergy’s website for photos of the great day, full of hanging out...
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