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December 2007

December 29, 2007

Tuesday January 15, 2008

Welcome to Crossfit San Angelo!

CrossFit is the principal strength and conditioning program for many police academies and tactical operations teams, military special operations units, champion martial artists, and hundreds of other elite and professional athletes worldwide.

Our program delivers a fitness that is, by design, broad, general, and inclusive. Our specialty is not specializing. Combat, survival, many sports, and life reward this kind of fitness and, on average, punish the specialist.

The CrossFit program is designed for universal scalability making it the perfect application for any committed individual regardless of experience. We’ve used our same routines for elderly individuals with heart disease and cage fighters one month out from televised bouts. We scale load and intensity; we don’t change programs.

The needs of Olympic athletes and our grandparents differ by degree not kind. Our terrorist hunters, skiers, mountain bike riders and housewives have found their best fitness from the same regimen.

Thousands of athletes worldwide have followed our workouts and distinguished themselves in combat, the streets, the ring, stadiums, gyms and homes.

Whatever your needs, goals, or station in life Crossfit is what you have been searching for. Please contact us with any questions,

Thank you.

WOD

For time:
50 Box jump, 24 inch box
50 Jumping pull-ups
50 Kettlebell swings, 1 pood
Walking Lunge, 50 steps
50 Knees to elbows
50 Push press, 45 pounds
50 Back extensions
50 Wall ball shots, 20 pound ball
50 Burpees
50 Double unders

Post time to comments.

December 28, 2007

Friday December 28, 2007

Do not believe what you have heard.

Do not believe in tradition because it is handed down many generations.

Do not believe in anything that has been spoken of many times.

Do not believe because the written statements come from some old sage.

Do not believe in conjecture.

Do not believe in authority or teachers or elders.

But after careful observation and analysis, when it agrees with reason and it will benefit one and all, then accept it and live by it.-Buddha

WOD

Run 5k

post time to comments.

December 27, 2007

Thursday December 27, 2007

I have this theory that chocolate slows down the aging process.... It may not be true, but do I dare take the chance?-Unknown

WOD

"Barbara"

Five rounds, each for time of:
20 Pull-ups
30 Push-ups
40 Sit-ups
50 Squats

Rest precisely three minutes between each round.

Post time for each of five rounds to comments.

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December 26, 2007

Wednesday December 26, 2007

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.-Confucius

WOD

"CrossFit Total"

Back squat, 1 rep
Shoulder Press, 1 rep
Deadlift, 1 rep

Post total to comments.

189 171 176 181 Power Cleans.

December 25, 2007

Tuesday December 25, 2007

Merry Christmas!

Rest Day.

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December 24, 2007

Monday December 24, 2007

"When one teaches, two learn."- Robert Heinlein

WOD

For time:
150 Burpees

Post time to comments.

These are from completely prone to jumping and touching an object eight inches above maximum reach.

December 23, 2007

Sunday December 23, 2007

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your conciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties, and talents become alive, and you discover youirself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed to be. - Pantanjali

WOD

Complete 3 rounds for time of:
Row 500 meters
Bodyweight Bench press, 30 reps

Post time to comments.

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December 22, 2007

Saturday December 22, 2007

"Joshie"

Complete three rounds for time of:
40 pound Dumbbell snatch, 21 reps, right arm
21 L Pull-ups
40 pound Dumbbell snatch, 21 reps, left arm
21 L Pull-ups

Post time to comments.

These are squat not power snatches.

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In honor of Army Staff Sergeant Joshua Whitaker, 23, of Long Beach, CA who was killed in Afghanistan May 15th, 2007.

December 21, 2007

Friday December 21, 2007

"The moving finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.-Omar Khayyam

Rest Day!

002 Nitro, the newest member of the family.

December 20, 2007

Thursday December 20, 2007

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.

Richard Bach
WOD
Run or Row 5k
Post time to comments.

December 19, 2007

Wednesday December 19, 2007

"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."

-- Benjamin Franklin

WOD

"Badger"

Complete three rounds for time of:

95 pound Squat clean, 30 reps
30 Pull-ups
Run 800 meters

December 18, 2007

Tuesday December 18, 2007

100% of the shots you don't take don't go in.

Wayne Gretzky
WOD

"Fran"

Three rounds, 21-15- and 9 reps, for time of:
95 pound Thruster
Pull-ups

Post time to comments.

December 17, 2007

Monday December 17, 2007

How to deal with death is at least as important as how to deal with life.

Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) in 'Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan'
Rest Day.

December 15, 2007

Sunday December 16, 2007

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

400 meter Walking lunge

Post time and number of steps to comments.

Saturday December 15, 2007

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."

-- Langston Hughes

WOD

Weighted pull-ups 1-1-1-1-1-1-1 reps

Post loads and body weight to comments.

December 14, 2007

Friday December 14, 2007

Today is my last day At SWTJC and in Uvalde, Tx. I just want to thank everyone who has enriched my life and listen to my endless hours of ideas on how to do things better. I have made some great friends and even a few enemies but the time here was worth it. I wouldn't change a thing.

My mind is always open to you if you have any questions.

WOD

Shoulder press 1-1-1-1-1 reps
Push press 3-3-3-3-3 reps
Push Jerk 5-5-5-5-5 reps

Post loads to comments.

Pukie

December 13, 2007

Thursday December 13, 2007

When you come to a fork in the road, take it. -Yogi Berra

Rest Day!

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December 12, 2007

Wednesday December 12, 2007

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."-- Arthur Schopenhauer

WOD

Back Squat 5-3-3-3-1-1-1-1-1 reps

Post loads to comments.

                           001_2                           206Working within individual abilities to get the pullups in.

December 11, 2007

Tuesday December 11,2007

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter F. Drucker
WOD

"Angie"

For time:
100 Pull-ups
100 Push-ups
100 Sit-ups
100 Squats

Post time to comments.

December 10, 2007

Monday December 10, 2007

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have. -Sir James M. Barrie

Push Jerk 3-3-3-3-3-3-3 reps

Post loads to comments.

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Don't use my treadmill! :)

December 09, 2007

Sunday December, 9 2007

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.-Samuel Johnson

Rest Day!

011 TGU

December 07, 2007

Saturday December 8, 2007

"Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid." -- Earl Nightingale

WOD

Deadlift

3-3-3-3-3

Post loads to comments.

Friday December 7, 2007

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. -Richard Bach, (Illusions)

WOD

"Lynne"

Five rounds for max reps of:
Body weight bench press
Pull-ups

Post reps for both exercises in all rounds.

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December 06, 2007

Thursday December 6, 2007

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Henry Ford
WOD

Five rounds for time of:
Run 400 meters
75 pound Sumo deadlift high-pull, 21 reps
75 pound Thruster, 21 reps

Post time to comments.

December 05, 2007

Wednesday December 5, 2007

"Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't."-- Pete Seeger

Rest Day!

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December 04, 2007

Tuesday December 4, 2007

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right.

Henry Ford
WOD
Front Squat
5-5-5-5-5
Post loads to comments.
Img_2530 Img_2523Img_2515Skill work with KBs during warmup!

December 03, 2007

Monday December 3, 2007

A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

George Santayana

"Michael"

Three rounds for time of:
Run 800 meters
50 Back Extensions
50 Sit-ups

Post time to comments.

                                                                           

December 02, 2007

Sunday December 2, 2007

WOD

5 minutes of Double unders
5 minutes of 95 lb Clean and Push jerk
3 minutes of Double unders
3 mintutes of 95 lb Clean and Push jerk
1 minute of Double unders
1 minute of 95 lb Clean and Push jerk

Post reps to comments.

Or you can try the Painstrom WOD if you can handle it!

Brought to you by Davie Easton of CrossFit Central Scotland.

"Griptastic"

500m Row

50 KB Swing Right Hand
50 KB Swing Left Hand

500m row

50 KB Snatch Right Hand
50 KB Snatch Left Hand

500m row

50 KB Clean and Press Right Hand
50 KB Clean and Press Left Hand

500m row

50 KB Swing Both Hands
50 Turkish Get Up

500m Row

Pick a weight and get to it! Post time and weight used to comments.

December 01, 2007

Saturday December 1, 2007

"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."

-- Booker T. Washington

Rest Day.

 

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