Workout of the Day:

“Angie”
For time:
100 Pull-ups
100 Push-ups
100 Sit-ups
100 Squats

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Gillian Mounsey by CrossFit South Brooklyn - video [wmv] [mov]

Workout of the Day:
Back Squat 5-5-5-5-5 reps
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Video of Back Squats at (old) CrossFit Litchfield Park.
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CrossFit in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, Rochester, NY:
Toughest in town?
Crossfit has become a national workout trend. Our writer jumped in to experience what it’s really like

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CrossFit Northwest Tucson
2008 Affiliate [...]

"Eva "
Five rounds for time of:
Run 800 meters
2 pood Kettlebell swing, 30 reps
30 Pull-ups
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"Eva" by CrossFit Los Angeles - video [wmv ] [mov ]

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Efficiency : How much value do you get for the cost of your physical training? (In terms of time, money, and every other input required for physical training.)
Efficacy : How well does your physical training serve your goals?
Safety : How likely are you to get injured from your physical training?
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An objective measure [...]

The CrossFit Versus WannaBeFit series intends to examine popular exercises and exercise beliefs, and contrast them with CrossFit’s standards, methods, exercises and workouts. In the process, I hope to demonstrate the why and how of CrossFit through actual exercises.
I also hope to artfully combine the positive and the negative: for every CrossFit virtue, there may [...]

Why should parents restrict children’s candy consumption?
Please don’t imagine that I will dispute the traditional prohibition against eating candy. On the contrary, I want to broaden and strengthen it. Further, I want the underlying wisdom of it applied with integrity and logical consistency: if a food causes your blood sugar to spike like sugar [...]

“Helga” — named by Alicia, a former Army machine gunner recently back from down range, who completed her first Grace today. Helga is a barbell complex with the sadistic twist of a 100 meter sprint finishing each round.
Helga: 5 rounds, of reps 10, 8, 6, 4 and 2,
Deadlift, Power Clean, Front Squat, Push [...]

I found the following well expressed testimonial on the CrossFit “mainpage” comments for yesterday (comments posted in response to the Workout Of The Day; for the most part, where people post their results in doing the WOD.) We see testimonials like this every single day; this one is nicely put and I decided to [...]

Early Sunday morning we setup our gym at Starbucks. I laid out 360 square feet of rubber flooring, setup the squat rack, three barbells, about 450 pounds of Olympic bumper plates, 5 Dynamax med balls and 8 kettlebells. We took a Concept 2 rower and whiteboards.

Starbucks donated free drinks for people who won the hourly [...]

Chippers are not the most popular workouts. They consist of a long series of different exercises; Filthy Fifty is a great example — one of very few chippers in CrossFit; we rarely do them.
While Dad was inside doing a strength day (heavy squats, deadlifts and presses) Kaitlyn, Karissa, Alicia and Tash played CrossFit Jenga. [...]

Here is the same exercise as taught by CrossFit and as taught by a personal trainer who is intelligent and successful in her business. Since it is too easy to pull stupid representatives of bodybuilding or mainstream gym culture — or to caricature the worst of mainstream fitness as we often want to do — [...]

During training I find myself explaining why we don’t, for example, use a Smith machine (a rack which guides the barbell along a fixed groove in which it is suspended on cables; the Smith machine offers the benefit of making it impossible to fall with the barbell outside of the protected path, and a simple [...]

If they’re really BIG monkey bars, it’s best to call them gorilla bars, right?
My standards for pull-up bars have ratcheted pretty tight. Hence our custom-built bars.

In Oman, I made two separate pull-up bar systems. The first I designed to be portable, but was large, at 8′ / 96″ tall, with bars of 1″, 1.5″, 2″ [...]

We’ve been working on our pull-up bars goodawful long. We think they’ll be done and installed in the next 4-5 days. The delay consisted mostly of finding a welder / fabricator to reliably take on the job. Once we were settled on our fabricator, a month went by before his shop was working. Today I’m [...]

This article by Dan John will introduce you to Litvinov, The Workout, and cursorily to Sergei Litvinov, the athlete.
And I’ll describe Nicole to you, myself. Nicole appears as follows on the pages of crossfit.com:

Nicole:
AMRAP in 20 minutes
400m sprint,
AMRAP pullups.
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NB: AMRAP means both As Many Rounds As Possible, and also, [...]