Windy City CrossFit | Chicago, IL

8/21/09

Push Press 3-3-3
Push Press 1-1-1

"Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use."
- Ruth Gordon

*Reminder - no CrossFit Kids Windy City class on Sunday - we're back on the 30th.

Does Exercise Reduce Your Cancer Risk?
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Here's a little taste of what Brock (one of our own) will be going through this weekend - as a part of SEAL FIT Camp Class 7 - wish him luck!

8/20/09

REST DAY / MAKE-UP WOD / SKILL WORK

"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop."
- Ovid, BC 43-18AD, Roman Poet

Barefoot Running Debate
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No Arms Koltse

8/19/09

3 rounds for time:
20 pull-ups
30 push-ups
40 sit-ups
50 squats

"The qualities and capacities that are important in running - such factors as will power, the ability to apply effort during extreme fatigue and the acceptance of pain - have a radiating power that subtly influences one's life."
- Jim Fixx

More Critique Of The Time Magazine Article
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8/18/09

For time:
3 mile run

"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."
- George Orwell

CrossFit Kids Windy City - is canceled this Sunday.  We'll be back on the 30th.

Time Magazine Let Us All Down
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8/17/09

5 rounds for time:
5 deadlift, 275lb (185lb)
10 burpee

"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."
- Willa Cather

Can Running Help Your Knees?
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8/16/09

REST DAY / MAKE-UP WOD / SKILL WORK

"We keep going back, stronger, not weaker, because we will not allow rejection to beat us down. It will only strengthen our resolve. To be successful there is no other way."
- Earl G. Graves

CrossFit Kids Windy City - today at 9am sharp

Honey
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8/15/09

TEAM WORKOUT - for time:

Dr. Cake's Saturday Surprise - show up to find out the WOD

"A True Warrior Never Fights Without a Purpose That is Greater Than Oneself."
- T. Harv Eker

Over-Use Injuries & Muscle Imbalances
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KG post Terrible Tuesday WOD

8/14/09

7 rounds for time:
3 push jerks, 155lb (105lb)
6 pull-ups
9 box jumps, 24"

"When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter, either. Then willpower will be no problem."
- Emil Zatopek

Weightlifting Helps Breast Cancer Survivors
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8/13/09

REST DAY / MAKE-UP WOD / SKILL WORK

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure . . . than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt

Have you set a PR yet this month???  We're only 13 days into August, yet check out all the PRs that have already been set this month!  Check it HERE

Cult
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Wednesday 4:30pm earning their REST DAY

8/12/09

Back Squat 3-3-3
Back Squat 1-1-1

"Excess, upon occasion can be exhilarating, because it prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."
- Somerset Maugham

Barry Sears IS Paleo
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Have you signed-up and joined the WCCF team for Fight Gone Bad IV?  Go HERE, search for team Windy City CrossFit, and join the us.  September 26th @ WCCF.

 

Results (AM Session):

Jacob                275             315(f), 315(f), 295
Sullivan             165             185
TD                     185             225
Melissa              145             165
Poper                 75               85
Josue                225              245
JJ                     125              145
Garcia               255              285
Casey                115              155
KG                     220              240
Big Bill              135              155
Lisa                    65                85
Coop                   65               75
J. Marcis            225              255, 260(f), 260(f)