Rest Day

Rest Day

WOD

Clean 3-3-3-3-3-3-3 reps

Josh Everett 308lbs. Post loads to comments.

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Austin and power cleans at BU CrossFit.

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"CrossFit Endurance Swimming: 3/4 Swimming Parts 1-2" with Chris Michelmore and Brian Nabeta, CrossFit Journal preview video [wmv] [mov]

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"The Reverse Hyper: Part 1" with Kelly Starrett, CrossFit Journalpreview video [wmv] [mov]

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Highlights from the CrossFit Sports Series Downhill Ski and Board Event - video [wmv] [mov]

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"How to: Drive on a Frozen Lake, Build an Igloo, Heat Your Driveway" by Bob Parks, Wired.

WOD

"Holbrook"

Ten rounds, each for time of:
115 pound Thruster, 5 reps
10 Pull-ups
100 meter Sprint
Rest 1 minute

Josh Everett 0:35-0:46, Kristan Clever 0:41-0:48 (80lbs), Rebecca Voigt 0:49-0:53 (80lbs), Pam Eamranond 0:55-1:31 (80lbs).
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U.S. Army Captain Jason Holbrook, 28, of Burnet, Texas, assigned to 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne), based out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, was killed on July 29th, 2010 in Tsagay, Afghanistan when insurgents attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive device. He is survived by his wife Heather Holbrook and his parents Joan and James Holbrook.

WOD

5 rounds for time of:
10 Hang Power Clean 95lbs
10 Push press with kettle bell 1 pood (5 reps each hand)
10 Dead lift 95lbs
10 Ball slams 30lbs
10 Pull ups
10 Burpees
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"The Home Gym With Pat Sherwood", CrossFit Journal preview video [wmv] [mov]

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"Max 25lb Weighted Pull-ups" with Dave Castro, Dave Lipson, Mikko Salo, Juha Kangasniemi and Christy Phillips - video [wmv] [mov]

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Richard Strauss, Don Quixote with Yo Yo Ma, Part 1 (with interview),Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6.

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Virginia Woolf - The Mark on the Wall.

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"Eight Lessons from the life and work of Jack LaLanne" by Seth Godin.

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"Bureaucracy by Ludwig von Mises (1944) Section 5" by Ludwig von Mises.

WOD

Three rounds for time of:
12 Muscle-ups
75 Squats

Kristan Clever 8:48, Kevin Montoya 9:29, Brandon Pastorek 10:36,Michelle Benedict 13:01.
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Camp Victory, Baghdad, Iraq.

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The CrossFit Games Open begins March 15th!

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"Meet CrossFit Charlotte" with Andy Hendel, CrossFit Journal preview video [wmv] [mov]

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Jason Khalipa at the Team Rogue Vs. Team Again Faster Tahoe Throwdown - video [wmv] [mov]

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"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
- H. L. Mencken

WOD

Three rounds for time of:
275 pound Deadlift, 10 reps
50 Double-unders

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Rest Day

Rest Day

WOD

For time:
21 L-pull-ups
20 One legged squats, alternating legs
18 L-pull-ups
16 One legged squats, alternating legs
15 L-pull-ups
12 One legged squats, alternating legs
12 L-pull-ups
8 One legged squats, alternating legs

Kevin Montoya 9:13, Kristan Clever 13:21, Pam Eamranond 21:56,Rebecca Voigt 27:11.
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Sonja Sarenac, Phoenix, Arizona.

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"Handgun Basics Part 2: Stance, Grip and Firing" with Dave Re, CrossFit Journal preview video [wmv] [mov] and [pdf]

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"Frog Tuck With Jeff Tucker", CrossFit Journal preview video [wmv] [mov]

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Kevin Montoya on today's WOD - video [wmv] [mov]

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"Sanity is not statistical -- Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad."
- Winston Smith, from George Orwell's 1984

WOD

Snatch 1-1-1-1-1-1-1 reps

Jake Rubash 247lbs, Josh Everett 245lbs, Michael Giardina 243lbs,Brandon Pastorek 243lbs, Brandon Phillips 235lbs, Rob Miller 225lbs,Kristan Clever 155lbs, Katie Hogan 155lbs, Rebecca Voigt 120lbs.
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Mike and today's WOD at BU CrossFit.

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"Mikko Salo: Coming to America Part 2", CrossFit Journal preview video [wmv] [mov]

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"Meet EJ", a CrossFit Kid - video [wmv] [mov]

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CrossFit Atlanta on today's WOD - video [wmv] [mov]

Brandon Pastorek on today's WOD - video [wmv] [mov]

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"The U-bend of life: Why, beyond middle age, people get happier as they get older", The Economist.

WOD

As Many Rounds as Possible in 20 minutes

Run 400 m (inside 4 laps around gym)

20 Burpees

6 rep Right 6 reps Left Kettle bell clean and jerks 1 1/2 pood

Post number of rounds completed.

Val enjoying another WOD at BU CrossFit.

Ashwin Natarajan and Chloe, USDAA trial, Tempe, AZ.

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"Andrew Bernstein on Stress: Parts 3-4", CrossFit Journal preview video [wmv] [mov]

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"Yeah Burpees!" with Coach Mike Burgener - video [wmv] [mov]

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Austin Malleolo on today's WOD - video [wmv] [mov]

Brandon Pastorek on today's WOD - video [wmv] [mov]

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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
- James Madison

WOD

Five rounds for time of:

Row 300 meters

10 Thrusters 95 lbs

10 Kettle bells swings 1.5 pood

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Shelby Walkinshaw, Casper, Wyoming.

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"Mike G. Learns to Squat", CrossFit Journal preview video [wmv] [mov]

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Tony Budding reviews the last WOD cycle - video [wmv] [mov]

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Samuel Barber - Violin Concerto 1st movement, 2nd movement, 3rd movement.

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Vladimir Nabokov - The Word.

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"Why Our Best Officers Are Leaving" by Tim Kane, The Atlantic.

WOD

"Elizabeth"

21-15-9 reps of:
Clean 135 pounds
Ring dips

Josh Everett 4:21, Kristan Clever 5:30 (95lbs), Brandon Phillips 5:39,Brandon Pastorek 6:21, Travis Holley 6:30, Lance Cantu 6:34, Candice Ruiz 7:42 (95lbs), Rebecca Voigt 7:58 (95lbs), Katie Hogan 11:45 (95lbs).
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Andy Thompson.

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"A CrossFit Kids Class at CrossFit Brand X" with Mikki Martin, CrossFit Journal preview video [wmv] [mov]

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Caity Matter at the Team Rogue Vs. Team Again Faster Tahoe Throwdown - video [wmv] [mov]

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Brandon Pastorek on today's WOD - video [wmv] [mov]

Lance Cantu and Travis Holley on today's WOD - video [wmv] [mov]

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"If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking"
- Gen. George Patton

Rest Day

Rest Day

WOD

5 rounds for time of:

11 Overhead Squats 95 lbs (from a snatch)

21 Pull ups

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Mike doing Wall Walks, everyone should try this.

"The Sherwood Chronicles: Community Part 3", CrossFit Journalpreview video [wmv] [mov]

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Tony Budding reviews the last WOD cycle - video [wmv] [mov]

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Robert Schumann, Toccata.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - The Musician's Tale; The Saga of King Olaf.

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"Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior" by Amy Chua, The Wall Street Journal.

WOD

Five rounds of:
20 GHD Sit-ups
5 Push jerk

Michelle Kinney 5:52 with 115lbs, Kim Malz 6:41 with 115lbs, Michelle Benedict 7:01 with 105lbs, Kristan Clever 8:55 with 160lbs, Rob Orlando 9:07 with 230lbs, Rebecca Voigt 10:58 with 155lbs.

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Mike hanging around BU CrossFit.

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"CrossFit Endurance Swimming: Hand Lead" with Chris Michelmore andBrian Nabeta, CrossFit Journal preview video [wmv] [mov]

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Mikko Salo on doing 1000 burpees - video [wmv] [mov]

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Michelle Kinney on today's WOD - video [wmv] [mov]

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"A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married."
- H.L. Mencken