CrossFit Exercises

I found this article by Greg Everett from Catalyst Athletics about squatting stance quite interesting, so I thought I would share it with you… With the Olympic lifts, it’s easy to wander a little too far down the rabbit hole and find yourself lost amid overwhelming detail. There are times when such detail is necessary […]

Girls doing weighted pullups from The RX Review Have you seen the most recent article on pullups? New York Times and the Globe and mail are claiming that Woman are not built to be able to do pullups and it doesn’t matter what kind of training they do. Do we agree? HELL NO!!!! Here is

Old school photo of Annie Sakamoto doing a swing Have you check out the most recent purchase at the gym?  We purchased some insanely heavy bells.  We don;t want that money to go to waste so the skill of the month is Kettle Bell swings!  We will be teaching you how to swing the bells

If you know better, you can DO better.  (image courtesy of AMP90) If you remember back to technique week, we talked a TON about using your breathing and torque to help provide your body with extra support during your lifts. During the recent London 2012 Olympics, CTV featured various sports science segments, hosted by Dr.

The true test is, can you do a pistol and eat cake at the same time like Beast? Mobility Goat month is over…. but that does not mean that you don’t need to spend time mobilizing and working on your goat.  Mobility is very important to help you get into a safe position and to

Photo from  Caragh Camera Last day of the technique week!  You don’t want to miss out today because it is going to be a good one! We will be breaking down the snatch and the clean in to significant detail at each stage of the movement as much as possible in 60 minutes! Check out

Brian and Chris at a Pose Seminar we hosted Second to last day of our technique week!  We will be focusing on the metabolic conditioning movements running, rowing and double unders.  You will be surprised at how much technique goes into each of these exercises.  Make sure to bring in your skipping rope adjusted to

Bones being supported in a handstand – old school photo Time to play around with some movements that everyone loves…. Gymnastics!  Just like all the lifts, gymnastics requires lots of core strength too.   There are so many gymnastics movements, so it will be up to the specific coach and class to decide what they

Moving on to the upper body… we will be going over the shoulder press, push press, push jerk as well as the push-up. Check out the older posts that talk about some sort of pressing: https://crossfitzonex.com/thrust-it/ https://crossfitzonex.com/being-a-jerk/ https://crossfitzonex.com/the-missing-link/ https://crossfitzonex.com/shoulder-assessment-part-2/   Check out the video from K-Star that we posted on Monday if you have not

Day two of technique week is deadlifts!  Come learn how to deadlift safely and learn some mobility exercises that will help you get into a better pulling position. We will also be working on the sumo deadlift, sumo deadlift high pull and kettlebell swings Check out previous posts on Deadlifts: https://crossfitzonex.com/the-dead-truth/ https://crossfitzonex.com/hips-shrug-high-pull/ https://crossfitzonex.com/your-form-sucks/ https://crossfitzonex.com/swingers/