CrossFit Eastvale

Rest Day 10/1/07

"Weight Gazing"

You've seen the weight gazers on the floor. They're the ones in the middle of a kickass Fran or a raging FGB who feel the need to pause and assess the apparatus they've just spent hard won reps lifting, pulling, or slamming. Why? Because they have fallen into the mental trap of weight gazing. Most commonly they're just coming off a metabolically demanding exercise, and they spend valuable moments pausing before engaging a strength component. In our Fran example, the gazer comes off the pull up bar and stops for 10-30 seconds before starting to negotiate the Thruster. Instead, our intrepid Crossfitter should grasp the bar immediately and crank out as many reps as possible, even if it's only one or two, to break the psychological pause of moving from one exercise to another. Once that positive feedback cycle of exercise / progress / exercise has resumed the athlete can start to accurately assess his or her rest needs. The trap of weight gazing is almost exclusively mental - of course we're tired, but we make negligible metabolic recovery by abstaining from that first rep.

We've often times heard Jerry say "Rest Smart" - take three to five deep breaths and fire it up again. Utilize this technique and see valuable seconds recovered, intensity retained, and inevitable improvement achieved.

WOD 9/30/07

Deadlift 1-1-1-1-1-1-1 reps

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WOD 9/29/07

In any order, 50 reps of:

SDHP
Squats
Burpees
Ball Slams
Sit ups
Jumping Pullups
Double Unders
Box Jumps
Pushpress
Lunges

WOD 9/28/07

10K run

Rest Day 9/27/07

WOD 9/26/07

Five rounds for time of:
95 pound Sumo deadlift high-pull, 15 reps
95 pound Thruster, 15 reps

WOD 9/25/07

"Michael"

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

WOD 9/25/07

30 Muscle-ups for time

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If you cannot do the muscle-ups do 120 pull-ups and 120 dips.

New Location!!!!!!!!!!

Beginning Saturday (9/22/07) regular sessions will be held at Brian Warren's Unbreakable Gym (1249 E Lynwood Dr San Bernardino, CA). From Redlands, take 30 Fwy West and exit Del Rosa. Go North on Del Rosa and take a left on Lynwood. The Gym will be the South side of Lynwood. It shares a parking lot with Sports Page Bar. Call me if you have any questions (760) 902-0542. If you guys get an opportunity, please thank Brian personally for inviting us to train at his gym.

Rest Day 9/23/07

New Location!!!!!!!!!!

Beginning Saturday (9/22/07) regular sessions will be held at Brian Warren's Unbreakable Gym (1249 E Lynwood Dr San Bernardino, CA). From Redlands, take 30 Fwy West and exit Del Rosa. Go North on Del Rosa and take a left on Lynwood. The Gym will be the South side of Lynwood. It shares a parking lot with Sports Page Bar. Call me if you have any questions (760) 902-0542. If you guys get an opportunity, please thank Brian personally for inviting us to train at his gym.