Month: August 2018

The CFV OG Supplement: Week of 08.20.18

OG #1:  Five rounds not for time of – 5 archer rows (5 with each arm, so 10 total per round; Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g8CM9pV4X410 seated dumbbell press (Sit on your pompis & strict press; you pick the weight – make it challenging) OG #2:  Back squat (At 70% of your max weight)…with 5-second pause at the bottom! 3-3-3-3-3  (That’s…

The Push-Up

Casually glossed over as rudimentary, the push-up is a movement vastly underappreciated and ill-performed to the detriment of us all. The push-up is without question the building block for all pressing movements and in one of the early CrossFit Journal articles written by Coach Glassman himself, you can see that developing true push-up/bodyweight pressing strength…

The Snatch

What may be the most troublesome and frustrating movement we do is equally the most beneficial to your overall fitness. The snatch is without peer in its’ benefit to improve strength, power, flexibility, speed, stamina, coordination, accuracy, agility, and balance. You could say the only aspect of fitness it does not improve is cardio respiratory…