Author Archive for MarkFu

Back Squats 5×3

The back squats are one of my favorite lifts and I enjoy the pace

Fight Gone Bad

Tweet Almost did not make it over to the House of Pain today, but I rallied and showed up just in time to do one of the famous benchmark WODs called Fight Gone Bad. Here is a description from the…

Deadlifts, 5X5

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z_JtARaC9Lc

Tweet Ok, well that dude wasn’t with Steve, Brent and I today with his bar-bending 804# deadlift, but we hoisted some lbs. Stepping out into the chilly 39 degree air, I was ready to have some fun. We did our…

Supplements For Athletics

Through the years, I have tried and used many different types of sports supplements to enhance performance.

Valley CF Kettlebell Seminar

Tweet As if we did not have enought Crossfit for a Saturday, most of us who did “Steve” this morning took a drive up to Valley Crossfit, which is run and hosted today by Michael Latch.  We had a great…

Seals PT a.k.a. “Steve”

Steve put together a great workout reminiscient of his days in the Teams. We did an hour of bodyweight exercises, heavy on the pushups.

“Michael”, for the 4th Time

Tweet This is a very strenuous, yet somehow fun WOD. The trouble is, that the last 3 times I have done this, my times were about 2 minutes slower than the previous. I started at 22+ minutes and got slower…

More Hang Squat Cleans

Tweet In the effort to get Brent and I prepared to represent (well) at the Crossfit Certification in Irvine next month, Steve and Denise will be coaching us for excellent form on several things. One of those is the Hang…

“Snellen”

Tweet   Showed up this morning with less than ideal energy and that lasted throghout this WOD today. Snellen consists of 3 rounds, for time of: 400 m run25-22# snatches (practicing form) 42 jumpng pull-ups (tired of these. I have…