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Nice relaxed day of Crossfit today. It was great to set two new personal bests: 

I increased my front squat max from 190lbs to 215lbs. 
I increased my consecutive pull ups to 32. This is what a pull up at Crossfit looks like:
 

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This is Fran, the grandmother of all Crossfit killer workouts: 

21 95lb Thrusters
21 Pull ups
15 Thrusters
15 Pull ups
9 Thrusters
9 Pull ups

After this work out you can eat a cow. And a chicken. My friend Brad describes Fran adeptly: 

“Fran” is a lot like an after school fight with a tough kid. You don’t really wanna go, but you [...]

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Short answer… a lot. Check out why.

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The Georgia Straight’s MindBodySoul quarterly Fall 2007 issue has a two page feature on Crossfit in Vancouver. It’s good to see the guys and gals get some media exposure.
I extracted the article for easy consumption. The original full PDF is available here: http://www.straight.com/files/pdf/MBS09.pdf.
Edit: Web article here.
[tags]crossfit[/tags]

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A few days ago a friend of mine was asking me what happened to all my Crossfit updates. Well I’m still going strong. I’ve finished the individual private classes a few months ago and have really been enjoying the group classes. It has been about 5 or 6 months since I joined Crossfit.
I was [...]

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