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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.
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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 [...]

Before I dive into today’s workout let me catch you up on Workout #14. In my my last work out I mentioned that if I don’t blog by Tuesday, I died. My trainer must have read that because when I showed up today he tried to kill me. :)
Anyways, workout #14 first:

Warm up: Knees to [...]

This was yesterday’s Crossfit Workout:

Warm up: 50 DBalls. Essentially, 20lb medicine ball, raise it high above your head slam it down and pick it up. Repeat. Like 50 full body squats.
Technique: Squat Therapy. You’d think doing a squat would be easy, but it takes a long time to perfect the squat. Here’s a video of [...]

I shall introduce this with well earned bruises:

How does one get bruises on their collar bone from working out? By having a sadistic trainer that makes them do a lot of push presses. I’m not complaining. After the work out I felt great. Tired but great. Intense exercise that pushes you past your limit, when [...]