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"Fran"
21/15/9
Thrusters
pullups.

Nice to see more and more people doing this as prescribed with either 95 or 65 pounds.

How was your weekend? pt1

Ours was awesome! We travelled over to see Johnny and Helen of Elite 400 CrossFit Northern Ireland, who were hosting the level 1 trainers cert. This qualification is the first stage of becoming a CF trainer, working through the major movements we use in our training, and covers nutrition, programming, scaling, definitions of fitness and virtuosity.
I was exceptionally proud of Chrissie, my fiancee, who'll be taking a more active role in the coaching of our athletes. Neil, a great client of ours, who in a short space of time has progressed rapidly, also did his level 1 to increase his knowledge of CrossFit and will hopefully work with us in the near future.

I dont like.

Some of you may recall I have a fear, possible phobia and general dislike of thrusters. A thruster is a movement entirely unique to CrossFit, it is the combination of a front squat into an overhead press, and is a great test of core strength and hip drive, pushing the weight into the locked out overhead position, with the arm behind the line of the ear, not in front. (this is important, range of movement is a CrossFit standard and needs to be adhered to)
They are uncomfortable, to say the least, however in our training we need to embrace our deficiencies, preparing our fitness so that we can possess a balanced fitness, not primarily focussing on our strengths and favourite bits.

The wod for today was 7 single thrusters, each escalating in weight, I got up to 65kg-Davie has an 80kg as does Karl-so I need to work on these, much as I don't want to.

To follow
Mini Fran
7 thrusters
7 pullups
x 5.