Blowout

MuscleDriver still has both 25lb Kraiburgs AND Do Wins listed as 'blowout' sales.

Deadliftin in the Garage

Decided to do a little retest of my max DL.

Starting a program built around DL's, Power Snatches and LOTS of Push Pressin'.

Got the Power Snatch up to a wopping 137lbs. Push Press is good at about 150lbs, and now the Deadlift...

Retest DL 1RM from Full Circle on Vimeo.

Flying off to Austin in a few hours

Probably won't be posting anything for a few days

hope everyone has a good time!

Trying out the Squat Jerk

Experimenting with the Squat Jerk


Jason's First Squat Jerks from Full Circle on Vimeo.

Pull Up Bars

The sweetest.

Filling out the Box

some more recent pics

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Hitting a new Pull Up PR

Crossfit Full Circle's WOD today;

Max Pull ups

here's my best set


Coach Jason hitting 26 Kipping Pull Ups from Full Circle on Vimeo.

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Olympic Lifting Seminar this weekend

This weekend,
Crossfit RVA will host Chris Wilkes again for another Olympic Lifting seminar.

http://www.crossfitrva.com/545/olympic-weightlifting-seminar-with-chris-wilkes/

I went to the first one of these, it was excellent. If you are new or fairly new to the lifts, this is a great way to get started. You will learn the legit assistance lifts, the right way, from the beginning.

You'll also likely see some of the Wilkes boys lift some crazy weight.

I mean crazy weight.

Crossfit Full Circle 1st WOD

Full Circle's
first WOD

Crossfit Full Circle

Crossfit Lakeside

Newer Crossfit in Richmond

Headquarters has tentatively accepted our affiliation request!

We have a few more pieces of paperwork to get straight, but look for group classes to start soon!

I will be offering small Crossfit group classes about 20-25 hours a week, Monday through Saturday, mornings and evenings.

We are still figuring out exact prices and ordering equipment, but we hope to get started in September!

CROSSFIT FULL CIRCLE IS COMING SOON

New Crossfit in town

Welcome Crossfit Swift to the neighborhood.

I don't personally know Jen or (?) her partner, but I have corresponded with her via e-mail.

http://www.crossfitswift.com/2008/08/we-are-finally-ready-to-hold-first.html

they seem pretty nice!

It looks like they were ready to set up shop, but got jilted at the last second. Now they are beginning to conduct workouts in their clients' backyards. If you check out the rest of their webpage, you'll see some pictures. Looks pretty great. They will be out in the Short Pump neighborhood from what I understand, so if you're way out West, why don't you look em up.

Stay tuned for Mark Pushinsky (Big Mark) and I to offer Crossfit classes a little closer to the city in the West End in the early Fall. We'll be starting off with the garage gym set up, non-traditional, as is the local tradition in Richmond!

Chuggin along

OHS for Reps Progress; 6 sets of 9 with 115lbs... that's 6210 pounds, in about 16 minutes. ~388lbs/min.

Friday calls for 10 sets of 8. That will be about 9200 pounds. Probably take about 90 seconds rest between sets, so I am guessing it will take about 23 minutes. It's about 400lbs/min.

There will be two more workouts, slightly less total volume, to taper up for another test next Friday. That will hopefully surpass 21 reps, and it will be time to start training with 135lbs.

I've also been working on building up the volume on the kipping pull ups following the same progression. The longest workouts have been 12 sets of 5 reps, or 60 in one sitting. That took about 20 minutes to finish, so not too earth shattering yet. There will be a retest coming up there as well.

More thoughts on Squat

Here's some perspective...

a competitive (amateur) bodybuilder and FireFighter attempts to beat Nicole at HER game.



I don't want to be too critical, but notice his ROM... depth is much higher than Nicole's, his knees don't track over his feet... at the first clip (certification) he does 11 (terrible) squats with 95lbs, at a bodyweight > 200lbs. I've seen another like this where Nicole does about 24 to beat her opponent. He's not even doing the same amount of work as she is because his depth is so shallow! Humbling it is!

Later, it shows the 'new and improved' Jesse hitting several reps at 135lbs. He claims his current max is 15 reps with the 135. Not bad!

3-19-2008: Jason Struck (159lbs) tests up with the 115lb OHS. Result: 13reps.

See you in 2 Weeks!