I got a call from Santa’s Executive Admin Elf, Festivis, last February looking for some help with Santa’s conditioning during the off season. Apparently, after the Holidays, Santa has a problem keeping on his size.
I immediately put Santa on a 10,000 cal diet and started busting the fat man’s butt.
Santa explained that he had once slipped off a snow covered roof and was stuck hanging on the rain gutter. So we had him do dead hang pull-ups.
Near dawn, after a long night of distributing presents, Santa sometimes has a hard time getting his Jelly Belly up the chimney. Nothing 10 rope ascents wont cure.
Santa wasn’t ready for all the successive rope climbs and tossed his cookies. Dismayed that he lost 200 important calories, I had him chill out for a bit and spot me in the squat rack.
Even fatigued from a grueling workout Santa still manages to pull a Millennium Falcon out of his bag.
Project Santa was a success. Even while increasing work capacity through broad time and modal domains, Santa proved that it is possible to put on 30 pounds of crucial belly fat if you eat 10,000 cals of cookies & spiked hot cocoa every day.
Merry Christmas from Santa Clause’s exclusive workout center: Re-Active Gym/CrossFit Pleasanton.
20 Deadlifts (275lbs)
Run 400m
20 KB swings (2pood)
Run 400m
20 Overhead Squats (115lbs)
Run 400m
20 Burpees
Run 400m
20 Pullups (Chest to Bar)
Run 400m
20 Box jumps (24″)
Run 400m
20 DB Squat Cleans (45lbs each)
Run 400m
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Some of the ladies at Re-Active gym do kipping pull-ups and modified pull-ups on a Saturday morning
Complete 21-15-9 reps for time of:
Squat Cleans, (M:135#/W:95#)
Ring Dips
Can't keep the Old Bull down
Ray talks about his physical come back at Re-Active Gym after major intestinal surgery. Today Ray (54 years old) can do 100 pull-ups and 100 push-ups in one workout.
Meals: On your own.
Other:Â Social gathering and dinner on Saturday night.
J-Dub Overhead
Spend two full days with Mike Burgener’s CrossFit Coaches Josh Everett, Stephane Rochet and Shane Hamman learning, studying and practicing the Olympic lifts. The snatch and clean and jerk bring speed, power, coordination, agility, accuracy and balance to your strength training. These lifts are indispensable to CrossFit programming and expert coaching is a powerful advantage.
Rob Pulls
Josh has been the Head Strength & Conditioning Coach at the University of California Riverside since 2001. Prior to that he served as an Assistant Strength Coach at UCLA & Ohio University. Josh is a competitive weightlifter who has trained under the tutelage of Crossfit Coach Mike Burgener since 1999. During this time Josh has qualified for and competed in 3 U.S. National championship meets placing as high as 9th place in the 85k weight class. In addition to his Collegiate coaching and competitive weightlifting Josh is also deeply involved in the CrossFit community. He serves frequently as an instructor at Crossfit level 1 certs and as a CrossFit athlete has twice finished in the top 3 at the CrossFit Games.
Amadeo Jerk
Stephane Rochet has spent 10 years learning the Olympic lifts from Coach Burgener. Rochet is the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at the University of San Diego, where he oversees the strength training of 450 student-athletes in a high level collegiate program. The lessons learned at “Mike’s Gym” are passed on to these elite athletes every day, with outstanding results.
Shane competed in the sport of weightlifting from 1996 – 2005. He won all 9 national championships and competed in 2 Olympics (2000, 2004). Shane holds all of the American records in the 105+ weight class as well as 3 world records in the sport of powerlifting including a 1008 pound squat. Shane is the weightlifting coach for CrossFit OKC and has a passion for teaching the Olympic lifts.
Members from Re-Active Gym and Crossfit Pleasanton competed in the San Jose Muddy Buddy on June 7th, 2009. Team Sandbagger lost their chain 100 yards into the race and ran the rest of the 6 miles. Team Comerford (AKA Varacious Raptors on Red Bull) came in 12th. Team Ferree, the instigators, ended with a dirty coed tackle into the mud pit. Viva Mud! Team Dirty Birdy was a no show, but they probably would have won the whole thing. Next year, let’s get 10 or more teams.
San Jose Muddy Buddy Re-Active Gym Group Challenge
Since the new gym facility scheduled to be constructed at Amador High School was scrapped by the school district, there was a need to come up with a plan to use the space and money Amador had available to get functional training equipment into the school’s athletic programs.
Re-Active Gym and Opti-Fit teamed up with Coach Scarpelli to help bring forth a plan for new functional lifting equipment to Amador. The new functional lifting stations each contain olympic bars, bumper plates, pull-up bars, dip station, super benches, & squat rack. The imagination is the only limit to the lifting combinations that can be performed with the new equipment. Older space intensive machines were donated to the boys club in Hayward. Get some!
