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Jeff & Kosta on ABC7 News this morning
Friday, July 16th, 2010Official Santa Training Facility
Thursday, December 24th, 2009I 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.
Lumberjack 20
Saturday, December 5th, 2009“Lumberjack 20″
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
Front Squats
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009Front Squat 3-3-3-3-3 reps
Elizabeth
Thursday, November 19th, 2009Complete 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.
Fix Yourself
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009UPDATE: The National Academy of Sports Medicine has approved this course for 1.6 CEU’s. I know other certifying bodies (such as ACSM) will recognize these credits, as well. If you’re a professional trainer looking for some continuing education, this is a great opportunity!
Join us for a 2 day comprehensive SMR clinic February 27th and 28th. We will work every body part and you will find tight muscle you never knew existed. The course includes several hundred dollars worth of the best myofacial release/trigger point tools on the market. You can continue to work on yourself at home.
Part of successful long term fitness is managing the quality of your own soft tissue. Self Myofacial Release (SMR) is an exceptional way to handle your own business.
Davis’s Law: tight muscles stay tight, and weak muscles stay weak. Soft tissue models along lines of stress. In other words your body is not going to correct itself. If your hip flexors are tight and your ass is weak, the tilt in your pelvis will not get any better until you address the issues.
Start the New Year out with a more efficient body. If you are training with resistance in your own body, you are doing twice the work than you need to perform exercises. You are fighting against yourself!
Space is limited so sign up before the class is closed.
SMR Points
A Community of Fitness
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Re-Active gym moves into it’s third home after starting out in Paul’s garage.
The Wagon Train
Monday, September 28th, 2009Teams of 4 get 300 pounds of weight including a Prowler and a sled. The teams must move the weight a 1/4 mile as quickly as possible. Any weight not pushed or dragged on the Prowler or Sled must be carried overhead. 20 Burpees must be competed at the 200 meter mark and at the end of the 1/4 mile.
Groups of 4 race against each other while moving 300 pounds of weight. 20 Burpees at the 200 meters, 20 Burpees at the 1/4 mile.
Overhead Squats
Friday, August 28th, 2009Overhead Squat 1-1-1-1-1-1-1 reps
Practicing overhead squats.
David from South Brooklyn came by on our Abbot & Costello day a month back. Read his post here.
Single Leg Overhead Squat
Single Leg Squat 2
CrossFit Olympic Weightlifting Certification – Pleasanton
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009Crossfit Pleasanton hosts a CrossFit Olympic Weightlifting Certification on April 10th & 11th of 2010. These certifications sell out quick.
Start and end time: 9 am to 5 pm each day with a 1 hour lunch break.
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.
