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Kids & Teens Training Program

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[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output]Hey everyone!

Want to get your kids involved in a training program this Winter? Our Kids & Teens Training program can be a great base for kids to carry them into other sports as well as developing discipline in life and lessons in staying fit and healthy throughout their lives.

Wednesday December 2nd launches the start of the Kids and Teens program at CrossFit South Bend, and we want YOU to come out with your kids and try a free class![/text_output][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/3″][accordion id=”” class=”” style=””][accordion_item open=”true” parent_id=”” title=”Sign me up!” id=”” class=”” style=””]






 

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[/accordion_item][/accordion][/vc_column][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/3″][accordion id=”” class=”” style=””][accordion_item open=”true” parent_id=”” title=”Welcome Week Schedule” id=”” class=”” style=””]We will have a Free class for kids ages 5-9

 

Wednesday December 2nd from 5:30 – 6:15pm

Saturday December 5th from 10:00 – 10:45am

 

and a Free class for kids ages 10-17

 

Wednesday December 2nd from 6:30 – 7:30pm

Saturday December 5th from 11:00 – 12:00pm[/accordion_item][/accordion][/vc_column][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/3″][accordion id=”” class=”” style=””][accordion_item open=”true” parent_id=”” title=”Have Questions?” id=”” class=”” style=””]Want to learn more? Click here to head to the page for our Frequently Asked Questions!

or just drop us a line below

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Programming Week 9 of 9 / 11.2.15 – 11.8.15

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[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][accordion][accordion_item title=”Whats going on at CrossFit South Bend?” parent_id=”” id=”” class=”” style=””]Whats going on right now at CFSB?

Super Awesome!! Free Wod Tracking Software for CFSB Members! Train Heroic is LIVE – download it now!

CFSB Wellness Wednesday – How to cook duck preview

Swag! The shirts are back in stock, we sold out quick, come get them!

Events: Wades Army 2015

Events: Wod with Warriors Nov 7th

Clinic: 60 Minute Rowing Clinic with Kendra Rask – November 12th

Getting Started! November Fundamentals Details are up!

Also: If you have the Flu…

Fundraisers: “One Dime at a Time Fundraiser” – Saint Joseph Health System

Our WIFI: Hey all, new wifi settings for “CFSB Public” If you want to use our wifi, when you connect it will ask you to check into Facebook to use it!

[/accordion_item][accordion_item title=”Monday 11.2.15″ parent_id=”” id=”” class=”” style=””]Monday 11.2.15

A. Preparing for Next Weeks 1rm’s

Bench Press

50% x 4

60% x 4

70% x 2

80% x 1

85% x 1

90% x 1

***If you are fresh out of fundamentals ( <–nsfw). perform a 3rm and leave a little in the tank.

In between some of your warm up sets, accumulate 3×12 Reverse Snow angels

B. Olympic Weightlifting Practice

Power Clean + Shoulder to Overhead + Practice lowering to back

 

C. Conditioning

5 Rounds

12 Barbell Lunges

12 Clapping Push Ups

50 Yard Shuttle Run


 

Notes:

For the Bench Press, there should be no fails today. This is meant to prime you up and get you prepared to hit a 1rm next week.

The workout? You’ll pull that barbell from the floor, so you may be limited on how much you can clean from the floor.

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A. Olympic Weightlifting Skill Work

10 Minutes Burgener Warm Up

3 Position Snatch Skill Work – Hip, Top of Knee, Floor

 

B. Olympic Weightlifting

Every 90 Seconds for 6 Rounds, perform a 3 Position Snatch

 

C. Conditioning

In teams of 3 complete 12 rounds of the following:

30yd Plate Push (15yd out and back)

15 Ball Slams 40/30

12 Russian Kettlebell Swings 70/55

There will be a 3 person rotation where each team member will complete a full round, before tagging in the next team member. Each team member will complete 4 rounds, totaling 12 for the whole team


 

Notes: Keep the complex clean, don’t push the weight to sacrifice the technique of the lift.[/accordion_item][accordion_item title=”Wednesday 11.4.15″ parent_id=”” id=”” class=”” style=””]Wednesday 11.4.15

A. Iso Holds

3 Rounds

Max L-Sit Hold
Max Top of the Pull Up Hold
Max Wall Facing Handstand Hold

B. Conditioning

5 Rounds

3 minute AMRAP

3 Burpees

6 Medicine Ball Cleans 40/30

12 Double Unders

1 minute rest

Notes: You know what to do for the Iso holds, for the conditioning, think of this as a 19 minute amrap with interrupted 1 minute rests every 3 minutes.[/accordion_item][accordion_item title=”Thursday 11.5.15″ parent_id=”” id=”” class=”” style=””]Thursday 11.5.15

A.

A. Preparing for Next Weeks 1rm’s

Back Squat

50% x 4

60% x 4

70% x 2

80% x 1

85% x 1

90% x 1

Note: Just finished fundamentals? perform a 3rm and leave a little in the tank.

B. Conditioning

800m Run

then perform…

3 Rounds

10 Toes to Bar

10 Shoulder to Overhead 135/95

11 minute cap[/accordion_item][accordion_item title=”Friday 11.6.15″ parent_id=”” id=”” class=”” style=””]Friday 11.6.15

A.

Overhead Squats 3.3.3.3.3.3

Every 2:30, perform a triple on an Overhead Squat, build to a heavy 3.

**In between 3 of your sets, accumulate 3×12 reverse snow angels

B. Conditioning

In teams of 3 at the top of every 2 minutes perform:

250m Row

Max Power Cleans in the time remaining with 155/105

There will be a 3 person rotation where each team member will complete a full 2 minute round, before tagging in the next team member. Each team member will complete 3x 2:00 minute AMRAPS, totaling 9 for the whole team[/accordion_item][accordion_item title=”Saturday 11.7.15 Wod with Warriors” parent_id=”” id=”” class=”” style=””]Saturday 11.7.15

Wod with Warriors

The WOD: “ARMISTICE”

9 minute AMRAP
100-meter sprint
11 sit-ups
11 air squats
100-meter sprint
22 sit-ups
22 air squats
100-meter sprint
33 sit-ups
33 air squats

*add 11 to the sit-ups and air squats for each additional round

2-minute rest and reflection followed by 9 minute AMRAP

100-meter sprint
11 pushups
11 box jumps (RX 24”/20”)
100-meter sprint
22 pushups
22 box jumps (RX 24”/20”)
100-meter sprint
33 pushups
33 box jumps (RX 24”/20”)

*add 11 to the pushups and box jumps for each round

[/accordion_item][accordion_item title=”Sunday 11.8.15″ parent_id=”” id=”” class=”” style=””]Sunday 11.8.15

A.

“Camille”

8 Minute amrap

3 Snatch Complexes

3 Wall Climbs

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“One dime at a time” with Saint Joseph Health System

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Hey everyone! Saint Joe has been selected for the “One Dime at a Time” fundraiser which will benefit the Sister Maura Brannick, CSC Health Center (a center that provides care to uninsured and underinsured members of the community). You don’t have to do anything crazy, just bring in your own bag every time you go shopping at whole foods these next few months until December 31st! Its THAT Simple!

Train Heroic Fix Updates

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Hey all you athletes that are having problems with Train Heroic currently, we are getting things all fixed up.

 

  1. If you haven’t already subscribed to train heroic, here is the link!  When you go to subscribe, instead of clicking “sign up with facebook, or sign up with front desk” simply just make a new username and password. Boom, its just that simple.
  2. From there, you can link your accounts together by checking this sweet little thing about Linking your accounts. It takes like 2 seconds.

But, I already have an account, and I can’t see the workouts.

Sign in, then go back to the link, then click the link!

Just like anything computer related starting up, there are a few glitches here and there, Train Heroic is pretty fast to fix them all, so email us and let me know whats happening so I can forward it to the Train Heroic team in bulk.

Supporting your wrists for CrossFit

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[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/2″][image src=”13264″ alt=”” href=”” title=”” info_content=”” lightbox_caption=”” id=”” class=”” style=””][/vc_column][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/2″][text_output]Lets talk about wrist support for CrossFit.

Now that CrossFit has gone pretty mainstream, if you google “wrist wraps” – you won’t find any shortage of every person in the world trying to get in on the CrossFit product game with  their own variation of a product. When you have a lot of weight on the bar, it tends to pull the wrist into a great amount of extension, the purpose of a wrist wrap is to provide support to the wrist during a pressing movement, or when the arm is in flexion and external rotation like the rack position – by limiting the extension of the wrist.

Here are a few things to remember.

1.Don’t isolate the wrist to get around a mobility issue.

I see people grabbing their wrists after a clean, or during wrist supports in discomfort. Wrapping your wrists to move around a mobility issue is treating the symptom, not the source of the problem. Now treating the symptom and the source can be done in conjunction with one another, but don’t ignore the source of your problem, which is more than likely poor mobility in your shoulders, extension in thoracic, forearms, and wrist flexibility. Wrist wraps also block the wrist, and will more than likely demand greater flexibility from the shoulders. So either work on some front rack mobility or some wrist mobility, or a little bit of both.

Front Rack and Wrist mobility

2. Warm up without your wrist wraps.

Warm up without them and allow your wrists to get into that full extension and flexion, wrapping your wrists up all of the time will more than likely encourage stiffening your range of motion, so that when you do take them offer, you’ll further damage them. You don’t need wrists wraps to move the bar, if you do, and if it hurts that bad that you have to use wrist wraps during a warm up – refer to the next one.

3. If it hurts, don’t do it, or pull it back.

Be smart, if it hurts.

Ask a coach – Come up with a plan on how to fix it, and stick to it.

Don’t do the movement – let it rest, substitute something different

Lower the weight – If it hurts, pull it back until its feeling better

Do mobility – I don’t feel sorry for you if you don’t do anything to fix the problem.

Get them checked out – If you are concerned about them, go get a medical professional to check them out.

4. Learn how to use them appropriately.

Take a look at the image provided, this gives you a good idea of some of the wrist wraps out there and how to use them. Make sure  you use the wraps correctly and for their intended purpose.

 

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Barbells For Boobs Wrap Up

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Hey all,

Just wanted to send out a huge thank you for participating in this years Barbells For Boobs, we originally set our goal to $1000 and you all were quick to help us shoot past that, we raised the bar again to $1500 and wound up finishing up at $1525. Thank you all for all of your hard work and support!

Click here to check out the finale of our donation page!

Click here to friend us on facebook and check out the pictures!

Announcement – Free Train Heroic App For Our Members

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Hey everyone!

We would like to announce the launch of a new App for CrossFit South Bend members – Train Heroic.

 

What is Train Heroic?

Train Heroic is a workout logging system, Click here to check out some of the features.

What platform can I use Train Heroic on?

You can use this app a few different ways.

  1. Use the Train Heroic iPhone App here
  2. Use the Android App here
  3. Use the browser friendly version here

What does is cost to CFSB Members? 

Nothing! It’s Free

What is it for?

Currently, its for tracking our general CrossFit programming, we will expand it to our other streams of programming and let you know when those get launched!

How do I get an invite?

We have sent you all an invite to the email address you have on file with us through your FrontDesk Account

OR

Click here to subscribe.

I haven’t set up my Front Desk Account

Well, click this link to sign up, use the email address you most frequently check, and sign up!

Didn’t get the Train Heroic invite email? 

Step 1. Make sure the email you have on file for us is correct

Step 2. Just click here and put your name and email in and we will get another invite out to you.

When does the programming for the following week get published?

We publish the programming weekly on Train Heroic for you to see whats coming ahead of time to be able to prepare your week.

We publish it on Friday nights, and the programming shows the following Monday – Sunday

 

 

 

Programming Week 8 of 9, 10.26.15 – 11.1.15

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Super Awesome!! Free Wod Tracking Software for CFSB Members! Train Heroic is LIVE – download it now!

CFSB Member Stories: Making my back squat scream even screamier – Katelynn M.

Last Weeks Wellness Wednesday: Blood Sugar 101

Events: CFSB Halloween Party Details!

Events: Wades Army 2015

Events: Wod with Warriors Nov 7th

Clinic: 60 Minute Rowing Clinic with Kendra Rask – November 12th

Getting Started! November Fundamentals Details are up!

Classes: October Mobility – 4 Week Shoulder Fix

Also: If you have the Flu…

Classes: Mobility Schedule Change

Our WIFI: Hey all, new wifi settings for “CFSB Public” If you want to use our wifi, when you connect it will ask you to check into Facebook to use it!

Hold up for even NEWER stuff coming next week![/accordion_item][accordion_item title=”Monday 10.26.15 – Train Heroic Goes Live Today for the members!” parent_id=”” id=”” class=”” style=””]Monday 10.26.15  – Train Heroic Goes Live Today for the members, download it now!

A.

Squat 3rm

B.

3 Rounds

Max Left Arm Kettlebell Floor Press

Max Right Arm Kettlebell Floor Press

300 Yard Shuttle

Notes:

For the Squat, we want you to beat your pause squat 3rm from 10.5.15, this is NOT a pause today. Find something on the floor press you can get 12-20 reps with from the start.

For the workout, there will be two scores

-Max number of repetitions combined for the floor press

-Track each individual sprint time, score on Train Heroic is slowest sprint time.

You may notice in the video he is demonstrating the floor press with straight legs, we will be having a little stability assistance with the feet.

Also…go hard on all of the runs, max effort, this ain’t that[/accordion_item][accordion_item title=”Tuesday 10.27.15 – November Fundamentals Begins Today!” parent_id=”” id=”” class=”” style=””]Tuesday 10.27.15 – November Fundamentals Begins Today!

A.

15 minutes to establish Snatch 1rm

B.

Amrap in 10 minutes

6 Snatches at 55-65% of your 1rm

12 Pull Ups

24 Doubles

Notes:

If you are within 3 months of finishing the fundamentals, perform a hang power snatch 3rm. If flexibility allows, perform a full snatch.

For the workout, stick within that range, and keep the reps clean.

Double Under scaling will be a 2:1[/accordion_item][accordion_item title=”Wednesday 10.28.15″ parent_id=”” id=”” class=”” style=””]Wednesday 10.28.15

A.

3 Rounds

Max L-Sit Hold
Max Top of the Pull Up Hold
Max Wall Facing Handstand Hold

B.

15 Minute amrap

Teams of 4

Bear Crawls – Two 10 yard down and backs (40 yard total)

Max Cal

Max Plate GTO 45/35

Max Box Step Ups 24/20

Notes:

The workout is man overboard style, with the bear crawl person being the pacesetter, and everyone else moving in conga line fashion through the workout. I could explain it here, but lets just wait until you get into class to deal with that.

score is total reps with your team[/accordion_item][accordion_item title=”Thursday 10.29.15″ parent_id=”” id=”” class=”” style=””]Thursday 10.29.15

“Bear Complex”

5 Rounds

each “round” consists of 7 cycles (35 consecutive reps total) performed unbroken, of the following.

1 Power Clean

1 Front Squat

1 Shoulder to Overhead

1 Back Squat

1 Shoulder to Overhead

dropping the bar before all 35 reps are completed is a failed set

rest as needed between rounds, you can move up, move down, or stay at the same weight. score will be the individual weights lifted for each round.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WOP9J7QPwI[/accordion_item][accordion_item title=”Friday 10.30.15″ parent_id=”” id=”” class=”” style=””]Friday 10.30.15

A.

Every 3 minutes for 5 Rounds

Clean Pull x 3

B.

50 Chin Ups

Every time you break perform 10 Hollow Rocks

15 minute time cap

Notes:

This is a Clean Pull, don’t turn this into a deadlift. Once your lift slows down through the middle, you are done. The coach will decide what an appropriate speed is for you. Want to know how much you should shoot for in this? go to the link, and look at “programming” do a little reading.

Same thing for hollow rocks, keep them clean and we will scale them back as necessary.

Ring Rows will be the sub today for the chin ups[/accordion_item][accordion_item title=”Saturday 10.31.15 – Halloween Workout, and Halloween Party Today!” parent_id=”” id=”” class=”” style=””]Saturday 10.31.15 – Halloween Workout, and Halloween Party Today! Dress up for BOTH events.

Mystery Halloween Workout[/accordion_item][accordion_item title=”Sunday 11.1.15″ parent_id=”” id=”” class=”” style=””]Sunday 11.1.15

13.3

12 Minute amrap
150 Wall Balls
90 Double Unders
30 Muscle Ups

Notes:

compare to 8.29.15, come in with a plan to beat your prior score.[/accordion_item][/accordion][/vc_column][/vc_row]