Paradiso CrossFit WOD Blog

This Could Get Messy

Just an update on the gym, there is a chance we will be training our snatches in the parking lot today.   We should be done with the major renovations

The Metabolic Pathways

CrossFit’s first model of fitness, maximizing physiological adaptation via balance of the Ten General Physical Skills, was explored in our last rest day post.  Today we continue this theme by presenting CrossFit’s

Beyond the White Wall

Complete as many rounds as possible 20 minutes of: 5 Thrusters 7 Hang Powercleans, 10 Sumo Deadlift High-pull Men 95lb Women 65lb This is the perfect workout to work on

Bam!

“Angie” For time: 100 Pull ups 100 Push ups 100 Sit ups 100 Squats   Fresher the better…best Mahi I ever had:)   To continue on the theme of food,

Press Rewind

I get asked regularly how I found this crazy CrossFit shit.  I have to admit that I’m a movie nerd that likes to hunt down the newest movie trailers released

The Ten Skills

In CrossFit’s original and continuing quest to define fitness, three models were postulated to provide working constructs toward meaningful discussion and implementation.  The Ten General Physical Skills stood as the first

Strength

Strength, as an isolated quality, can be defined and measured as the biological contractile potential of muscle–as how hard your muscles can contract to apply force.  This is what body

Ten-Hut

We are going to keep hammering the basics here.  And we are going to keep hammering the fact that we are going to keep hammering the basics.  When is the

Grand Entrance

For all of my loyal readers out there, if you are unaware, I have a rare condition called post from yesterday relates perfectly to todays workout, so please take the

Overhead!

Pressing large loads overhead is essential to developing strength and power, transfers beautifully to useful work outside the gym, and when learned in it’s more explosive forms of the push