Sharon and Bill are moving. Sadly we are losing Sharon as a member of the TitanFit family. We will miss her.
Best of luck and come visit anytime you find yourself on the West side!
Warm-up
Snatch Assistance Exercises
Workout
Hang Power Snatch
80% of 1RM x2 x5
Then
"Mini" MetCon
Tabata Mash-up
Box Jumps
Push-ups
KB Swings
Sit-ups
Workout
Find a new 1RM for Front Squats
Then
"Mini" MetCon
5x
500mm row with 2:00 reest
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TITANFIT: Wednesday 091223
Workout
Dead Lift
80% of 1RM x5, x4, x3, x2, x1 (Add 5 lbs for each set to your last DL effort)
Mini MetCon
35 - 20 lbs Wall Ball Shots
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TITANFIT: Thursday 091216
Seth with High Pulls and Kelin with Push-Press
BBH Box Jumps
Workout
90% of Friday 090731's effort
x2 x6
"Mini MetCon"
2000m Row Time Trial
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TITANFIT: Monday 090824
Workout
Back Squat
find a new 1RM
THEN
"Mini" MetCon
5x
250m Row
5-Burpees
10-53 lbs KB Swings
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TITANFIT: Wednesday 090701
Workout
OHS - find your 1RM
THEN
"Mini" MetCon
5x
250m Row
5 - Burpees
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TITANFIT: Monday 091005
We have 2 more weeks of Squatober left. Today, however, we are going over head and day after tomorrow, we squat again.
Workout
Press - 1 reps
Push Press - 2 reps
Push Jerk - 3 reps
Yes, that's it...pick a weight, do 1 press, 2 push presses and then 3 push jerks, per round. Work up to failure on your Press.
THEN
"Mini" MetCon
2 rounds of:
500m Row / 400m Run
20 - Box Jumps
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TITANFIT: Tuesday 090922
Workout
Dead Lift
80% of 1RM x5, x4, x3, x2, x1 (add 5 lbs to 090818's effort)
Then Mini Metcon:
5 rounds of:
250 row
5 burpees
10 KB Swings
OR
Workout:
Mini “Trevor”
As a two person team, complete for time:
150 pull-ups
200 push-ups
250 sit-ups
300 squats
Only ONE person on each team working at any given time. Complete all reps of one exercise before moving on to the next one.
Happy Birthday Kurt!
Workout
Back Squats
5x5 @ 74% of 1RM
"Mini" MetCon
4 rounds of
10 - Burpees
10 - WallBall
Tomorrow's WOD is KTF's choice...Heaven help us!
Workout
OHS - find your 1RM
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TITANFIT: Wednesday 070809
THEN
"Mini" MetCon
5x
250m Row
5 - Burpees
06:30 WOD
5x
Body weight bench press
Pull-ups
Body weight back squat
Let's take 3:00 rest between sets, a la "Barbara"...
post total number of reps, per round
Workout
Tabata
TFT / DUTY WOD
Front Squats...your choice
Then "Mini" MetCon
For time:
25 - Wall Ball (Men - 20lbs 10 feet; Women - 20lbs 8 feet)
20 - Push-ups
15 - Double-unders (4 to 1 single unders)
10 - Knees - Elbows
5 - BCTs
Workout
Clean and Jerk
find new 1RM
"Mini" MetCon
3x
400m run
20 - Sit-ups
15 - Pull-ups
10 - Push-ups
Workout
Press
Find a NEW 1RM
Then
"Mini" MetCon
1 rounds of:
500m Row / 400m Run
20 - Box Jumps
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TITANFIT: Monday 090706
Tomorrow Back Squat!
Workout
Hang Power Snatch
80% of 1RM x2 x5
Then "Mini" MetCon
3x
10-KB Swings
10-Ring Push-up
10-Box Jumps
10-Sit-ups
Here's last year's TitanFit FGB (Fight Gone Bad)...
OK gang....
My bad as I have not yet posted info on this year's Fight Gone Bad Fund Raiser...Fight Gone Bad IV takes place on Saturday, September 26, 2009.
The event can take place at Affiliate facilities between 6am and 4pm. The event format is the Fight Gone Bad CrossFit format. In this workout you move from each of five stations after a minute. This is a five-minute round from which a one-minute break is allowed before repeating. The event is in the 3 round format.
The stations are:
Wall-ball: 20 pound ball, 10 ft target. (Reps)
Sumo dead lift high-pull: 75 pounds (Reps)
Box Jump: 20″ box (Reps)
Push-press: 75 pounds (Reps)
Row: calories (Calories)
NOW YOU KNOW! More info on TitanFit's entry soon to come!
Workout
Dead Lift
80% of 1RM x5, x4, x3, x2, x1 (add 5 lbs to 090707's effort)
AFTER
"Mini MetCon"
Tabata Row!
Workout
Work up to:
Clean & Jerk - 80% (of 1RM) x1 x6
THEN
"Mini" MetCon
15-10-5 reps for time:
Pull-ups
Box jump (Tall)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_med_breast_cancer_weightlifting/print
Study: Weightlifting helps breast cancer survivors
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Medical Writer Marilynn Marchione, Ap Medical Writer
Thu Aug 13, 2:08 am ET
Breast cancer survivors have been getting bum advice. For decades, many doctors warned that lifting weights or even heavy groceries could cause painful arm swelling. New research shows that weight training actually helps prevent this problem.
"How many generations of women have been told to avoid lifting heavy objects?" Dr. Eric Winer, breast cancer chief at the Dana-Farber Cancer Center in Boston, lamented after seeing the surprising results of the new study. "Women who were doing the lifting actually had fewer arm problems because they had better muscle tone."
The study was led by Kathryn Schmitz, an exercise scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, and funded by the federal government. Results are in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.
More than 2.4 million Americans are breast cancer survivors, and the study could mean a big difference in their quality of life. Cancer treatment-related arm swelling now appears to be one of many ailments made better by exercise — not worse, Schmitz said.
"Fifty years ago we told people who had a heart attack not to exercise anymore," and people with sore backs to heal with bed rest, Schmitz said. "It was well-meaning advice but it was polar opposite of the truth."
Women who have had radiation to the armpit, or lymph nodes removed to check for cancer, can suffer lymphedema — a buildup of fluids that causes painful and unsightly swelling of the arms or hands.
To avoid it, doctors have advised women to avoid using the affected arm to lift toddlers, carry a heavy purse or scrub floors. Even activities like golf and tennis raised concern.
Women think, "Oh, my God, I need to baby the arm," Schmitz said.
Lifting weights — which boosts mood, muscle mass, bone strength and weight control — was thought to be a bad idea for women prone to lymphedema.
Schmitz challenged that notion with a small study several years ago, finding that weight training did not make lymphedema worse. Her new study is the first one large and long enough to give clear proof that this is so, and even suggests that weightlifting can help.
It involved 141 breast cancer survivors who had suffered lymphedema. Half were told not to change their exercise habits. The rest were given 90-minute weightlifting classes twice a week for 13 weeks at community gyms, mostly YMCAs.
They wore a custom-fitted compression garment on the affected arm and gradually worked up to more challenging weights and repetitions. For the next 39 weeks, they continued these exercises on their own.
The women's arms were measured monthly. After one year, fewer weightlifters had suffered lymphedema flare-ups — 14 percent versus 29 percent of the others. Weightlifters reported fewer symptoms and greater strength. Rates of change in arm size due to swelling were similar in both groups.
"I found it was really very effective. It not only gave me strength and mobility but it improved my balance and coordination," said one participant, Clare Faber, 66, of suburban Philadelphia. "It really does offer women hope."
Another participant, Gay McArthur, 56, of Smithfield, N.J., has continued weightlifting on her own since the study ended.
"When I first got diagnosed with lymphedema, they said I couldn't lift more than five pounds," she said. But weight training caused no problems and has made her feel better, she said.
It also should save money, though the study did not measure this, Wendy Demark-Wahnefried, of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, wrote in an editorial in the medical journal. In the study, the group of weightlifters made only 77 visits to doctors or physical therapists for lymphedema flare-ups versus 195 visits for the others, she noted.
Another part of the study is evaluating whether weight training can prevent a first case of lymphedema in breast cancer survivors; results are expected soon, Schmitz said.
Breast cancer survivors should not rush into weight training — that could trigger problems. Schmitz suggests:
_Have a certified fitness professional teach you how to do the exercises properly.
_Start slow, with a program that gradually progresses.
_Wear a well-fitting compression garment during workouts.
On the Net:
New England Journal: http://www.nejm.org
Lymphedema advice: http://tinyurl.com/l9lgga
Workout
OHS - find your 1RM
THEN
"Mini" MetCon
3x
15 Ring Dips
25 - Double Unders*
Can't do Double Unders? Sub Tuck Jumps of Lateral Hops
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TITANFIT: Tuesday 081028
From "The Mighty Mix"...one of my favorite reads.
http://mightymix.blogspot.com/2009/06/six-tips-for-overhead-squat.html
Six tips for the overhead squat
The Overhead Squat (OHS) sits at the royal round table of the most efficient and rewarding weightlifting exercises. It works the entire body, increases strength, power, flexibility, coordination, and develops postural lean mass, which should be a priority for any intelligent bipedal.
The OHS appears deceptively simple; yet learning it can be very challenging. Even though it is designed, as all the Olympic-style weightlifting exercises are, to put the entire body through its most ergonomically engineered paces, it is nevertheless an unnatural movement. This article is both for the novice and the lifter already performing the lift who seeks some nitty-gritty details on form and technique, to give the thinking lifter some explanation and keys to executing this successfully.
1. Stick your butt out. It goes against everything you've striven for in general decency, but it's going to go out - way out. Focus on moving your backside backwards, away from your mid-line, and then focus on curling your lumbar up into extension, like a scorpion raising its tail. What this does is set your center of gravity, so you don't end up tipping forward or backward. Do it sideways in a mirror and try to keep your knees in line with/in the same plane with your toes; don't allow them to move in front of them.
2. Press into the bar. This is one of the biggest things that can improve your performance. One reason the OHS can be so counter intuitive is that the body wants to move as a unit through the dynamics of physics - in this case gravity - which means that as you descend, the muscle groups involved in keeping the bar raised tend to relax, hold, and depress. So the scapular group try to switch from elevation to depression. The upper traps try to switch from concentric contraction to bigger balance with eccentric, to brace the body to catch the overhead falling weight. Use the cue to be constantly lifting/pushing the weight, never just holding it.
Furthermore, there are far greater instances in work history that a person, if descending with an overhead object, needs to buffet it away in order to keep it from crashing onto oneself, than to catch it and return with it overhead with arms extended. So there is a certain amount of instinctive response and primal muscle memory that must be overcome.
To learn to press into the bar continually, focus on it through auxiliary overhead work - overhead presses, the Jerk Support and Recovery, etc. - whatever exercises you're doing to assist in developing overhead strength. This means focusing on fully contracting every muscle involved in keeping a load overhead, at every moment. Thought cue: be constantly lifting/pushing the weight, never just holding it. This allows more muscles to support the overhead position. It won't look like a shrug, but it will feel like you're trying to perform one.
3. Keep your chest, neck and head up, while bending over. Building on the reasoning above, it's easy to let the chest and head fall slightly forward on the way up. Actively focus on keeping these up throughout the movement, especially when hitting bottom and beginning ascent. Fix your eyes on something straight ahead or slightly higher. Be aware of what your neck is doing. In order to keep everything tight, retract and elevate the scapula.
Now, don't confuse this with trying to maintain a vertical posture. It's not like a ball squat, where you try to keep your spine ramrod straight, like a chair back. If you do that, you'll fall down. You will fold a bit on the descent, basically bending over, but at the hip joint. So allow the angle of your torso to change, just don't round your back, droop your neck, unlock your shoulders, or look down.
4. Bounce out of the hole. "When you master that bounce, you'll really take off in gains," Olympic silver medalist and coach Tom Hirtz told me. This applies in varying degrees to all squats and the snatch. It means learning where to stop on the descent and begin the ascent. Stop too soon, and you will perform only a partial squat, emphasizing upper glutes and hamstrings, and a legitimate OHS will be impossible. Stop too far down, and the squatting mechanism is completed, so major muscles will lose tension, and it's much more difficult to initiate the ascent. The goal is to stop descending when tension is still tight.
Focus on feeling it in your thighs, especially quadriceps, and think of your hip flexors as spring loaded. By shifting your focus from taking your cue from the glutes to the hip flexors, you'll get a faster cue from your nervous system and be better able to detect the "bounce" point. You'll also consciously engage your anterior muscles. This is important because most people are trained to focus on engaging their posterior muscles in learning the basic (back) squat, but the OHS is more of a front squat exercise than back, so by focusing on the glutes instead of the hip flexors, your body is more likely to follow the neuromuscular pathways you've set up for the back squat than to engage the bio mechanics necessary to maintain an overhead press while executing a squat. This means that you're likely to naturally fall into the pattern of leaning forward, which is what you do with a bar lying across your shoulders, and flex your elbows, which will lead to you tipping forward and possibly dumping the bar.
5. Use your wrists and hands. It takes every muscle involved in the OHS to maintain the proper trajectory of the bar for balance. The bar should be situated in line with a point just behind the ears. As the body moves through the vertical plane, each joint must make slight adjustments to maintain this fixed point. Be actively aware of what your wrists and hands are doing, for they are primarily responsible for holding and positioning the bar, so hold onto it! The fine-tuning points on this grip may mean adjusting throughout the movement, so that the fingers extend slightly and the bar rolls out toward the fingertips as the body becomes closer to the ground. This is the opposite of what would happen if you were buffeting or catching an object overhead when you hit the bottom.
6. Push with your feet. Your feet are your foundation. Assume your starting position by positioning your feet first. Your stance should be slightly wider than your shoulders, toes angled out. Note that if you're tall, and your stance is too narrow, you're going to have balance problems, so experiment until you find a secure width that you don't struggle in. Be sure your shoes have firm soles and allow the foot bed to fully extend. Throughout the movement, be actively aware of the load on your feet, and when you transfer into the bounce, push your feet "into the floor."
Workout
Press
Find a NEW 1RM
Then
"Mini" MetCon
3 rounds of:
500M Row
20 - Box Jumps
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TITANFIT: Friday 090403
