Weekly WOD Overview – 8/13/18

Monday A.) 2 Clean & Jerks on the minute for 12 minutes Rx'd folks start light and gradually add as you go.  ADV. folks (those of you that have been doing olympic lifts for over a year) start as close to 75% of your 1RM as possible, or…

Jacqueline and Monique Finish Top 10 in the World!

Big Congrats to Jacqueline and Monique, who we had representing the Shop this past week at the 2018 CrossFit Games! It was a tough and grueling set of events but, more so than past years, I think this year, including the Open and Qualifier…

Competing Vs. Training

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What kind of mindset do you have when you walk into the gym? Is your goal to always go as fast, or as heavy as possible? Or, do you want to get better at a specific movement or skill regardless of time or loading? The approach you take to your…

Leader Board Challenge & Upcoming Raffle

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7 weeks ago I put the challenge out there to you guys to see how much movement we could get on the leader board. Here's who got up on the leader board, or moved up (and the respective workout/exercise) in the last 7 weeks: Taneya - 1 mile…

Sweat Shop BBQ – Sunday Aug. 19th – 12:00pm @ Heather Farms

The Sweat Shop BBQ is coming up next Sunday Aug.19th, 12:00pm at Heather Farms Park in Walnut Creek!  Bring the kids, bring your spouse or significant other, bring whoever!  Sweat Shop will be providing the drinks and meat, you guys just bring…

WOD Review 8/6/18

Monday Like we've been doing for the past few weeks, for this week's skill session, there will be different options for you depending on where you stand with overall skill. For today, the skill session will be geared towards getting your handstand…

Weekly WOD Insights 7/30/18

Before You Start Reading this don't Forget to stay posted on all the CrossFit Games Action as we have TWO athletes (Mo and Jacqueline) competing at the games this week!! Monday I like starting the week off with simple workouts. Something that…

Brown Rice Vs. White Rice

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When it comes to the world of nutrition things are constantly changing. Food X is healthy, food X is unhealthy. Food X is the new super food, food X is actually useless. Its almost impossible to stay current with all the dietary trends because…

Weekly WOD Insights 7/23/18

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Rise and shine, ready to grind! New week brings a new life. Let's get it! Building off of my recent post, there are plenty of options of "REDOs" this week. There are two exact WODS we did previously as well as a couple with similar formats that…