Spring Fling
This past weekend I had the pleasure of competing with Britney at the Spring Fling competition in San Rafael (Marin County, about 45 minutes away) under the team name Gainz in Alderaan Places (Star Wars Pun).
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Welcome Bradlee and Anthony!
Congrats to the newest editions to the Sweat Shop families! The boy train is running strong in 2018! Brian and Cathy Kenny welcomed their first born, Bradlee, aka BK Broiler Jr, into this world on March 23 weighing 8lbs 7 ounces! Tony and Bridget Kafouros welcomed their baby boy, Anthony,[…]
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Community: The Real Fitness X-Factor
Let me start with a disclaimer. This post isn’t just in support of the business model (CrossFit/group fintess) that I happen to operate. This article, from Breaking Muscle, rings especially true to me lately as I’ve recently become much more motivated to train being a part of a “community”…. of[…]
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Quadricep Recovery and 18.5 Video…..Almost!
In CrossFit we tend to use the squat fairly frequently, in a variety of forms. Whether it’s the air squat, back or front squat, squat clean or squat snatch, or wallballs, we see the squat show up a lot in CrossFit! This is with good reason, because it is one[…]
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CrossFit Open Intramural Wrap Up
As the dust is just barely settling on the 2018 CrossFit Open many of us are now looking forward to getting back to working out just for the sake of working out. And before we get to those that will be moving on to the next round of qualifiers, here’s[…]
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18.4 Highlight Vid!
Great job Sweat Shoppers! Another outstanding round of performances in the books for 18.4! The combo of deadlifts, handstand pushups/pushups and walks were brutal for sure. It was awesome watching a lot of you go for your first handstand pushup! We’ll see what Castro cooks up for us this final week.[…]
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Farewell Ryan!
Next week Ryan will be leaving Walnut Creek, and California for Omaha Nebraska! I feel fortunate to have gotten to know Ryan and it’s been really fun having him at the Sweat Shop for the past year. I also feel fortunate that Ryan trained at the Sweat Shop for[…]
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18.3 Highlight Video
18.3 is in the books, this was a fun workout to watch for sure! Great job to everyone who competed this past week and a big shout out to those of you who worked hard on getting those muscle ups. Whether you got a muscle up or not, the effort and atmosphere[…]
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I’m very excited to announce the arrival of James and Melaney’s first child, Kea Julie Barber! She was born January 24th weighing in at 6lbs. 15oz. and measuring 19″ long. Mom and baby are both doing well and we looking forward to meeting another baby and the latest addition to[…]
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CrossFit Open Pre-Season – Sweat Shop vs. CrossFit Walnut Creek – Starts Thurs. Jan. 11th
With the 2018 CrossFit Open right around the corner, we have setup another year of our Preseason Open workouts with CrossFit Walnut Creek. This is just a fun way to get in some of the past CrossFit Open workouts, in preparation for the upcoming Open. Just like the past few[…]
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