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…

Farewell Rene!

As many of you may have heard, Rene and Kyle are going to be moving to Roseville soon to be closer to both of their families.  For the last six years Rene has been coaching at the Sweat Shop as well as competing on Team Sweat Shop at the NorCal…

Hydration Supplements

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Last weekend we got a little glimpse as to what the summer will be like in the upcoming months. As many of us know the east bay summers tend to be VERY HOT, so we need to prepare for the upcoming heat as best as we can. As CrossFitters most…

Spring Fling

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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). There are a couple of things that…

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…

Community: The Real Fitness X-Factor

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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…

Quadricep Recovery and 18.5 Video…..Almost!

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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,…

CrossFit Open Intramural Wrap Up

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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,…