Coach Paul attended the 2 day CrossFit Olympic Lifting Certification given by Mike Burgener this past weekend. This is an important certification given by one of the best Olympic Lifting coaches out there. Congratulations and thank you to Coach Paul for taking the time and spending his money increasing his knowledge and skill base [Read More] …

The Saturday Chaos class was jammed and jammin’! Banded lateral walks, Double leg hurdle jumps, Banded “Monster” walks, Tire jumps, and, of course, Rowing. Those enjoying the workout were Paul and Ashley, Jeff and Kyle, both Sue Ps, Kevin Z, Pete H, Jess G, and the return of Jenn T!

Record turnout for the Monday WOD, which was “Little Eva“, but should have been named “Little Evil”: 5 rounds for time of 400m run, 15 KB Swings (70# men/ 53# women), and 15 Pull Ups. Ouchie [Read More] …

The evening class came in and took one last swipe at FRAN (Sonia B, John E, Tim D and Paul J).

I would like to acknowledge a huge achievement by Pat W (I didn’t notice this until I was posting on the leader board). Pat W did FRAN on 2/17/10 with a time of 11:53 — 3 months later, his time today was 6:47!

With our master webmaster off in Costa Rica looking for the cast of “Lost”, we stalled a bit on our postings, so now we are making up for lost time: on Monday, March 29th, we had a back breaker of a workout: 5 rounds of 10 Deadlifts, 10 Power Cleans, 10 Front Squats, 10 Push Jerks, and 10 Back Squats, with a 2 minute rest in between each round. Brutal. Everyone rose to the challenge, with no quitting, whining or crying (but plenty of sweating and groaning). Mike D, Matt B, Frank B, Joe G, Paul J, Justine L, Eric S, and John M featured.

Our newest coach, Paul D, attended the CrossFit Level I Certification this weekend at CrossFit Watertown. Paul is also planning on attending the weightlifting, power lifting and football certifications in the coming months, and will be an excellent resource (and coach) to have in the gym!

The 10am Chaos went outdoors for the first time this year! Woo hoo! We finally got to take it outside. Threw in a couple of surprise runs to the CrossFit sign and back, along with the assorted decline pushups, KB exercises, box jumps, and what not. Great to see some of the newer members turn out for this one: Frank R, Matt A, Ashley and Paul, and Vilma O.

The Saturday morning Poker game was in high gear, with Amy F, Kathy K, Larry C, Rob V, Marianne U, Paul D and Jen L wheelin’ and dealin’. After 20 minutes of organized mayhem, Rob J was his first pot, with 4 Queens. Blood, sweat and tears all around. Congrats Rob, well done.

Paul D, Dave S and Mark O will be representing CFC at Yale University’s Battle of the Badges 2010, Saturday, February 20th, 2010. The contest is from 10am – 2pm in the Payne Whitney Gymnasium (Fitness Center). If you see them in the gym, wish them luck, or come down to Yale on the 20th and root them on! For more information, please click here.

We may have to change the name of the game to Stud Poker if this continues, as all nine “player” today were guys! These studs (Paul D, Rob J and his son Bill, Larry C, Mike D, Matt G, Eric B, John “The Urbanator” and Our Man Dan B) went after it, and when the dust settled, Eric and John each held Royal Flushes (any time you get a “double” — same exact card, as we use several decks — you may play the double card as a Wild card). So, we had Sudden Death: each cut to a card, with the high card winning the $9 pot [Read More] …