Practicing what he Preaches

Posted on June 30, 2008 by Jason

Many of you don’t know who Bruce is, but he is one of Albany CrossFit’s first members. He has been coming in on a daily basis and pushing himself to learn these movements and improve his fitness. When he first started he couldn’t do one pushup, now he can do many with perfect form. Brett constantly e-mails me and gives me wonderful feedback on Bruce’s improvement, but when I woke up this morning with a message from Brett I was worried that something was wrong. Turns out Brett was so excited he couldn’t wait to e-mail me, he had to call for this news…Bruce got his first Pullup! Bruce you are amazing, you inspire people at work (he is a minister) and you inspire people at Albany CrossFit. Once you hit that first elusive pullup it is like the flood gates open, many more will soon be following. Great job!

It looked like rain all morning, but when the nooners went outside the sun was bright and hot! Fun little partner WOD, don’t want to spoil the fun for the evening folks, just bring your running shoes. Everyone was awesome, Dona has shown some super improvement on her overhead squats (spoiler alert). Although she still has a hard time with weight, she now gets her booty to the ball every time with PVC, she is stabilizing the mid-line much better.

I would like to run a CFT (CrossFit Total) this Thursday evening. The CFT is your max Squat, Overhead Press, and Deadlift. If you plan on attending class on Thursday please let me know ahead of time if you can, and also let me know what you consider to be your max lifts and I will help create a warm-up for you accordingly. I will just be there from 430pm until 7:30pm, so come in when you can and you will be on your own to warm-up and get ready to hit your lifts. You will have 3 attempts to work up to your max weight on each lift, a failed attempt counts as one of the 3. If anyone knows they can hangout and help me spot and judge that would be great. I’ll have 3 racks set up and have the 2 big racks for a warm-up area. Feel free to ask me any questions, should be a fun time.